Joseph Medical Center, the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother and the Sisters St. On October 1, 1995, the sponsoring ministries of St. According to the Via Christi Health website, "The Wichita-based Sisters maintain a motherhouse in Wichita and continue their ministries at Via Christi's hospitals as well as other ministries to serve low-income individuals and those escaping domestic violence." Formation of Via Christi Health The Congregation exercises its health care ministries through Ascension Health. Joseph of Wichita joined six other congregations to form the Congregation of St. In 2013, to reflect the hospital's heritage, it was changed to Via Christi Hospital St. In 2009, due to its location on East Harry Street, its name was changed to Via Christi Hospital on Harry. Joseph Hospital with the completion of a seven-story medical tower in 1976. The hospital's patients were cared for at St. Although the hospital was repaired and remodeled after the disaster, it was closed permanently in 1961. A tornado destroyed Wichita Hospital's east wing in 1953, which caused the hospital to close temporarily. Joseph Hospital near Harry and Clifton in Wichita, which was seen as an expansion of Wichita Hospital. In 1921, the Sisters assumed ownership of Ponca City Hospital, a 14-bed hospital in Ponca City, Oklahoma.īy 1925, the Sisters had become responsible for Wichita Hospital, which had been founded by the Ladies' Benevolent Society in the 1800s near Douglas and Seneca in Wichita. The hospital expanded in 1908 and again in 1916. In 1903, they transitioned into health care and opened Mt. Joseph of Wichita opened a school in Newton, Kansas in 1883. Sisters from the congregation came to the United States in 1836. Joseph was formed by six women under the direction of a Jesuit priest, Jean Pierre Medaille, in Le Puy-en-Velay, France, in 1650. The first congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph and Health Care in Kansas and Oklahoma The Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother have continued their growth in the health care and education ministries in the United States as well as internationally. Today, the hospital is known as Ascension Via Christi St. In 2009, the hospital's name was changed to Via Christi Hospital on St. The hospital has expanded several times and now surrounds the chapel. In 1947, the Chapel of the Sorrowful Mother was opened on the hospital grounds. In 1893, the Sisters purchased a new building and began expanding the services of St. The Sisters soon took over operations and the hospital became profitable. In 1889, the Sisters learned of a dilapidated 12-bed, three-story house named St. A few years later, Mother Streitel began sending Sisters to America. Frances Streitel founded a community in 1883 that, by 1885, had come to be known as the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother. History Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother and St. It is the largest provider of health care services in Kansas and employs more than 6,000 in its hospitals, physician offices and health services in Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. Ascension Via Christi Health is a Catholic-sponsored health care system fully owned by Ascension Health.
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