Buckeye Valley News And Buckeye Review

Construction of Phoenix' new hospital
St. Monica's Hospital and Health Center will begin Nov. 15th according to Father Emmett, the "father" of the project. The location of the hospital is on a 14 acre tract between 5th and 7th avenues in Phoenix. It will be built at a cost of $400,000 and equipped at a cost of $55,000 by the Public Works Administration and leased for $1 a year to St. Monica's Hospital and Health Center, a non-profit corporation and non-denominational, headed by Father Emmett and composed of civic leaders. There will be an out patient wing with waiting rooms, examination rooms and consulting rooms and departments for eye, ear, nose and throat, dentistry, genito-urinary, tuberculosis and maternity cases. Room will be provided on the grounds for future construction of a nurses' home with the idea of instituting nurses' training and other expansions. The center is designed to furnish facilities for the needy of all nationalities. Provision for the construction obtained by Father Emmett in Washington brings to realization an objective set in 1936 when he established St. Monica's Mission at 7th Avenue and Sherman Street in a room 9 by 11 feet. The next year the Mission was moved into a remodeled barber shop and there it was expanded to include a maternity clinic and later a venereal disease and well-baby clinic. The untiring efforts of Father Emmett began to attract attention soon after the little mission was founded and when Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Phoenix in 1938, she requested a visit to the mission. A benefit for the above will be given at Litchfield Park in the Community Hall Friday, November 6 at 8 P. M. See Mrs. Nellie Long and Mrs. L. F. George for tickets in Buckeye and Mrs. Morris Vencill in Litchfield Park.