Manufacturer: Syracuse China
User: Reading Hospital
Pattern name (oval bowl): Mistic
Date of examples: circa 1926

Reading Hospital and Nurses Home, PA

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Notes: From Wikipedia: "In November 1867, physicians with the Reading [Pennsylvania] Medical Association and 16 local business leaders developed plans for the area's first hospital. The Reading Dispensary opened in downtown Reading on Jan. 27, 1868, and moved to northwest Reading in 1886 under its new name, The Reading Hospital. Public demand for hospital care led to constant expansion, resulting in the 1926 relocation to the present 36-acre (15-hectare) site in West Reading. In 2017 the Reading hospital introduced Tower Health. This included a purchase of Brandywine Hospital in Coatesville; Chestnut Hill Hospital, a teaching hospital in Philadelphia; Jennersville Hospital in West Grove; Phoenixville Hospital in Phoenixville; and Pottstown Hospital in Pottstown; St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia; and 20 urgent care locations across the service area. In 2019, a 16-bed pediatric emergency department was added.

"In 2017, Reading Hospital treated more than 133,000 people in its emergency room, delivered 3,500 babies, provided more than 750,000 outpatient services and 33,000 inpatient admissions. Reading Hospital operates a level I trauma center. The hospital is certified as an advanced primary stroke center."

White body china oval bowl has Syracuse China's Mistic border pattern in gray and blue around the rim. At the top of the bowl, the pattern is broken by the hospital's logo of a yellow/orange shield surrounded in blue ribbons with the letters "RH" in navy in the center of the shield. A divided grill plate is shown above with the same logo but a different border pattern of a yellow band with blue pinstripes top and bottom.

Source:
Wikipedia – history of the hospital

Contributors:
Maureen ONale Dennis: ID
Ed Babcock: bowl photos
Ed Phillips: author