Items Tagged ‘Sisters of St. Francis’

November 8, 2019

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for November 8, 2019

By Emily Blahnik Emily Blahnik (@eblahnik)

Quartz, Rare genetic mutations protected a woman from developing Alzheimer’s by Katherine Ellen Foley — This case study “leads us to think about the importance of such studies in relatively understudied populations,” says Nilufer Ertekin-Taner, a neurogeneticist with the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, who was not involved with the study. Scientific knowledge of the […]

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August 2, 2019

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for August 2, 2019

By Emily Blahnik Emily Blahnik (@eblahnik)

New York Times, How to Find a Babysitter You Can Rely On by Ellen Lee — Your sitter should also have basic first aid and CPR training and know how to respond in an emergency. The American Red Cross offers both online and in-person classes for babysitting, child care, first aid and CPR. Those who […]

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April 26, 2019

Mayo Clinic is consistently ranked as one of the top hospitals in America

By Karl Oestreich Karl Oestreich (@KarlWOestreich)

C-SPAN Mayo Clinic — Brothers William and Charlie Mayo founded the clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1889. Learn about the origins of Mayo and how it grew to become a world-renown medical facility. Reach: C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network), created in 1979 as a private, non-profit service of the cable industry, is a network dedicated […]

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Tags: C-SPAN, Dr. W. Bruce Fye, Justice Harry Blackmun, Matt Dacy, Sisters of St. Francis


May 1, 2015

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich Karl Oestreich (@KarlWOestreich)

Editor, Karl Oestreich; Assistant Editor, Carmen Zwicker Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Laura Wuotila with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News.   C-SPAN New Medicare Law and the Future of U.S. […]

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July 3, 2014

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich Karl Oestreich (@KarlWOestreich)

Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations   New York Times Medical Boards Draft Plan […]

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November 30, 2012

Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights

By Karl Oestreich Karl Oestreich (@KarlWOestreich)

    November 30, 2012 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media […]

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February 23, 2012

Catholic medical mergers raise dilemmas

By Mystery User

As Roman Catholic leaders and government officials clash over the proper role of religion and reproductive health, shifts in health care economics are magnifying the tension…In Rochester, in 1986 Mayo Clinic merged with Saint Marys Hospital, previously owned by the Sisters of St. Francis, and with Methodist Hospital in Rochester. Saint Marys has maintained its […]

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Tags: government officials, Methodist Hospital, proper role of religion and reproductive health, Roman Catholic leaders, Saint Marys Hospital, shifts in health care economics, Sisters of St. Francis


November 16, 2009

Once unsure, sisters now secure at Assisi Heights

By Kelley Luckstein Kelley Luckstein (@KelleyLuckstein)

As early as 6 a.m. on a typical morning, some members of the Sisters of St. Francis go to pray at the Lourdes Chapel at Assisi Heights, flicking on lights to illuminate the vaulted ceilings, colorful mosaics, and elegant stained glass windows.   The sisters questioned their future at their motherhouse not too long ago, […]

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November 16, 2009

Agreement with Mayo Clinic helped sisters keep motherhouse

By Kelley Luckstein Kelley Luckstein (@KelleyLuckstein)

It was just four years ago that a remarkable, noisy scene unfolded in a residential hallway at Assisi Heights in Rochester.   Wearing hard hats over gray hair, members of the Sisters of Saint Francis stood side by side with Mayo Clinic officials and, with smiles on their faces, took turns bashing holes in a […]

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November 16, 2009

Sisters still inextricably linked with Saint Marys Hospital

By Kelley Luckstein Kelley Luckstein (@KelleyLuckstein)

Life has changed for the Sisters of St. Francis at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, where 20 women still live in a convent on hospital grounds, a far cry from the roughly 125 sisters who lived there in the late 1950s and early 1960s.   “You never know you’re in a hospital,” said Sister Lauren […]

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