Asthma -- Treatment

Abstract Bernard S. Fellner wrote “The Confessions and Convictions of a Conscientious CFO” about his nearly 18 years as the chief financial officer of National Jewish Hospital from 1980-1997. He helped make NJH solvent during the transition of National Jewish Hospital from inpatient to outpatient treatment of asthma. National Jewish Hospital began as a tuberculosis sanitorium and was free to all patients. When Bernard Fellner arrived in 1980, NJH had only recently begun to charge for treatment and...

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Correspondence regarding Philip Houtz, Exective Director of National Jewish Hospital, letters K-M

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Annual Dinner Journals, invitations and dinner related materials; audio reel of 1974 Diamond Jubilee Dinner honoring trustees

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection includes annual reports, correspondence, limited patient records, meeting minutes, financial statements, reports, scrapbooks, photographs, sound discs, and objects from 1899 to 2009. The items reveal patient demographics and characteristics as well as detailed information regarding the early treatment of tuberculosis.

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Color film, Children of November, depicting the role of the Children's Asthma Research Institute and Hospital (CARIH) in the care of asthmatic children, as well as in the search for an asthma cure. Closing credits names Sandra Gainsforth and R. Roger Harkins as associate producers. Film written by John Crowley, narrated by Lorne Green, produced and directed by Robert H. Maxwell.

Abstract Fannie Eller was born in Geishen, Russia, in 1881. She and her family immigrated to America when Fannie was a teenager and moved to the West Colfax area of Denver in 1896. She married Jacob Lorber and became interested in the plight of "tb orphans." In 1907, Fannie Lorber, Bessie Willems, and some other eastern European women founded the Denver Sheltering Home for Jewish Children to care for children of Jewish tb patients at the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives and at the Jewish...

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Narrated color film depicting asthma and the treatment of asthma at the Jewish National Home for Asthmatic Children (JNHAC). The closing credits inform the film is produced in conjunction with the University of Denver Communications Center.

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Silent black and white film depicting a day at the Jewish National Home for Asthmatic Children in Denver, Colorado. Footage depicts daily life at the home, including treatment, play, and chores.

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Silent black and white film depicting scenes from the Jewish National Home for Asthmatic Children in the 1940s. Depicts children performing chores, dancing, reading, and other daily activities. Some fading at very end of footage.

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Silent color film containing scenes depicting Jewish National Home for Asthmatic Children convention, as well as swimmers at an outdoor swimming pool.