Beaver Island hospital and nursing-center notices, 1973

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Event

Date: circa 1973-07
Kind: Medical
Where: Beaver Island
Participants: Frank D. O’Donnell (patient) · Frank Neer (patient) · John L. "Mickey" Malloy (patient) · Gene Burke (patient)
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: healthcarecommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The July 1973 hospital notes list four island-connected patients: Frank O’Donnell at Grand Valley Nursing Center, Frank Neer at Mt. Sinai Hospital, John “Mickey” Malloy at Little Traverse Hospital, and Gene Burke at Kent Community Hospital after a move from Saginaw.

Evidence and limits

These are brief location notices, not medical charts. The article gives no diagnoses or treatment information; the “Gene Burke” name and “Edward E. Burke” address line are preserved as an unresolved source-level discrepancy.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, July 1973, “Hospital Notes.”
Lists Frank O'Donnell at Grand Valley Nursing Center, Frank Neer at Mt. Sinai Hospital, John “Mickey” Malloy at Little Traverse Hospital, and Gene Burke moved from Saginaw to Kent Community Hospital in Grand Rapids. It gives no diagnoses, admission dates, treatment records, or identity resolution for the Gene/Edward Burke naming discrepancy.
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Beaver Beacon, July 1973, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held eleven-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island hospital and nursing-center notices, 1973”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/july-1973-beaver-island-hospital-notes/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 1973, “Hospital Notes.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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