THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE RESOLUTION

INTRODUCED BY FLECK, BAKER, BENNINGHOFF, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, CLYMER, DALEY, DiGIROLAMO, ELLIS, EVERETT, GABLER, GEORGE, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GROVE, HARRIS, HEFFLEY, HENNESSEY, HESS, HICKERNELL, M. K. KELLER, KILLION, KORTZ, MAHONEY, MAJOR, MANN, MILLARD, MOUL, OBERLANDER, O'NEILL, PAYNE, PEIFER, PICKETT, RAPP, READSHAW, REED, ROCK, ROSS, SAINATO, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SONNEY, STERN, SWANGER, THOMAS, TOBASH, VEREB, VULAKOVICH, GOODMAN, YOUNGBLOOD, MIRABITO, CONKLIN AND COHEN, OCTOBER 24, 2011

INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, OCTOBER 24, 2011  

A RESOLUTION

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the J.C.

Blair Memorial Hospital.

WHEREAS, J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital was founded in 1910 by

Kate Fisher Blair in memory of her late husband, John Chalmers

Blair; and

WHEREAS, The hospital is located on what is known as

"Hospital Hill" overlooking the rural community of Huntingdon,

Pennsylvania; and

WHEREAS, Kate Fisher Blair appointed a commission to develop

the project; and

WHEREAS, The commission was the forerunner of the

institution's board of directors; and

WHEREAS, Through the years, the board has been composed of

community members from business, banking, law, medicine, and

other careers; and

WHEREAS, In 1946, the board determined that the expansion of

the physical plant was essential; and

WHEREAS, The hospital took a huge leap forward with its first

large expansion, more than doubling in size, updating

technologies and creating room for future growth; and

WHEREAS, In the late 1960s, planning was underway to expand

the emergency department, to add an acute care wing and to

attach a county-owned nursing care facility to the hospital, all

of which was completed in 1972; and

WHEREAS, Projects in the 1980s and 1990s have brought the

hospital to its present configuration, with a campus that

includes physicians' offices, education classrooms, physical

therapy facilities and a helipad; and

WHEREAS, In the year 2001, J.C. Blair became part of the

parent organization, J.C. Blair Health System; and

WHEREAS, Currently, J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital has an

active medical staff of nearly 40 physicians, over 485 employees

and over 40 active volunteers; and

WHEREAS, J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital provides care 24 hours

a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, including inpatient

services in the following: medical, surgical, intensive care,

obstetric, gynecological, pediatric and psychiatric; and

WHEREAS, Outpatient services include emergency care,

ambulatory surgery, endoscopy, lab, radiology, behavioral

health, cardiopulmonary, wound healing, occupational health and

outpatient therapy; and

WHEREAS, Presently, J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital is in the

planning stages of an expansion and renovation of the Emergency

Department and outpatient facilities; therefore be it

RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives commemorate the

100th anniversary of the founding of the J.C. Blair Memorial

Hospital.