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In the Hospital of the Future, babies were kept in plastic drawers

By Cyriaque Lamar Published August 9, 2011, 5:55 pm ET

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In the 1950s, Kaiser Permanente founders Henry Kaiser and Sidney Garfield unveiled their model for the Hospital of the Future. The most entertaining innovation was the baby cabinet, where new mothers could find their children stored like pairs of freshly folded socks.

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