The sycamore is also called the buttonwood tree or American planetree.
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In 1985 Planetree was transferred to Ketchikan, replacing USCGC Laurel. In her new homeport she was responsible for 254 aids to navigation between Dixon Entrance and Juneau. On April 6, 1989 Planetree was directed to sail for Prince William Sound to assist in the Coast Guard response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Planetree and USCGC Yocona attempted to corral floating oil near Seward with floating boom.
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Her crew of 22 was rescued by Planetree. Planetree spent the winter of 19431944 icebreaking in the Great Lakes. She was the first vessel of the season to reach Sault Ste. Marie by breaking ice in the Saint Mary's River in March 1944.
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In June 2018, Bellevue was the first hospital in Lebanon to be granted the Planetree gold designation.
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Planetree was tasked with a number of search and rescue missions while stationed in Honolulu. For example, in August 1959 she towed the disabled schooner Diablo and her crew of ten 675 miles back to Honolulu. She rescued the 17-man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Koryo Maru II which had gone aground on Minto Reef in the Caroline Islands in 1961. The sloop Rampage, participating in the 1967 Transpacific Yacht Race, lost her rudder and was towed to port by Planetree. Planetree had a brief tour in the Korean War zone, arriving on May 15, 1954.
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She was replaced in Juneau by USCGC Planetree which had just completed her mid-life renovation. Sweetbrier's Juneau-based crew transferred to Planetree, however, so it was Planetree's former crew who sailed Sweetbrier to the East Coast. Sweetbrier received the more extensive of the two mid-life renovations given to the 180-foot buoy tenders. Corroded hull plates were replaced with fresh steel.
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Two racks of depth charges were also mounted on the aft deck. All of this armament was removed in 1966 leaving Planetree with only small arms for law enforcement actions. At the time of construction, Planetree was designated WAGL, an auxiliary vessel, lighthouse tender. The designation was system was changed in 1965, and she was redsignated WLB, an oceangoing buoy tender.
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Planetree hove to until the weather moderated, reducing her speed to just the minimum required to allow her rudder to be effective in steering the ship. Even at this low speed, the ship began to leak propeller shaft lubricant which threatened her ability to continue steering. USCGC Douglas Munro responded to Planetree bringing additional lubricant, and the ship made port as the weather moderated.
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The pumps prevailed, removing 3.2 million gallons of water from the ship's hold. Planetree ultimately made it to drydock in Ketchikan under her own power.USCGC Planetree (second from left) rafted in reserve fleet, Suisun Bay, CaliforniaPlanetree was decommissioned in Ketchikan on March 19, 1999. During her career she earned several honors including the Coast Guard Unit Commendation, two Meritorious Unit Commendations, and eight Coast Guard E Ribbons.
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After decommissioning, Planetree was placed in the ready reserve fleet and moored with other mothballed ships at Suisun Bay, California. Several efforts were made to donate the ship to a worthy non-profit organization. The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2004 sought to donate Planetree to the Jewish Life museum in Sherman Oaks, California. In 2005 Congress acted to give Plaintree to CAS Foundation, Inc.
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She also worked in the Hawaiian Islands. When a May 1960 tsunami displaced the harbor buoys at Hilo, Planetree was on the spot to reset them.
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Peterson, Hans. "Relationship > Retreats: From Warriors to Soul Mates," Veterans Health Administration, > October 18, 2012 Also in October 2012, PAIRS Foundation's collaboration with the San Diego VA Healthcare System was recognized with the "Spirit of Planetree Award" for the program's impact strengthening relationships between "family, friends and social supports as a central component of patient-centered care."Henthorn, Robert. "PAIRS Collaboration with VA Recognized with Prestigious 2012 Spirit of Planetree Award," FatherhoodChannel.
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The end of World War II in 1945 created intense pressure from conscripted members of the armed forces and their families for rapid demobilization. The Coast Guard lost so many sailors that it was forced to decommission several ships for lack of crews to sail them. Planetree was decommissioned in March 1947 and held in reserve at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. On September 1, 1949 Planetree was recommissioned and assigned to Guam.
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As one of the first five hospitals nationally designated as a Planetree patient-centered hospital and the only one in San Diego County, Sharp Coronado Hospital is a part of Sharp HealthCare.
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Planetree testing firefighting equipment at the Coast Guard Yard in June 1944 In June 1944 Planetree was assigned to a new homeport, Honolulu, Hawaii. During her transit from the Great Lakes she stopped at the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland. Tenders sailing for war zones were equipped with extra firefighting pumps, welding equipment, and diving gear. Once she reached Hawaii, one of her tasks was to deliver updated LORAN equipment to remote stations at Baker, Gardner, and Atafu Islands, which she accomplished in 1945.
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Planetree was built at the Marine Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company yard in Duluth, Minnesota. Her keel was laid down on December 4, 1942. The ship was launched on March 20, 1943. Her original cost was $872,876.
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She was designed to perform light ice-breaking. Her hull was reinforced with an "ice belt" of thicker steel around her waterline to protect it from punctures. Similarly, her bow was reinforced and shaped to ride over ice in order to crush it with the weight of the ship. USCGC Planetree as she appeared at the end of her career Planetree had a single stainless-steel five-blade propeller driven by a diesel-electric propulsion system. Two Cooper-Bessemer GND-8 4-cycle 8-cylinder Diesel engines produced 700 horsepower each.
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Her primary mission was to maintain aids to navigation, including LORAN stations, throughout the central Pacific. Due to the vast distances involved, these cruises were long. They took advantage of the ship's at-sea endurance. During February and March 1960, Planetree spent seven weeks repairing aids to navigation on Samoa, and Swains, Baker, Jarvis, Howland, and Enderbury Islands. In August 1960 she was sent on a four-week cruise to Midway and Johnston Islands, and Samoa to maintain aids to navigation. Planetree cruised the western Pacific on a five-month trip maintaining buoys in 1965.
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It plays an important role in woodland ecosystems by decomposing wood, usually elm, but is occasionally a parasite on living trees. Other tree hosts include ash, beech, horse chestnut, Persian walnut, lime, maple, planetree, poplar, magnolia, and willow.
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The hospital is also affiliated with Lebanese and European centers of medical education, Saint Joseph University, Lebanese American University. In 2017, Bellevue Medical Center became affiliated with Planetree that draws the principles on the patient centered care approach.
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Stained glasses in the chancel were also produced by Prussian Imperial Stained Glass Institute () in Berlin and funded by Emperor William II. Beside the Church, grows a planetree registered on the Polish Natural Monuments' list: this is a 346 cm trunk circumference tree.
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The climate control system was modernized, and the main engines and electrical switchboards were overhauled. New 100 kilowatt generators were installed. After the renovation, in August 1974, Planetree was reassigned to Juneau, Alaska. Her primary mission remained the maintenance of aids to navigation.
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Under the trees, there is a purpose built wood store. On the west lawn, there is a London planetree. The south lawn has a labyrinth in it, where the maypole is erected. This lawn as young redwood and several varieties of apple and plum trees.
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She was a founding member of Planetree, which has been described as a "pioneering organization dedicated to humanizing patient care in hospitals". Gilpin worked to develop and implement hospital care centered around patients. Gilpin died on February 15, 2007 in Fairhope, Alabama, at age 56.
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Bellevue Medical Center (, BMC) founded in July 2009, is a general hospital located in Mansourieh, Lebanon. It offers healthcare services in many specialties. The hospital has a capacity of 160 beds within its eight floors. Bellevue Medical Center is a Joint Commission International (JCI) accredited and Planetree Gold designated hospital.
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He was protesting the Hardtack I series of hydrogen bomb tests. Planetree escorted his sailboat to Kwajalein. In 1966 the Republic of Vietnam had only a single buoy tender. It was not adequate to maintain and improve navigational aids needed by the growing US shipping along the South Vietnamese coast.
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When she departed on July 27, 1954 she was the last Coast Guard cutter to leave theater of operations. She earned the Korean service medal for her efforts. In July 1958 crew from Planetree arrested pacifist and nuclear activist Earle L. Reynolds 65 miles inside a restricted area in the Pacific Proving Grounds.
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Although the three villages of the commune are seen by tourists as transit localities situated along the European road connecting Arad and Oradea, Zimandu Nou has attractive tourist elements as the Utviniș Forest, a forestal reservation with planetree and Turkish hazel bush, as well as the Military Channel, a significant engineering work.
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The training they received was deemed sufficient to turn over responsibility for maintaining their own aids to navigation in December 1972, but by then the regime was falling. The last Coast Guard buoy tender left Vietnamese waters in the spring of 1973 as part of the general withdrawal of U.S. forces.. Planetree earned the Vietnam service award.
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Planetree was given a refit in 1974. She received an "austere" renovation, the less comprehensive of the two buoy tender service life extension programs the Coast Guard implemented at that time. This refit was expected to extend the ship's life by 8 to 10 years. Crew quarters were improved and modernized, and a new crew lounge was added.
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Platanus × acerifolia, the London plane, London planetree, or hybrid plane, is a tree in the genus Platanus. It is often known by the synonym Platanus × hispanica. It is usually thought to be a hybrid of Platanus orientalis (oriental plane) and Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore). Some authorities think that it may be a cultivar of P. orientalis.
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Griffin Hospital is a 160-bed community hospital founded in 1909 and located in Derby, Connecticut. The hospital serves more than 130,000 residents in the Lower Naugatuck Valley. Griffin Hospital is Derby's top employer and one of New Haven County's largest employers. Griffin Hospital serves as a flagship hospital for Planetree, an international healthcare organization that centers on patient care.
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Her hull was constructed of welded steel plates framed with steel I-beams. As originally built, Planetree was long, with a beam of , and a draft of . Her displacement was 935 tons. While her overall dimensions remained the same over her career, the addition of new equipment raised her displacement to 1,025 tons by the end of her Coast Guard service.
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In September 1984 Planetree was tending a buoy about 5 miles west of Gustavus, Alaska. She struck a submerged object which tore a hole in her hull 3 feet long and eight inches wide. Her main hold flooded to ten feet deep. She sought shelter at Bartlett Cove in Glacier Bay National Park where commercial divers installed a temporary patch.
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Buoy maintenance on Anthony Petit in 2018 After her launch and sea trials, Anthony Petit sailed down the Great Lakes, the Saint Lawrence Seaway, and through the Panama Canal to reach Ketchikan, Alaska, her homeport for her entire career. She arrived in January 2000. The ship is stationed at Coast Guard Base Ketchikan. She replaced USCGC Planetree at this station.
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" An earlier report provided further details of her furnishings: "She is furnished in darker tints than Clydebank's Orsova. The first-class dining saloon is in walnut, in old English style. The lounge and drawing room are in Italian walnut, and the music-room adjoining in Italian walnut relief and planetree carving. The deck above has been raised so as to give a height below of about 11ft.
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The smoking room is in carved oak, old English style. Eight of the cabins are cabins deluxe and are finished in satinwood, oak, mahogany, and planetree. In the dining saloon and also in the bedrooms of the cabins deluxe there are ventilating punkahs, while in each cabin there is a ceiling fan. Many of the cabins are single berth, and a number are on the Bibby principle.
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Patients took home a VHS tape of their surgery. In 1992, MCMC’s remodel is complete, transforming the traditional hospital into a comfortable "center of healing" and ushering in the Planetree era. The hospital was sued by 12 women after sexual abuse by Dr. Fredrick Field was revealed in May 2011. MCMC settled most of the cases and lost a $2.4 million judgment over the abuse.
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In 2012, Sharp Memorial was formally designated as a Planetree Designated Patient-Centered Hospital, which recognized Sharp Memorial's achievement and innovation in the delivery of patient-centered care. Sharp Coronado Hospital is the only other hospital in California to receive the designation. In 2010, Press Ganey Associates, Inc., recognized Sharp Memorial Hospital with its Press Ganey Top Improver Award for continuous improvement in patient satisfaction scores.
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Sharp Coronado Hospital has been affiliated with Sharp HealthCare since 1994. Located in Coronado, the facility holds 181 licensed beds, 122 of which are skilled nursing beds and 59 of which are acute-care beds. Sharp Coronado Hospital was the first Planetree Alliance hospital in San Diego County and, as such, focuses on patient empowerment, patient and family education and complementary therapies, including Healing Touch, clinical aromatherapy, acupuncture and massage therapy.
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Planetree was commissioned on November 4, 1943, and began her career in the Great Lakes. In early December 1943 she was icebreaking in Lake Superior to keep the port of Ashland, Wisconsin open for iron ore shipments. On December 10, 1943 the Canadian steamship Sarnian went aground off Point Isabella on the Keweenaw Peninsula during a storm. Covered in ice and pounded by high seas, her hull plates cracked, and she was abandoned three days later.
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At 10:11 pm on January 25, 1990 Planetree ran aground at Deception Point in the southern part of Wrangell Narrows. There were no injuries and the ship was promptly refloated, but her hull was pierced and began to flood. USCGC Firebush, USCGC Elderberry, and USCGC Anacapa responded and brought emergency pumps and divers. The divers found a 1' x 2' hole, a 6" x 1" crack and a 5-foot dent on Planetree's port side.
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Mid-Columbia Medical Center (MCMC) is a hospital complex in The Dalles, Oregon. In June 1992, Mid-Columbia Medical Center became the first hospital in the world to implement the Planetree concept of patient-centered care facility wide and in 2007 the hospital was recognised as a "Designated Patient-Centered Hospital", one of five such hospitals in the country. The Mid-Columbia Medical Center Heliport is located one mile northwest of The Dalles in Wasco County, Oregon.
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In 2004, Swedish Covenant Hospital became a member of the Planetree Alliance, an organization that develops and implements guidelines for patient-centered care. The hospital maintained its membership until 2009. In 2012, a lawsuit was filed against Swedish Covenant that garnered national attention after the Associated Press reported on the lawsuit. The suit alleged that the hospital failed to meet its mission by not providing adequate free and reduced cost care to two low-income uninsured patients.
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In particular, U.S. commanders wanted a series of petroleum off-loading buoys to support the movement of fuel ashore from tankers. They requested assistance placing these buoys and on April 24, 1966 Plantree became the first Coast Guard buoy tender to enter the Vietnam theater of operations. She set 16 off-loading buoys in 4 ports. Other requests for aids to navigation resulted in the Coast Guard deploying four buoy tenders, including Planetree, on short rotations during the Vietnam war.
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During her 1967 Vietnam deployment, Planetree set ship anchorage and mooring buoys off Da Nang and Chu Lai. Among the unique challenges faced in the war zone was that aids to navigation were used for target practice by all sides in the conflict. Batteries for lighted buoys were stolen by all sides for use in cars and other applications. Whenever any of the Coast Guard buoy tenders were deployed to the theater they sailed with Vietnamese lighthouse service personnel aboard.
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Also in 1983, the Mid-Columbia Health Foundation is established. MCMC agreed to become the first hospital to adopt the Planetree model of patient-centered care facility-wide in 1989. The transformation involved a near-complete architectural makeover, a massive training program involving the entire hospital staff and many other significant changes designed to "personalize, humanize and demystify" the hospital experience for patients. In 1990, Dr. Bill Hamilton and Dr. Hal Sessions performed the first laparoscopic gall bladder surgeries in the Columbia River Gorge at MCMC.
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In 2014, Sharp Chula Vista became a Planetree Designated Patient-Centered Hospital. With this designation, it became the first co-located hospital and skilled nursing facility in the nation to receive this distinction, which recognizes achievement and innovation in patient- and resident-centered care. In 2015, Sharp Chula Vista announced plans for a new, seven-story tower, to be known as the Ocean View Tower, to open in 2020. This will be the first new hospital in San Diego's South Bay for more than 40 years.
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Opened in 1955, Sharp Memorial Hospital is Sharp's largest hospital and the system's only designated Level II trauma center. Located in Birdland/Serra Mesa, the hospital has 656 licensed beds. Sharp Memorial Hospital is home to a large Emergency and Trauma center; a surgery center; many specialized medical programs and departments; and the only heart transplant center in San Diego. In January 2012, Sharp Memorial was formally designated as a Planetree Designated Patient-Centered Hospital, joining Sharp Coronado as the only other hospital in California to receive the designation.
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Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center is a 449-bed hospital with the largest array of health care services in San Diego's South Bay. A Designated Planetree Patient-Centered Care Hospital, Sharp Chula Vista is home to the region's most comprehensive and advanced programs for cardiac, oncology, orthopedics, maternity and more. Opened in 2012, The Douglas & Nancy Barnhart Cancer Center offers patients the most advanced cancer treatment technology in a unique healing environment. In January 2020, Sharp Chula Vista opened the Ocean View Tower, a next-generation hospital tower to serve the growing South Bay community.
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One unusual aspect of this service is that she was responsible for supplying the last manned lighthouse in Alaska, Five Finger Island. Planetree sailed from Alaska to Hawaii several times during her career to join training exercises. On one trip, in January 1993, she encountered a storm which produced 100-mile per hour gusts and waves 55 feet high. Three small holes opened in the ship's hull causing a 30 to 50 gallon per hour leak. The application off quick-drying cement as temporary patches cut the leaks down to 3 to 5 gallons per hour, which the ship's pumps handled easily.
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In 2010, Sharp Memorial Hospital received the Gold Medal of Honor from the Department of Health and Human Services for its Organ Transplantation Program. Three Sharp Memorial caregivers were honored with the 2010 Spirit of Planetree Award, recognizing their personal embodiment of the hospital's patient-centered approach to providing care. In June 2010, Sharp Memorial was named "The Most Beautiful Hospital in America" by Soliant Health. In January 2008, Sharp Memorial became the second Sharp hospital to receive the American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet recognition for nursing excellence, making Sharp HealthCare the first health system in California with two Magnet-designated hospitals.
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Platanus occidentalis, also known as American sycamore, American planetree, western plane, occidental plane, buttonwood, and water beech, is a species of Platanus native to the eastern and central United States, the mountains of northeastern Mexico, extreme southern Ontario, and possibly extreme southern Quebec. It is usually called sycamore in North America, a name which can refer to other types of tree in other parts of the world. The species epithet occidentalis is Latin for "western", referring to the Western Hemisphere, because at the time when it was named by Carl Linnaeus, the only other species in the genus was P. orientalis ("eastern"), native to the Eastern Hemisphere.
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In 1954, Reynolds and her family sailed around the world in the Phoenix of Hiroshima, a yacht that Earle had designed. In 1958, the family (minus their eldest son Tim) and a crew member, Niichi (Nick) Mikami, arrived back in Honolulu. Across the dock was a yacht, the Golden Rule, in which four Quaker men had attempted to protest American nuclear testing in the Pacific. They were arrested under an injunction put into effect while they were at sea, forbidding American citizens to enter the area of the ocean where the weapons were being tested.Hardtack series of 35 atmospheric tests near the Marshall Islands, 1958) On July 2, 1958, the Reynolds family and Nick sailed the Phoenix into the test zone and were stopped by the American Coast Guard ship Planetree.
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