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WEBHealth care doesn't just happen in our hospitals. We have caregivers visiting the far reaches of our 32,000-square-mile service area to bring medical care to those in our …

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Longtime CEO Jim Lussier recalls proudest achievement at …

WEBThe hospital had outgrown its modest downtown location, where it was struggling to address the health care needs of a growing community. The 68-acre …

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The Sisters come to Bend – Five Catholic Sisters leave all …

WEBOn a cold, bright sunny afternoon in 1917, five nuns boarded the Pennsylvania Railroad at Kokomo, Indiana and headed west. It was Christmas Day, but the women had a …

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St. Charles chaplain witnessed the extraordinary happen …

WEBFor years, Bill Danaher has provided spiritual care for patients and their families during their time at St. Charles. As one of the health system’s long-time …

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WEBAbout St. Charles Health System. With four hospitals and more than 220 employed medical providers, St. Charles Health System is the largest provider of medical care in Central …

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The changing face of medicine

WEBThe changing face of medicine. When the architects designed St. Charles Bend in the early 1970s, they configured the building so it could be expanded to 500 beds.

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Hospital traces to humble beginnings

WEBIn the spring of 1909, Dr. Barnard Ferrell, joined Coe in practice and worked in Hall’s hospital. Bend quickly outgrew the hospital. When Hall moved to Portland in …

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Trading firewood for deliveries: OB-GYN remembers health care in …

WEBTrading firewood for deliveries: OB-GYN remembers health care in small-town Bend. Marlis Beier moved to Bend in 1983 and provided women’s health services, …

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Early St. Charles doctors had pioneer spirit

WEBThey may not have been first, but James W. Thom and John C. Vandevert were pioneer physicians who hold places in the history of Central Oregon medicine in …

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A growing mission

WEBA growing mission. When planning for a new hospital for Bend began in the late 1960s, Sister Catherine Hellmann wanted better, not just bigger. For years, St. Charles had …

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The sisters’ first test – Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 pushed …

WEBTucked between the mountains and the high desert, Bend in 1918 lay hidden from much of the outside world. But isolation wouldn’t be enough to shield the booming lumber town …

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House calls on horseback: Dr. Coe brings modern medicine to Bend

WEBCoe and Ferrell took over Hall’s hospital in 1914. They moved the hospital to a larger house on what is now Brooks Street. The Sisters of St. Joseph of Tipton, …

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Father Luke Sheehan

WEBFather Luke Sheehan. Father Luke Sheehan didn’t give up easily. Maybe it was in his blood. Born in 1873 in poverty-stricken Ireland, he joined the Franciscan order of …

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Blanche’s lessons

WEBBlanche’s lessons. People still remembered Sister Blanche Ress more than 50 years after she stepped down as superior and administrator of St. Charles Hospital. …

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The Cowboy in the Garden

WEBThe Cowboy in the Garden. Susan Long joined St. Charles Bend fresh out of nursing school and spent her entire 38-year nursing career working on the hospital’s medical unit. But …

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Fishing rod therapy

WEBFishing rod therapy. The tip of the fishing rod twitched, paused, then twitched again. It was a sensation the young man hadn’t felt for a long time.

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