Sisters of Charity Hospital Emergency Room history

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo was created in 1847, and Bishop John Timon, CM, its first prelate, immediately saw the lack of an organized healthcare system in the City of Buffalo.

On 1 October 1848, Sisters of Charity Hospital officially opened as Buffalo's first large healthcare facility, under the leadership of Sister Ursula Mattingly, DC. The first patients were a group of six sailors.

In 1850, after months of public feuding between the Catholic and Protestant leaders of Buffalo, the New York State Legislature passed multiple bills denying additional funding to Sisters of Charity Hospital.

1851 – A small number of Sisters of Charity of St Augustine arrive in Cleveland, at the behest of Bishop Amadeus Rappe, the first bishop of Cleveland.

In 1854, using the state funding, the Daughters of Charity began expanding in Buffalo, founding St Mary's Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital at Elmwood and Edward Streets.

1856 – The Sisters open St Vincent Orphanage.

In 1858 Bishop Timon reached out to the Sisters of Mercy for assistance in ministering to the 10,000 Irish immigrants who had arrived in South Buffalo in the past two decades.

In 1860, Bishop Timon requested the Daughters of Charity open an institution for the mentally ill.

The Sisters founded the first private hospital, St Vincent Charity Medical Center, in 1865 in Cleveland’s Central Neighborhood where it still stands today, serving the community.

In 1869, Bishop Michael Domenec of Pittsburgh appealed to the Cincinnati community of Sisters of Charity for sisters to serve the needs of the growing Catholic population in his diocese.

Sister Aloysia Lowe, three other Sisters of Charity, and two novices, left Cincinnati and arrived in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on August 20, 1870.

1873 – The Sisters open Saint Ann Hospital and Infant Home to care for unmarried mothers and neglected children.

The ground breaking of this facility coincided with the anniversary of Monsignor Baker’s ordination to the priesthood on March 19, 1876.

An astute businesswoman, Mother Aloysia recognized the need for a larger motherhouse for her growing Congregation and purchased the Jennings Farm in Greensburg in 1882.

By 1884, the Daughters of Charity in Buffalo ran four hospitals: Sisters of Charity hospital for the sick, St Mary's Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital for orphans and unwed mothers, Providence Retreat for the mentally ill and Emergency Hospital, which opened in 1884.

A charter of incorporation was granted to the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill in 1885, and the sisters broke ground for a motherhouse the following year.

By spring of 1889, the sisters were staffing 20 parochial schools in addition to establishing Saint Mary School for Boys and Saint Joseph Academy for Girls.

Roselia Foundling and Maternity Asylum was established in 1891.

The Charity Hospital of Pittsburgh (later renamed Pittsburgh Hospital) was founded in 1897.

They opened a 30-bed hospital in a home on Tifft Street in 1904, launching Mercy Hospital of Buffalo, a South Buffalo commitment to community and care now more than a century in the making.

A part of the Niagara Community for more than a century, Mount St Mary's Hospital and Health Center began as the "Little House on the Corner" in Niagara Falls in 1907.

DePaul Institute for the Deaf (now DePaul School for Hearing and Speech) opened in 1908 at the invitation of Bishop Canevin.

Seton Junior College began in 1914.

In 1918, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania granted a charter establishing Seton Hill College (now Seton Hill University), a four-year liberal arts college for women.

When his advisors suggested it was necessary to expand the new hospital to the general community, Our Lady of Victory Hospital was born in 1920.

The opening of Providence Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1938 was the result of an extraordinary act of faith by an extraordinary collection of people.

Providence Retreat closed in 1940, and two years later the Sisters Hospital opened a branch, the St Louise de Marillac Maternity Hospital in its former building.

In 1941, they established Elizabeth Seton High School for girls in Pittsburgh.

The opening marked the culmination of a vision that began in 1944 when Rev.

The first, a 1948 addition, currently houses the hospital's Emergency Department, Family Health Center, patient rooms, and outpatient treatment areas.

Kenmore Mercy Hospital opened on October 7, 1951 on a parcel of land bequeathed to the Sisters of Mercy by James Sullivan, a former student of Sr.

The Diocese of Buffalo took possession of Emergency Hospital in 1954.

The Constitutions of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill were given definitive approval in 1957.

In 1959 the sisters took over the administration of Jeannette District Memorial Hospital (now Mercy Jeannette Hospital).

St Joseph Hospital in Cheektowaga was opened in 1960 by the Franciscan Sisters of St Joseph.

In 1965, a new hospital was opened on a 30 acre campus in Lewiston.

Originally established in 1970, Mercy Nursing Facility (MNF) responded to a need within the hospital for patients who had nowhere else to go.

In 1972, they adopted a resolution to establish a corporation for the direction and management of hospitals in the healthcare apostolate, and the Articles of Incorporation were filed in Kansas.

Previously, the Sisters used the proceeds of the sale of Saint Ann Hospital in 1973 to endow the Saint Ann Foundation, the first health care conversion foundation in the United States.

In 1976 the Congregation adopted an identifying emblem, a silver cross encircled by the inscription: Sisters of Charity * Seton Hill * The Charity of Christ Urges Us, and a ring which is worn by professed sisters.

On May 10, 1990, under the administration of Sister Angela Bontempo, the facility invoked the name of St Catherine Labouré Health Care Center.

Over 850 Daughters of Charity have served at Sisters of Charity Hospital since its founding, and continued to lead the hospital as Presidents until 1992, when the first layperson assumed the post.

McAuley Residence opened in February of 1993 and is named after the foundress of the Sisters of Mercy, Catherine McAuley.

The facility opened in 1994 and is dedicated to the memory of Monsignor Nelson Baker.

The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland was endowed in 1996 from the proceeds of a partnership involving St Vincent Charity Medical Center.

As a hospital-based nursing facility, MNF became part of Catholic Health in 1998.

Established in 1999 and formerly known as Providence Hospital Northeast, this hospital is a 74-bed fully-functioning orthopedic specialty hospital.

In 2000, the Corporation changed its name to the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System.

In 2002, Sister Sue O'Neill, DC, founded Sisters Hospital's groundbreaking massage therapy program, the first of its kind in the region.

2006 – The Saint Ann Foundation and the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland merge and blend their missions and funding priorities.

Sisters of Charity Hospital successfully merged with St Joseph Hospital in April 2009, forming a two-campus acute facility.

In 2011, the sisters transferred sponsorship of SCL Health to Leaven Ministries, a new entity (public juridic person) recognized by the Catholic Church.

In early June 2013, it was announced that the Daughters of Charity would be leaving Sisters of Charity Hospital for other ministries later that month after 166 years staffing the institution.

The new offices of the Sisters of Charity Foundation received a blessing and special dedication in November, 2015.

In February 2016, the Sisters of Charity Health System announced the completed acquisition of Providence Hospital by LifePoint Health.

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