Here’s To Your Health

Hospital Opened 100 Years Ago Today

Posted: October 1, 2012

Jim Krauss, president and CEO of Rockingham Memorial Hospital, addresses the audience during a celebration Sunday marking the 100th anniversary of the hospital’s opening. About 400 people attended the Centennial Celebration. (Photos by Stephen Mitchell)
Gloria Raynes (left) and Marsha Howdyshell (right), graduates of RMH’s now defunct nursing school, speak with Howdyshell’s granddaughter, Kaci Pitsenbarger, 11. Kaci wore her grandmother’s nursing outfit to the birthday bash. RMH opened 100 years ago today — Oct. 1, 1912.
RMH nursing school graduates Wanda Rittenhouse (left) and Barbara Ross look at old photos from their alma mater during RMH’s Centennial Celebration on Sunday.

HARRISONBURG — When community leaders came together a century ago to plan a hospital for Harrisonburg, they had a daunting task ahead of them.

They envisioned a place where everyone —...



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