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From: "Roxanne" <>
Subject: Re: [MNHENNEP] Re: Glen Lake Sanatorium records
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:22:24 -0600
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Jodi,

Thank you so much for the information that you sent. It is going to be
really helpful.

Roxanne
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From: "Jodi" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 11:20 PM
Subject: [MNHENNEP] Re: Glen Lake Sanatorium records


> Roxanne,
> I did a search on this subject at the Minnesota Historical Society's
> web page a while back, this is the results:
>
> This information is from the MHS web site, in their library collection
> as of 20 May 2001
> http://www.mnhs.org/
> Library: MN Historical Society
> Location: SEE STATE ARCHIVES NOTEBOOKS
> Author: Glen Lake State Sanatorium (Minnetonka, Minn.).
>
> Title: Patient records and registers, 1916-1991.
> Description: 3.5 cu. ft. (4 boxes and 2 partial boxes).
> Restrictions: Patient records and admission registers are closed for
> 50 years from date of last entry.
> Summary: Admission and discharge registers from Glen Lake Sanatorium
> and State Sanatorium (1916- 1991)and Oak Terrace Nursing Home
> (1962-1975). There are separate registers for maternity
> patients,tuberculosis cases, veterans, cardiac, and miscellaneous
> cases, and for the children's hearthospital. There are also daily
> census records for the sanatorium (1916-1932), and miscellaneous
> patientlists (1916-1977). The latter include admission and discharge
> data (1962- 1963, 1976-1977),listings of patients by illness type
> (1916-1959), deaths (1968-1969, 1988- 1991), autopsypermission
> (1968-1973), and missing patients (1974-1975).
> -----------------------------------------
> Title: Patient information cards, 1916-1991.
> Description: 4.75 cu. ft. (5 half-height boxes and 6 card file boxes).
> Restrictions: Includes private data; files closed for 50 years from
> date of last entry. Researchers may apply to
> use these files in accordance with the State Archives access
> statement. Files identified as containing private data are noted on
> the folder list; the other files in these boxes are open to use.
> Summary: Summary medical records for patients at the Glen Lake
> Sanatorium, Glen Lake State Sanatorium, and Oak Terrace Nursing Home.
> The first set, 1916-1991, includes patient's name, case file number,
> address, birthdate, consort's name, addmission and discharge dates,
> and brief medical summary. The second set, 1940s-1980s, includes
> name, address, case file number, admission and discharge dates, and
> billing information.
> -----------------------------------------
> Title: Medical summary cards, 1916-1976.
> Description: 9.5 cu. ft. (4 boxes and 12 card file boxes).
> Restrictions: Medical summary cards contain private data; closed for
> 50 years from date of creation.
> Summary: Summary medical cards for patients at the Glen Lake
> Sanatorium and Glen Lake State Sanatorium. Information includes
> patient's name, case number, age, admission date, residence; also,
> stage of disease, discharge condition and date, and other medical
> information.
> -----------------------------------------
> Author: Glen Lake State Sanatorium (Minnetonka, Minn.).
> Title: Miscellaneous records, 1918-1991.
> Description: 3 v. and 1 v. in folder.
> Summary: Guest register (1918-1990) of visitors to the sanatorium and
> rest home, including various organizations' attendees that held
> meetings at the facility and people who attended the annual homecoming
> celebrations and the special 75th anniversary celebration held in
> August, 1990. Also an undated housekeeping inventory and
> employee/volunteer record containing number, name, and job title for
> numbers 36000-39021 (1963- 1986).
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Title: Pupil index cards, [ca.1932]-1958.
> Description: 1 card file box.
> Restrictions: Pupil index cards contain private data. Researchers may
> apply to use these records in accordance
> Summary: Kept by the sanatorium's education department, the cards
> include each pupil's name, birth date, school ransferred from,
> admittance date, dismissal date, grade level, and parents' or
> guardian's name and address.
> -----------------------------------------
> Author: Glen Lake State Sanatorium (Minnetonka, Minn.).
> Title: Autopsy reports and tissue examinations, 1918-1962.
> Description: 5.75 cu. ft. (6 boxes).
> Summary:
> The autopsy reports (protocols) give autopsy number;
> hospital patient number; patient name, age,
> and sex; dates of hospital admission, death, and
> autopsy; clinical diagnosis; detailed description of
> autopsy findings, including sketches locating
> pathological lung conditions; and diagnoses. The
> tissue reports give laboratory and reg[istration?]
> numbers, patient's name, doctor's name, type of
> tissue or test, gross description of tissue specimen,
> microscopic description, and pathological diagnosis.
> -----------------------------------------
> Title: Clippings scrapbooks, 1917-1991.
> Description: 1.25 cu. ft. (2 v. and 5 oversize folders).
> Summary:
> Four scrapbooks documenting activities at the sanatorium
> and the lives of the staff, patients, and
> former patients. Although consisting mainly of newspaper
> clippings, the scrapbooks also contain some
> memoranda and photographs.
> The 1980-1991 volumes includes numerous clippings
> documenting the sanatorium employees'
> participation in a 1981 strike by the American
> Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
> (AFSCME).
> -----------------------------------------
> Title: Photographs, [ca.1917]-[198-].
> Description: 0.7 cu. ft. (2 partial boxes and 4 oversize folders).
> Summary: Primarily black and white prints of all sizes. There are
> negatives for a small portion of the
> prints. Mostly group and portrait shots of residents and staff of the
> sanatorium and a few for the nursing home. They include photographs of
> patients in tuberculosis treatment, treatment equipment, and interior
> and exterior views of buildings. Several of the prints were used for
> an exhibit at the facility when it c elebrated its 75th anniversary
> homecoming in August 1990.
> -----------------------------------------
> Location: RC313.M62 G547 1990
> Author: Goebel, Norma Anderson.
> Title: San memories : Glen Lake Sanatorium, Oak Terrace Nursing Home
> / compiled and edited by Norma Anderson Goebel.
> Publisher: [Minnesota : s.n.], 1990.
> Description: 78 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
> -----------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> Location: FOLIO GV961 .G6 v.20:1
> Author: Dustin, Virginia L.
> Title: Glen Lake Children's Hospital : sick children made well and
> happy again! / by Virginia L. Dustin.
> Description: p. 6-8 : ill. ; 30 cm.
> -----------------------------------------
> Location: READING ROOM RC313.M62 G544 1961
> Title: Glen Lake Sanatorium, 1916-1961, Oak Terrace, Minnesota.
> Publisher: Oak Terrace, Minn. : The Sanatorium, [1961].
> Description: 18 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
> -----------------------------------------
> Location: RC313.M62 G563 1926
> Author: Mariette, E. S. (Ernest S.)
> Title: Glen Lake Sanatorium : its growth and development / E.S.
> Mariette.
> Publisher: Minnesota : s.n., 1926]
> Description: 10 p. ; 23 cm.
> ----------------------------------------
> Location: A-V COLLECTION VIDEOTAPE 393
> Title: From beginning to end [videorecording] : Glen Lake Sanatorium,
> Oak Terrace Nursing Home
> / produced by Mary Krugerud and Colleen Spadaccini.
> Publisher: [Minnesota : s.n., 1991].
> Description: 1 videocassette (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
> Summary: History of Glen Lake Sanatorium (1916-1961) and Oak Terrace
> Nursing Home (1961-1991),
> located in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
> Tech-Details: VHS format.
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> HISTORY OF GLEN LAKE
>
> The site of the Glen Lake Golf & Practice
> Center is historically significant
> as the location of the Glen Lake
> Tuberculosis Sanatorium. The Sanatorium's
> first patient arrived by sleigh from St.
> Louis Park on a cold January day in
> 1916. At the height of the TB epidemic in
> the 1930s, 715 people lived in
> the multi-building complex and received
> the best medicine available,
> plenty of sunshine, rest and good food.
> The Minnesota Department of Public
> Welfare (now Human Services) assumed
> operation from Hennepin County in
> 1962 and guided the transition from
> tuberculosis sanatorium to Oak
> Terrace Nursing Home. The state closed
> the nursing home in 1991 and the
> buildings were demolished. During the 75
> years of service, the staff
> provided care to more than 17,000 people.
>
> In 1991, Hennepin County appointed the
> Glen Lake Task Force to evaluate
> the development potential of the Glen
> Lake Sanatorium site. After
> considering several land use options, the
> Task Force recommended the
> development of a public golf course. Due
> to the current use and physical
> limitations of the property, a 9-hole
> executive length course was selected.
> Hennepin County selected Hennepin Parks
> to operate the Glen Lake Golf &
> Practice Center as a self-supporting
> facility.
>
> FROM http://www.hennepinparks.org/golf/glenlake/about.cfm (20 MAY 2001)
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 24, 2004, at 07:00 PM,
> wrote:
>
> > From: "Roxanne" <>
> > Date: Mon Feb 23, 2004 6:30:10 PM US/Central
> > To:
> > Subject: [MNHENNEP] Glen Lake Sanatorium
> >
> >
> > I am hoping that some one can help me find the records of a family
> > member that was hospitalized at this Sanatorium. It was in the 1930.
> > I have read that they have the records at the State Archives, can
> > anyone tell me if they have a web page. Thank you
> >
> > Roxanne White
> > Nebraska
>


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