Louie (Sub for King John) and Kaitlyn Travel to John A. Logan's Statue and Barnes Jewish Hospital

Louie and Kaitlyn's Adventures to

John A. Logan in Murphysboro, Illinois,

Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri &

my house in Marion, Illinois

March 20, 2015

Round Trip:  299.4 miles
King John's Total Miles:  1208.4 miles
Louie's Total Miles: 335.4 miles

Longitude and Latitude Coordinates:
John A. Logan Statue:  37.4546 degrees N, 89.2058 degrees W
Barnes Jewish Hospital:  38.6359 degrees N, 90.2643 degrees W

Order of traveling:  Wham to Murphysboro to Wham to my house to Barnes Jewish Hospital to my house to Wham

General John A. Logan

Louie, who was substitution for King John, traveled with me to the General John A. Logan statue that is located in front of Murphysboro Middle School. This statue is of one of the most iconic images for General John A. Logan.  General John A. Logan was born in what is now Murphysboro, Illinois.  He one of General Grant's officers, an Illinois Senator, and the Founder of Memorial Day as a national holiday. General John A. Logan was a supporter of the South and slavery, but had a change of heart and became one of the Union's Civil War heroes.

The author, Gary Ecelbarger, of Black Jack Logan:  An Extraordinary Life in Peace and War, stated that John A. Logan "may be the most noteworthy nineteenth-century American to go unnoticed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."

Source:  http://www.loganmuseum.org

Louie's next stop is Barnes Jewish Hospital with a detour to my house so that I could ride with my parents to St. Louis, Missouri.

Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis

The pictures below depict my time I spent at Barnes Jewish Hospital while my uncle had surgery. Robert Barnes (the man pictured in the statue) came to St. Louis in 1830 as a "penniless orphan." He had died a wealthy man because he worked his way up from a store clerk to a bank president.  He was known as a visionary.  Because he had none to give his fortune to when he passed away in 1892, he left $850,000 to build "a modern general hospital for sick and injured persons, without distinction of creed." Barnes had trustees that were businessmen, and left the proposal hospital under the care of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, which made wise donations to aid the poor. Before Barnes hospital was opened on December 7, 1914.  It had affiliation with Washington University and would be a place to train medical students from the university.  Barnes is known for its excellent patient care and innovative treatments. 

In 1918, Barnes Hospital had more than 700 patients admitted during the Spanish influenza epidemic, but had a very low death rate of less than four percent. Barnes Hospital is home to the development of using x-ray to image the gallbladder in 1925, the first surgeon to successfully remove an entire lung, being one of the first hospitals to treat diabetic patients with insulin, the research that the Culex mosquito caused encephalitis, being one of the first hospitals to install a complete electronic data processing system, the first hospital to paint the wall green, the third hospital in the country to use the heart-lung bypass machine during open-heart surgery, the first kidney transplant in the Midwest, innovative burn treatments, one of five hospitals in 1975 in the U.S. that performed bone marrow transplants, be the fourth largest private hospital in the country in 1979, the development of the PET (positron emission tomography) scanner, first heart and liver transplants in 1985, the nation's first laparoscopic nephrectomy (removal of a kidney through minimally invasive technique) in 1990, the first nerve transplant in 1993, and the first adult liver transplant using a living donor unrelated to the recipient in 1996.

The Jewish Hospital had many impressive innovations and activities, such as the first surgeon to use rubber gloves while operating, the Modern Hospital of the Year award from the American Hospital Association in 1927, the use of audible nurse call systems with speakers in each patient room, being one of the first in the country to treat patients with penicillin in 1944, the first city to have a radioisotope laboratory in 1950, being the first to treat tumors at or near the skin surface with a combination of hypothermia and radiation treatments, being the region's first multidisciplinary center for treatment of breast, colorectal, lymphoma, thoracic, and head-and-neck cancers, the first successful vitro fertilization in Missouri in 1983, St. Louis's first Multiple Birth Center, being the first hospital in the city to have a 40-hour work week and offer Social Security to its employees, and renowned orthopedic surgeons for St. Louis's athletes on professional sports teams such as the Cardinals (baseball and football) and St. Louis Blues hockey team.

Barnes Hospital and Jewish Hospital merged in January of 1996.

Source:  http://www.barnesjewish.org/about/history







In the lobby of Barnes Jewish Hospital is the wall that explains some of the amazing history of both Barnes Hospital and Jewish Hospital (now Barnes Jewish Hospital).

Above:  Pictures of Louie and me next to Robert Barnes and the wall of information.

Below:  The wall of information.

Neurology and Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit waiting room.  Louie is doing homework with me while we wait.








Left:  Louie next to the cafeteria sign.  If you ever have to go to Barnes, definitely stop by the cafeteria...the food is delicious.

Right:  Louie on my new stress squeezy ball.

Pictured to the Left and Right:  My father keeping Louie entertained.

Below:  The bridge that you must cross in order to get from the parking lot into the building (which is much safer than trying to cross the busy road that the bridge is over).  It was always this pretty!