Box Butte总医院: A consolidated History - 1910-1960

The front entrance to the original St. Joseph Hospital, photo taken in the 1930s.

Not so long ago (but then again, 这是), 美国的医疗保健行业由宗教组织和慈善机构经营的医院主导, most of them Catholic Sisters belonging to various orders. It was a calling many nuns answered with their faith, a faith that inspired a strong dedication to provide comfort to the sick and injured. 整个国家都是这样. 所以是在博克斯巴特县.

1910年，博士. H. A. 科普西和C.E. 斯拉格走近牧师. W. L. 圣玫瑰教堂的牧师麦克纳马拉请求帮助为社区建造一所医院. Within a year, their efforts resulted in a two-story brick building housing 23 beds. The hospital was staffed by the Sisters of Mercy from Omaha for a brief period, before they bowed out due to financial difficulties.  他们的离开导致了Fr. McNamara turning to the Sisters of Saint 弗朗西斯 of Penance and Christian Charity. The Sisters were already a presence in the community, opening St. 1908年的艾格尼丝学院. 他们回应Fr. McNamara’s pleas in their usual humility, agreeing to help run the hospital, 5月1日生效, 1911, beginning what would eventually be six decades of service to Alliance, Hemingford and rural Box Butte County communities.

Under their guidance and the expertise of the medical community, St. Joseph was built just five years later, with the Central Wing completed in December of 1916 at a cost of over $20,000. Its completion raised the number of beds to 40.

到了20世纪20年代，圣. Joseph’s Hospital became a medical center for the Panhandle, eastern Wyoming and southern South Dakota, resulting in the east wing being built in 1925 and the west wing in 1928. 这是St. 约瑟夫医院将床位总数增加到100张，并在圣·史密斯修女会的指导下继续服务于博克斯比特县的需要，直到20世纪60年代. 弗朗西斯.

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