Descriptive Summary
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Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Biography/Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Southern Pacific Employees Hospital Association and Southern Pacific Memorial Hospitals, Incorporated Records
Dates: 1945-1987
Collection Number: 2022_01
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 document box and 11 leather-bound ledger volumes.
Repository:
Sherman Library and Gardens
Corona del Mar, California 92625
Abstract: The collection consists of the business records of the Southern Pacific Employees Hospital Association (SPEHA) and of Southern
Pacific Memorial Hospitals, Incorporated (SPMHI) from 1945 to 1987. They include by-laws, resolutions, materials about their
respective Boards of Directors, and minutes and correspondence. While much of the collection is contained in eleven leather-bound
ledger volumes arranged in chronological order, a small portion of the collection is stored in file folders in a document
box (several of the items contained therein were previously stored in vinyl binders and are now stored in acid-free folders).
Most of the records are minutes and correspondence, and they reflect the regular meetings and decision making of the Boards
of Directors of both SPEHA and SPMHI, and there is also a smaller group minutes and correspondence of the Board of Managers
of the Southern Pacific Hospital Department.
Language of Material: English
Access
This collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights to the physical object belong to the Sherman Library. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by
the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The Sherman Library do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
Southern Pacific Employees Hospital Association and Southern Pacific Memorial Hospitals, Incorporated Records. Sherman Library
and Gardens
Acquisition Information
Gift of William G. Fleckles, March 2009.
Biography/Administrative History
The Southern Pacific Employees Hospital Association (SPEHA), a non-profit corporation, incorporated in California on September
10, 1963. Sponsoring and operating a pre-paid health plan for Southern Pacific Railroad employees and retirees and their
dependents until 1971, the corporation employed physicians and related health care staff at the Southern Pacific Hospital
located at 1400 Fell Street in San Francisco, California, and at the Carl Hayden Hospital in Tucson, Arizona.
An affiliate of SPEHA was Southern Pacific Memorial Hospitals, Incorporated (SPMHI), was also incorporated in California on
September 10, 1963. SPMHI’s purpose was to own the hospitals. SPMHI was formally dissolved on April 9, 1987.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of the business records of the Southern Pacific Employees Hospital Association (SPEHA) and of Southern
Pacific Memorial Hospitals, Incorporated (SPMHI) from 1945 to 1987. They include by-laws, resolutions, materials about their
respective Boards of Directors, and minutes and correspondence. While much of the collection is contained in eleven leather-bound
ledger volumes arranged in chronological order, a small portion of the collection is stored in file folders in a document
box (several of the items contained therein were previously stored in vinyl binders and are now stored in acid-free folders).
Most of the records are minutes and correspondence, and they reflect the regular meetings and decision making of the Boards
of Directors of both SPEHA and SPMHI, and there is also a smaller group minutes and correspondence of the Board of Managers
of the Southern Pacific Hospital Department.
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