President Lesser
Jack Lesser was president from 1956 to 1973.
Jack Lesser was president from 1956 to 1973.
By 1952, Deborah starts to transition from a tuberculosis sanatorium and begins to determine the future direction of the hospital.
7-year-old thanks Deborah and replies, “I am a strong healthy boy again.”
In 1957, the name Deborah Hospital emerges to convey the expanded medical mission.
Charles Bailey, M.D., directed cardiovascular surgery at Deborah and his methods were the focus of a 1957 Time magazine article. The first U.S. physician to repair a hole in the wall between the two sides of the heart, Dr. Bailey was born in Wanamassa, N.J., and educated at Rutgers University,..Read More
$100 donation endows a Kaddish memorial, $1,000 dedicates a bed and $5,000 dedicates a room in perpetuity. These suggested donations were quite generous in the 1950s when the average yearly cost of living was $3,700.
On July 28, 1958, Dr. Charles Bailey performed Deborah’s first heart surgeries on three-year old Bill DiMartino and Dora Hansen.
Deborah’s first cardiac catheterization was performed by Vladir Maranhao, M.D., in July 1959.
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