Hospital administrators examine a defibrillator machine at Clarkston’s Tri-State Memorial Hospital in this photo published in the May 3, 1970, Lewiston Tribune. Pictured are, from left, William J. Yeats, administrator at Tri-State, Leonard B. Ellis, a member of the Twin County United Fund Dread Diseases Fund Committee, and Sister Helen Frances, administrator at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Lewiston. According to an accompanying story by reporter Sarah Rosenbaum, money from the Dread Diseases Fund was used to purchase a defibrillator and monitoring screen for each hospital with each set costing about $1,700. This photo was submitted by Rose Bunch, of Clarkston, who reports she helped start the first coronary care unit at St. Joseph’s (now St. Joseph Regional Medical Center). Bunch is a retired registered nurse who worked for 44 years at St. Joseph.
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