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Beginning in about 2015, La Rabida began to see an increase in patient numbers, especially babies younger than one year, reflecting the decrease in pediatric services at other hospitals. From 2015 to 2017, the admitted children who were younger than one year old increased from 19 to 40%. The average
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From the start, La Rabida has been open to children "regardless of race, religion or ability to pay". In the beginning, the sanatarium dealt with all of the diseases that are typical of city slums, such as typhoid, diphtheria, and scarlet fever. In the summers, women were encouraged to bring their
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With advances in medicine and improved living conditions, emphasis at the hospital shifted to treating children with heart conditions. In 1932, La Rabida became the first sanitarium in the midwest for children with rheumatic fever and its frequent complications, including rheumatic heart disease.
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In the 1910s, the original building had become rundown and it became difficult to hire nurses due to World War I. The woman's board opened an infant welfare station at Eighty-third Street and Bond Avenue, and a day nursery in the stockyard district on South
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Medicaid payments (Medicaid covers a majority of its patients). It is a small hospital that does not perform surgeries or have acute care facilities. Instead it considers itself a "step-down"
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An outpatient wing was added to the south of the main building in 1953, named the
Gertrude Frank Pick children's center. Pick was the mother of Albert Pick, Jr., a La Rabida board chairman and the president of Pick Hotels Corporation. A research wing, the
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Chicago medical schools, allowing their doctors to act as consultants and medical students to train in the sanitarium, and in 1957, La Rabida became an affiliate of the
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