The house formerly owned by G. Hixson in South Brevard and purchased by Mrs. R.G. Dougherty has been prepared and equipped by the new owner for use as a Sanitarium. The institution will be known as the Navajo, and is now open to receive patients suffering from various diseases.
Besides Mrs. Doughtery, who is herself a trained nurse, the staff at present consists of Dr. T.J. Summey and Mrs. J.J. Ogg.
Dr. Summey, as resident physician, will have direction of the treatment of cases. Mrs. Ogg, a trained nurse from Minneapolis, Minn. Is superintendent. She has been associated with her husband, who is a physician, in conducting a sanitarium in Minneapolis, and is still connected with that institution. She is a sister of Mrs. Doughtery’s.
The Navajo at its stage of opening is equipped to accommodate as many as ten patients. Several rooms have been added to the house, and every room in the house is equipped with a bath.
The institution is designed, according to a statement made by one of the staff to a News reporter, as a place for the treatment of disease in general, without making specialties of any kind. No operating equipment, it was said, has been provided as yet. The management wish it understood that the Sanitarium in open to all physicians.
The house, built by Mr. Hixson a few years ago, is ideally located for a residence or for the purposes to which it is now devoted. It stands on one of the highest points on Broad Street, is a beautiful building, and commands a fine view.
From the front page of The Brevard News, April 7, 1921
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