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Almost immediately after arriving in Great Bend, the sisters were asked to open a hospital. But they had begun teaching in parochial schools as soon as they arrived in Kansas, and were too busy trying to open St Mary Academy, a school for boys under age 15 and girls under 18. Furthermore, none of the sisters were registered nurses. Mother Antonina wrote to Brooklyn requesting a registered nurse. In 1903 Sister Loretta Feinler came to Great Bend from Brooklyn to open St Rose Hospital. 1903 - The sisters open St Rose Hospital in Great Bend, and in 1907, ground is broken for a 13 room addition to St Rose Hospital, which was dedicated two years later in 1910. 1917 - St Rose School of Nursing is opened, and by 1920, the first graduation class of nurses receives RN pins. 1922 - A new, 75-bed St Rose Hospital is built. 1927 - A 50-bed addition is added to St Rose Hospital. 1931 - A 50-bed hospital is purchased in Garden City and named St Catherine Hospital; it becomes the 12th Catholic hospital in the state. 1946 - Sisters begin operating Sacred Heart Hospital in Lamar, Colorado. 1948 - Sister Loretta Feinler, foundress of St Rose Hospital, dies. 1949 - Ground is broken for St Joseph Memorial Hospital in Larned, Kansas, which is completed in 1951. 1954 - Dominican School of Nursing opens. 1961 - Ground is broken for a new hospital to replace St Rose Hospital in Great Bend. The new hospital was dedicated as Central Kansas Medical Center in 1964. 1985 - The three hospitals, Central Kansas Medical Center, St Joseph Memorial and St Catherine, join seven other religious congregations in partnership with Catholic Health Corporation of Omaha in order to provide better service and use of resources. 1988 - Heartland Center for Wholistic Health is opened. Central Kansas Medical Center and St Joseph Hospital merge as a single administrative unit. 1997 - Central Kansas Medical Center is incorporated into Catholic Health Initiatives. |
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¨ Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) ¨ Central Kansas Medical Center ¨ Sister Peggy Martin OP, JCL, Senior Vice President, Sponsorship and Governance, Catholic Health Initiatives (1) CHI Photo, and (2) 2001 Leadership Letter ¨ Sister Mary Ann Klein OP Endowment Video on the Nursing Shortage ¨ Sr Terry Wasinger OP, RN, Family Birthing Unit, Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas ¨ Sr Malachy Stockhemer OP Volunteer, Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas ¨ Mary Klinge OPA, Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas ¨ Sr Diane Traffas OP Catholic Health Initiatives, Minneapolis, Minn. (2000) |