Museum Propsal

Healthcare Hall of Fame Museum Proposal

I would first like to start my proposal with the evolution of the hospitals. Beginning by Christian nations, healthcare was performed in houses or buildings of worship, there weren’t any hospitals like there are today. They also didn’t have the kinds of medicine or cleanliness like we have today. They used herbal remedies the best way they knew how. Eventually a building was set in place with a cross, they called it the healing center. No matter your religion, you could come and get some type of healthcare. Later becoming modern scientific institutions that were clean, they had antiseptics and more medications for pain. Having hospitals to go to instead of someone’s house or church is such a great improvement because although they were receiving treatment it wasn’t always safe to do so.

The second exhibit I would like to nominate would be the evolution of penicillin. In a hospital in London a doctor by the name of Sir Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin by experimenting with the influenza virus. In 1931, after Doctor Fleming stopped studying penicillin two researches, Howard Flory and Ernst Chain, at the University of Oxford were credited with the development by using it as medicine in mice. Penicillin is now used to treat all kinds of things including but not limited to bacterial endocarditis, bacterial meningitis and pneumococcal pneumonia. With this discovery soldiers that fought back in WWII were able to be treated and could have possibly be fatal.

Third would be how Medicare and Medicaid and how it came into existence. On July 30, 1965, President Lydon B. Johnson signed legislation that Medicare and Medicaid be created. It was originally only for welfare recipients, but now it is also a public health insurance program for those with a low-income as well as the predominant long-term care program for the elderly and individuals with disabilities which was changed by President Nixon in 1972. In 1980,...