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The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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But if anybody in the neighborhood is asked about Michael Reese, whose name is carved in bold stone above the main entrance, he has a hard time answering. “A German immigrant who made his fortune in California real estate,” is the accepted version. The cynical have more colorful addenda. Reese (ne Ries) was a peddler who went to California in the wake of the Forty-Niners and, some say, made himself a stake by rolling gold-laden drunks as a sideline. After he had piled up millions in San Francisco real estate, Reese still refused to pay a nickel for a streetcar ride and thought 25¢ too much for a dinner. A contemporary described him sitting in his shabby office, “before him a large pile of $1,000 U.S. Government bonds, and he was clipping off the coupons. That face! Like a hungry boy taking into his mouth a ripe cherry, or a mother gazing down into the face of her pretty sleeping child.” To a Methodist preacher, Reese once said: “My love of money is a sort of insanity, but it is as good a form of madness as any.” Getting on in years, Reese decided to visit his parents’ grave in Germany. But he would not pay a few pfennigs to the cemetery gatekeeper. One legend has it that he tried to climb the fence, impaled himself on a rusty iron spike and died of blood poisoning. Another version: he died of apoplexy when asked to pay. Barbery Coast. Bachelor Reese’s will said that his heirs (mostly in-laws) should use $200,000 of his $2,000,000 fortune for charity. They decided in 1879 to back a hospital, adding carefully that it was “to be called the Michael Reese Hospital for all time to come.” Also they ruled “that the hospital be nonsectarian, that the sufferers, no matter of what religion or nationality, if found worthy and there be room, be admitted.” The site, 29 blocks south of the Loop, was then on the lake shore and in the city’s most fashionable residential area. But the district hit the skids, and wealthy residents moved to the near North Side. In the 1920s, mansions were cut up into tenements, populated mostly by poverty-stricken Negroes teeming in from the South. With poverty went crime, and the former Gold Coast became as raffish as any Barbary Coast that old Reese had known: murder and rape, stabbings and gang brawls were the order of any night. The hospital declined with the neighborhood. By the end of World War II, material as well as philanthropists’ money for rehabilitation became available, and the board of directors (still dominated by Reese’s kin) had to choose: whether to move the hospital at great expense to another district or try to pull up the near South Side by its bootstraps. The board voted for bootstraps. Safety First. Hospital spokesmen helped put drive into the South Side Planning Commission, led a vast slum-clearance and rebuilding project. Hospital units multiplied; some, such as the X-ray and psychiatric departments, set a brisk pace for the whole U.S. In 1946 Dr. Morris H. Kreeger took over as executive director, found that he also had to be a safety director. Each night, by his order, every hospital door except the emergency room is locked at 9 p.m. Michael Reese has its own staff of 28 police; a guard escorts nurses, patients and visitors three blocks to the nearest bus stop, and another guard patrols the stop continuously. Two station wagons shuttle nurses to the Loop’s rapid-transit lines. Even so, there are still occasional casualties among hospital personnel. Despite these difficulties, Michael Reese is booming and carrying much of the South Side with it. The $2,000,000 total given by Reese and his heirs now looks small beside the $26 million expansion program begun in 1945\. All around, slum clearance, model housing and other projects run into the hundreds of millions. Last week Michael Reese admitted the first patients to its 19th building, a $3,750,000 pavilion with 112 beds. Michael Reese cares for 5,000 in-patients and 42,000 outpatients on a charity basis every year (one-third of Chicago’s charity total for 82 hospitals). It relies on the Jewish Federation for about $1,000,000 a year to meet its resulting deficits, instead of overcharging its paying patients. 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