abstract:In 1873, Captain John Bertram gave a gift of $25,000 in cash, plus a brick mansion on Charter Street to create Salem Hospital. From the original building on Charter Street Salem Hospital moved to the current location on Highland Avenue in 1917.
The NorthShore Regional MedicalCenter in Slidell, Louisiana, just outside New Orleans, remained fully operational with 174 beds, said Steve Campanini, spokesman for Tenet HealthCare, which operates it.
He spent much of his time in the past fifteen years on a charitable venture that required as much tact as moxie integrating the NorthShore Health System and Long Island Jewish MedicalCenter into a single enterprise that now includes fifteen hospitals.