--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Thornton, Newton collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 24 number: 1 published: 1920-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Thornton, Newton, "Idaho Falls Hospital," *Improvement Era* 24, no. 1 (November 1920): 66–67.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2401unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2401unse start_page: 66 end_page: 67 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2401unse publication_year: 1920 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Idaho Falls Hospital Idaho Falls Hospital By H. Newton Thornton The building activities of the Church, nowhere find better expression, except in the building of temples to the living God, than in the construction of hospitals for the relief of human suffering. The records of the Master's lifeon earth show us that a large part of his time was devoted to the care of the sick and infirm, and surely we can do no greater work than follow in his footsteps. The new Latter-day Saints hospital now in course of erection at Idaho Falls, Idaho, at an approximate cost of $400,000, is one of the several hos- pital projects contemplated by the Church.This hospital will serve a long felt want in the Southern part of Idaho, and especially to the Latter-day Saints, being so far away from our hospitals in Utah, and it will also offer educational facilities to our young ladies, in that neighborhood, who are fitted, and desire to enter the nurses training school. The building is situ- ated on the banks of the Snake river, on rising ground, in a beautiful loca- tion of the city, the site extending some six hundred feet from the rear of the building to the river, which will form an ideal garden site, over which a southern breeze comes at times of the year, and will afford ample all room for extension of the building in the future. The general plan of the building is T shape, and has received most careful consideration, both as lo arrangement of rooms and departments, and will conform to the most recent developments in hospital planning. Numerous conferences have been held with a large building committee, composed of the presidents of six stakes of Zion, in that section, and the architect with some of the committee visited many large hospitals in the East before final plans were adopted. Bishop E. T. Ashton of Salt Lake City is in charge of the construction work, which l>a> progressed rapidly under his direction, and it is expected that the building will be enclosed before winter. Idaho Falh, Ida. 1 £llllllllll1lllllllllllllllllllMlllllllllllllllllllllinilllllllllllllllllllMIIIII1llllllllllllllllllllllllllll1IMIIIIIIIIIMIIIUIII1llllllll1IIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!f HEALTHY NEW I am the Tuberculosis Christmas Seal I I am the Tuberculosis Christmas seal! The careless eye sees me as a little patch of merry colors, with I rough edges and a sticky back. The careful eye sees in me a cour- | ageous Knight, valiant for Health. I Before my unrelenting blows the wilderness I am the Pioneer. | of Ignorance, Indifference, and Misinformation is being conquered I In its place I am erecting the edifice of Enlightenment, set in broad | fields of Energy, basking in the beneficient rays of Knowledge. 1 I am snatching the veils of Superstition from the eyes of those j | who refuse to see. j I am blasting out the stopped up ears of those who refuse to ! | hear. \ ; In my strong hands I take the tender confiding hands of chil- j | dren and lead them into paths of Health Knowledge. 1 I send my ministers forth day after day, further and ever j | further into the dark realms of Inertia and Complacency. 1 Because