Susanville – Riverside Hospital

Riverside Hospital, courtesy of Betty Barry Deal
Riverside Hospital, courtesy of Betty Barry Deal

This hospital was located at 2005 River Street, Susanville. There was a time in the area’s past that there were two local institutions where one was born–Potter’s and Riverside.  My siblings were born at Potter’s, while I was born at Riverside, a few years ago. Rarely, did births occur at the Lassen County Hospital. During the 1950s, my Aunt Irene Purdy Trout worked at the latter, which they affectionally referred to as “County.” She recalled only one birth there for nearly a decade that she worked there.  That all changed in the early 1960s, when a new Lassen County Hospital was constructed next to the old one.  By that time, Ma Potter after some 30 plus years as a midwife was ready to retire and changes were on the horizon with Riverside and its aging facility in which it would be torn down in 1969.

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