It was 1919. America was ending World War I,
but in Dayton, Ohio a new beginning was underway. Anna Barney Gorman,
a philanthropist and community activist, had purchased a building on
Chapel Street and was making plans for a community center to offer health
services, education and recreation for North Dayton residents. Within
a year, Anna Barney Gorman opened the Barney Community Center, which
provided neighborhood residents free clinics, occupational therapy classes,
a milk station and lunch program.
Throughout her life, Mrs. Gorman continued to
be active and interested in the progress of the community center and
lived to see it develop into the only convalescent hospital in the area
designed to care for polio victims. To reflect the center's expanded
mission, the name was changed to the Barney Convalescent Hospital in
1947.
With the advent of the Salk and Sabin vaccines
in the mid-1950s, the need for a strictly convalescent hospital diminished.
About that same time, a new need emerged--the need for a pediatric hospital
to care for seriously ill and injured children.
It was 1919. America was ending World War I,
but in Dayton, Ohio a new beginning was underway. Anna Barney Gorman,
a philanthropist and community activist, had purchased a building on
Chapel Street and was making plans for a community center to offer health
services, education and recreation for North Dayton residents. Within
a year, Anna Barney Gorman opened the Barney Community Center, which
provided neighborhood residents free clinics, occupational therapy classes,
a milk station and lunch program.
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