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.-- • ' ̂ . 809 N. FRONT STREET McHENRY. ILLINOIS 60050 TELEPHONE 815/385-5700 BEST WISHES PAOCS S is proven On Sept. 4,1956 McHenry Hospital, a 22-bed acute care not-for-profit hospital opened its doors on the lower floor of the McHenry Medical Group building at 308 S. Green St. Much of the equipment for the new hospital was donated by civic-minded members of the community. The clinic and the hospital shared X-ray f and laboratory facilities initially. Money was hard to come by in those early days. Maurice Gladstone, the father of one of the founding physicians, contributed about 75 peercent of the initial investment for the hospital. Doctors Lee Gladstone and George Alvary signed personal notes to buy the needed equipment and to mortgage. lids photo is one of the most collection. It shows the two-story, 24,000 professional arts building in the forground. center complex, opened in Jane, 1184, in the NIMC now serves the community from its new intersection of Bull Valley Road and Route SI. Starting any new business venture is difficult and the hospital was no exception, said Gladstone. "On more than one occasion we had to go borrow the money to meet the payroll." Once, Sangston Hettler, a farmer on Route 31, and a friend of Gladstone's, loaned him the money to pay his employees. This situation happened many times, and each time a lender was found. "There was no way we could have survived without money from outside sources," said Gladstone. Even with the opening of the original hospital, McHenry County and neighboring communities were still 100 hospital beds short of what was considered adequate for the population at that time. In Sep­ tember, 1957, the hospital began a fund drive for an addition, which would include a number of beds designated for use as a maternity ward. The community responded with an Cowtinmd on pog« 3 ) ALTH IN . v % EZIecrtricGU ar>d /VI&cht&r*c&U Contractors WE ARE PROUD TO HAVE BEEN A PART OF YOUR FUTURE'