St. Barnabas' Hospital (聖バルナバ病院, Sei Barunaba byōin) is a hospital founded in 1873 that is located in Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is the oldest hospital of the Anglican Church in Japan.
Characteristics
The nearest station is Ōsaka Uehommachi Station. The hospital has long been committed to maternal health care and delivers more than 1,000 births a year.
This year he started to provide medical services at his house in Yorikichō, Nishi-ku, Osaka. He also studied Japanese.[2][3]
1874
Jan. - US Japan Missionary Clinic was opened at Umehommachi 7, Nishi-ku, Osaka.[3]
Dr. Laning treated more than a thousand patients for free in the half year after this clinic was opened. He also sold and lent many Christian books in Japanese, in Chinese, and in English.[1]
1877
Apr. - He established another clinic in the central Osaka, and the first clinic in Umehommachi became a branch.[1][3]
1878
He treated about 2.5 thousand patients at those clinics, and the bishop Channing Moore Williams reported his contribution to the headquarter in the United States.[1]
1880
Laning's medical works successfully developed, and doctors of the clinics argued to build a hospital in Osaka. They asked the US headquarter to send money for the hospital, and female working groups in New York promised to send money for the project.[1]
1883
Sep. - A new two-story hospital made by wood was completed at Kawaguchi-cho 8, and Dr. Laning became a president of the hospital. He officially named the hospital "St. Barnabas' hospital." A missionary of the US Episcopal Church, Theodosius Stevens Tyng supervised the construction of the hospital.[1]
1884
Apr. - Frances J. Shaw living in Osaka was recruited as a chief nurse.[1][3] This position was assigned to foreign women after several years.[1]
1885
Jun. - Shaw resigned the hospital. The number of personnels from the mission decreased, but staff staying the hospital kept their effort and the hospital was successfully developed.[1]
920 patients visited the hospital for 4,869 times, and 74 patients stayed at the hospital this year.[1]
The number of visiting patients increased to 8,224, and 88 patients stayed at the hospital this year.[1]
1913
Dr. Laning who had worked in Japan for almost 40 years returned to the United States because he got old, and his son became the second president of the hospital.
