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Brad Clorie drove three hours from Kissimmee, Florida, to attend the Jackson Health System's 100th anniversary celebration on Monday – and for good reason.
"I was the first African-born Jackson Memorial Hospital," Clorie said. "It's exciting, I'm honored."
At an event in Jackson's Alamo Park, the community honored how much the hospital has grown since its inception in 1918. At the time, Jackson was calling Miami City Hospital . There were only 13 beds and a handful of employees. Now, the hospital system employs 12,000 full-time health professionals.
To commemorate this story, the hospital management and the community have buried a time capsule with historical artifacts that represent the arch of the institution's history: the armband of the hospital. a patient and the prescription bottle; a doll dressed as a nurse; a 1930s surgeon's sewing kit.
The event also celebrated the hundreds of employees with free food, photo booths and massages.
Lourdes Barquin has been working at Jackson for 31 years. She noted that even though the technology at the hospital has progressed over time, its mission remains the same: take care of the patients.
She remembered a time when a former patient approached her 10 years after their first meeting. The patient reminded her that she had found a strange ball in her chest and Barquin arranged for her to meet at the Jackson Breast Health Center.
"[She said] Thanks to you, I'm alive because it was breast cancer. And I received my treatment and my chemo and so on. She continues to thank me saying thank you thank you, Barquin said. "So that kind of thing is very rewarding."
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