{{Short description|Teaching hospital in Ponce, Puerto Rico}} {{Use American English|date=December 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Infobox hospital | name = Hospital Damas | org_group = Hermanas de la Caridad San Vicente de Paul | logo = Hospital Damas logo.png | logo_size = 170 | image = Hospital Damas, Ponce By-pass, Barrio Canas Urbano, Ponce, PR (DSC05042).jpg | image_alt = | caption = Hospital Damas, on the Ponce Bypass, Ponce, Puerto Rico | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_caption = <!-- Optional. Gives a small caption under the map such as "Shown in region, country" --> | location = Ponce | country = Puerto Rico | coordinates = {{Coord|17|59|49.68|N|66|37|03.98|W|region:US-PR|display=inline,title}} | address = PR-2, km 212.3, Ponce Bypass #2213, Ponce, Puerto Rico | funding = Non-profit | type = Teaching<ref>[http://www.ushospital.info/Teaching.htm#Puerto%20Rico ''Teaching Hospitals in the United States by state.''] Retrieved 12 December 2011. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111211012117/http://www.ushospital.info/Teaching.htm#Puerto%20Rico Archived.]</ref> | speciality = <!-- if devoted to a speciality (ie not a broad spectrum of specialities) and Type=Specialist/Teaching --> | standards = <!-- optional if no national standards --> | emergency = <!-- UK/IR/HK/SG: Yes/No, CA/IL/US: I/II/III/IV/V for Trauma certification level --> | helipad = <!-- Yes, No, or use "Template:Airport codes" with p=n. Only list if verifiable, leave blank if unknown. --> | affiliation = <!-- 'None' or Medical School and University affiliations (medical or paramedical) --> | patron = <!-- 'None' or the individual who acts as the hospital patron --> | network = <!-- Hospital network, non-owner --> | beds = 331<ref name=premio>[http://www.periodicolaperla.com/premio-nacional-para-el-hospital-damas/ ''Premio nacional para el Hospital Damas.''] Marie Estela Cestero. La Perla del Sur. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 27 June 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.hospital-data.com/hospitals/HOSPITAL-DAMAS-INC-PONCE.html ''HOSPITAL DAMAS INC - PONCE, PR.''] Retrieved 12 December 2011.</ref> | founded = 1863<ref name=premio/><ref name="suagm.edu">[http://www.suagm.edu/umet/biblioteca/Reserva_Profesores/maritza_acevedo_nurs_230_101/trasfondo_historico_de_la_enfermeria_en_Puerto_Rico/Acev_M_Nurs-230_enfermeria_PR.pdf ''Trasfondo Historico de la Enfermeria en Puerto Rico.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416181918/http://www.suagm.edu/umet/biblioteca/Reserva_Profesores/maritza_acevedo_nurs_230_101/trasfondo_historico_de_la_enfermeria_en_Puerto_Rico/Acev_M_Nurs-230_enfermeria_PR.pdf |date=16 April 2014 }} Maritza Acevedo. Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez. Page 22. Retrieved 12 December 2011.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5t8-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201 ''Legislacion Ultramarina, Volume 2.''] Joaquín Rodríguez San Pedro. Madrid. 1865. Page 201. Retrieved 12 December 2011.</ref> | closed = <!-- Use if defunct, please also add to Category:Defunct hospitals --> | website = http://www.hospitaldamas.com/ | other_links = <!-- Creates ""See also" field --> }}
'''Hospital Damas''', formerly called '''Santo Asilo de Damas''', is a 331-bed teaching hospital<ref>[http://www.ushospital.info/Teaching.htm#Puerto%20Rico ''Teaching Hospitals in the United States by state.''] Retrieved 12 December 2011. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111211012117/http://www.ushospital.info/Teaching.htm#Puerto%20Rico Archived.]</ref> in Ponce, Puerto Rico.<ref name=premio/>
== History == Hospital Damas was founded in 1863<ref name=premio/> as Santo Asilo de Damas by Sister Francisca Paz Cabrera, and it was attended to by the group known as ''Siervas de Maria'' (Servants of Mary) since 1891.<ref>Gerardo Alberto Hernández-Aponte, ''La salud y la labor social: ministerio de las Siervas de María Ministras de los Enfermos en Puerto Rico (1887-1921)''. Con prólogo de Norma Valle. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2013, pp. 51-55.</ref><ref name="suagm.edu">[http://www.suagm.edu/umet/biblioteca/Reserva_Profesores/maritza_acevedo_nurs_230_101/trasfondo_historico_de_la_enfermeria_en_Puerto_Rico/Acev_M_Nurs-230_enfermeria_PR.pdf ''Trasfondo Historico de la Enfermeria en Puerto Rico.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416181918/http://www.suagm.edu/umet/biblioteca/Reserva_Profesores/maritza_acevedo_nurs_230_101/trasfondo_historico_de_la_enfermeria_en_Puerto_Rico/Acev_M_Nurs-230_enfermeria_PR.pdf |date=16 April 2014 }} Maritza Acevedo. Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez. Page 22. Retrieved 12 December 2011.</ref> The 1913 work by Eduardo Neumann Gandia ''"Verdadera y Autentica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce"'' states that the name of the group of ladies that founded the institution and cared for the sick was ''Asociación de Señoras Damas del Santo Asilo de Ponce'', roughly "Association of Gentle Ladies of the Holy Asylum of Ponce".<ref>Eduardo Neuman Gandia. ''Verdadera y Autentica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce.'' 1913. Reprinted 1987. p. 109.</ref> Ernesto Colón Yordán served as its medical director from 1953 until his designation as Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico in 1968.<ref name="elmundo1968">Ramón Rodríguez. "Historial Miembros Gabinete de Ferré." ''El Mundo''. 20 December 1968, p. 90. [https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/elmundo/?a=d&d=mndo19681220-01.1.90] [https://web.archive.org/web/20250610212756/https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/elmundo/?a=d&d=mndo19681220-01.1.90 Archived.]</ref>
The hospital was located in downtown Ponce but on 6 May 1973 it moved to its current location at a new 10-story tower on the north side of the Ponce Bypass.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20250120155200/https://hospitaldamas.com/damascms/index.php/nuestra-historia ''Nuestra Historia.''] Hospital Damas. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2012.</ref> The original location of '''''Damas''''', as the hospital is oftentimes called, is now home to Parque Urbano Dora Colón Clavell.<ref>Carmelo Rosario Natal. ''Ponce En Su Historia Moderna: 1945-2002.'' Published by Secretaría de Cultura y Turismo of the Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 2003. p. 253.</ref>
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== External links == * [http://servitesisters.org/index.php Servants of Mary]
{{Ponce, Puerto Rico}}
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