The Sisters of St.Mary's Hospital

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In 1912, a tiny band of Pallottine Missionary Sisters left their home in Bremerhaven, Germany, bound for America. They barely missed sailing on the ill-fated Titanic, fortunately booking passage on a later ship. Arriving in this country, thet went to Stella Niagara, New York, where they learned English, then came to West Virginia where they opened hospitals in Richwood and Buckhannon, In 1924, the Sisters came to Huntington and opened a 35 bed hospital. In the hospital's earliest years, the Sisters did all the work. They nursed the sick and injured, cooked, served, washed, ironed, cleaned, fired the clunky coal furnace and even grew their own fruits and vegetables. Today, the tiny hospital they founded has evoled into St.Mary's Medical Center, the largest medical facility in Huntington, one of Cabell County's largest private employers and, at 393 beds, one ot the largest health care facilities in Wes Virginia.

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