Okarche Memorial Hospital
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The Felician Sisters leased, managed, and operated the small rural hospital in Okarche, OK. Hospital administrator Sister Mary Hyacinth Kozicki oversaw an expansion that provided education and training programs, as well as surgical units. In 1953, the ministry was allocated to the new Felician province in Oklahoma, but was reallocated to Coraopolis in 1962. Felician Sisters ended their ministry at Okarche Memorial in 1986.
The Felician Sisters leased, managed, and operated the small rural hospital in Okarche, OK. Hospital administrator Sister Mary Hyacinth Kozicki oversaw an expansion that provided education and training programs, as well as surgical units. In 1953, the ministry was allocated to the new Felician province in Oklahoma, but was reallocated to Coraopolis in 1962. Felician Sisters ended their ministry at Okarche Memorial in 1986.
Management of the hospital was allocated to the new Felician province in Oklahoma in 1953, but returned again in 1962 due to a shortage of sisters in healthcare ministry there.
Felician Sister Mary Consillia Stapinski with newborns in the nursery of Okarche Memorial Hospital, in Okarche, OK.
Nurse Sister Mary Dolores Nowak dispenses medication to a patient at Okarche Memorial Hospital in 1950. Felician Sisters oversaw an expansion of the hospital that provided surgical units for procedures previously undertaken in larger, urban Oklahoma hospitals.
Sister Mary Alice Sobieraj served as the superintendent of Okarche Memorial Hospital in Okarche, OK.
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Date1949 - 1986
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Content TopicOur Lady of the Sacred Heart Province - Coraopolis, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Province - Rio Rancho