15 - Letter from Fr. Luke Sheehan

15

Letter from Fr. Luke Sheehan

2 pp; manuscript

Letter from Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap., Bend, Oregon, on the logistical and staffing requirements for a new Catholic hospital in the region. Father Luke has sent an ‘ultimatum’ regarding the requirements for a new hospital project. He specifies the need for five nursing sisters who must not be burdened with caring for sick sisters, as they need to manage a 25-room facility with a maternity ward. This letter refers to the founding of St. Charles Hospital in Bend, Oregon. The ‘nursing sisters’ mentioned are the Sisters of St. Joseph of Tipton, Indiana, who arrived in 1919 at the invitation of the Capuchins and the Bishop to establish the city’s first permanent hospital.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition