The Johns Hopkins Gazette: February 28, 2000
February 28, 2000
VOL. 29, NO. 24

  

A set of new wheels

Johns Hopkins Gazette Online Edition

When Elizabeth Nowell, marketing coordinator at historic Evergreen House, needed a new wheelchair for disabled visitors, she looked to the museum's friends in East Baltimore. The School of Nursing, the hospital's Patient Transport Department and Ronald Peterson, JHHS president, all assisted in procuring the vehicle for Evergreen. Nowell, photographed at right with Linda Proctor, JHH patient transport supervisor, said the chair was needed because the house's historic elevator is too small to accommodate today's motorized wheelchairs.


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