 Our
History in Timeline
Mother Mary Blandine Matelin, Sister Mary Joseph
Roussin, and Sister Mary Ange Escude arrive in Galveston,
Texas. They founded the Congregation of the Sisters of
Charity of the Incarnate Word.
In Galveston the Sisters open Charity Hospital.
It is the first Catholic hospital in the state. Only
months after opening the hospital the city is struck
by a yellow fever epidemic which takes the life of Mother
Blandine.
The name of Charity Hospital is changed to St. Mary's
Infirmary.
New St. Mary's Infirmary with 150 beds opens in
Galveston.
St. Joseph Infirmary, now St. Joseph Hospital, opens
and is Houston's first general hospital.
A new St. Joseph's Infirmary is opened in Houston.
A few months after its completion, a fire spreads from
a nearby boarding house destroying the infirmary killing
two Sisters.
Hotel Dieu Hospital is established in Beaumont.
St. Anthony's Home for the Aged is established in
Houston and later becomes St. Anthony Center.
Galveston is struck by a hurricane that kills more
than 6,000 residents, including 10 Sisters and 90 children
at St. Mary's Orphanage.
New St. Mary's Orphanage opened in Galveston.
Sisters take charge of Dr. T. E. Schumpert's 16-room
hospital and School of Nursing.
In Lake Charles, St. Patrick's Sanitarium, later
to be called St. Patrick Hospital, is dedicated on St.
Patrick's Day.
T.E. Schumpert Memorial Sanitarium, a 90-bed facility,
is dedicated on the 3rd anniversary of Dr. Schumpert's
death.
The new Michael Meager Memorial Hospital
opens in Texarkana, Arkansas.
St. Mary's Hospital, now St. Mary Medical Center,
in Long Beach, California is dedicated.
Property purchased in Ireland, Convent named St. Michael's and used for Religious vocations.
The Motherhouse, the official residence of the Mother
General and her Council, is transferred from Galveston
to Houston.
St. Mary Hospital, a 50-bed facility, is established
in Port Arthur.
St. Bernardine Hospital in San Bernardino, California,
is established.
An earthquake destroys St. Mary's Hospital in Long
Beach, California.
The Sisters purchase Beaumont General Hospital in
Beaumont, Texas, and re-open it as St. Therese Hospital.
St. Michael's convent in Ireland was designated as a Novitiate.
St. Edward-Rischar Memorial Hospital in Cameron,
Texas, is dedicated.
At the request of the Bishop of Salt Lake City,
Utah, the Sisters open a home for the aged called St.
Joseph Villa.
Having operated Meagher Memorial Hospital in Texarkana
for 32 years, the Sisters dedicated a new 127-bed facility
named St. Michael Hospital.
St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana,
opens.
Two Sisters are assigned to the San
Jose Clinic, a Catholic Charities center for Latin Americans
in Houston.
St. Elizabeth Hospital, built to replace St. Therese
Hospital and eventually Hotel Dieu, in Beaumont is dedicated.
Four Sisters are missioned to Hospital National, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
The Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word celebrate
their 100th anniversary by publishing their history, "Serving
With Gladness," by Sister Mary Loyola Hegarty.
The Congregation assumes the management and staffing
of St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Sisters begin to work at the Hospital in San Pedro Necta, Guatemala.
The CCVI Hospital Services opens on the grounds
of the Villa de Matel in Houston.
Carrigoran House in Ireland opens as
a convalescent / retirement home.
The Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate
Word Health Care System of Houston (SCH) replaces Hospital
Services as the health care corporation. A new 342-bed
Schumpert Memorial Hospital is dedicated.
El Amparo de San Jose is established in Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
Casa del Verbo Encarnado Formation House opens in Guatemala City.
Three Sisters arrive in Nassau Bay, Texas to convert
a previous Public Health Service facility situated across
from the Johnson Space Center into St. John Hospital.
St. Elizabeth Hospital in Houston is purchased from
the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.
Two Sisters begin to work at COAR, center for children, El Salvador.
Sisters begin ministry in Molo, Kenya.
Two Sisters begin ministry at El Hogar de mi Hermano, Esquipulas, Guatemala.
St. Joseph's Home for the Aged in Monroe, Louisiana,
is purchased by SCH. St. Anthony Center and St. Elizabeth
Hospital, both in Houston, Texas, have ceased to serve the
SCH mission and are closed.
SCH withdraws from St. Edward's
Hospital in Cameron. The Sisters of Charity Health Care
System begins management of Magnolia Hospital in Magnolia,
Arkansas. A ten-year lease is signed with the
Jasper Memorial Hospital District for the 95 -bed Jasper
Memorial Hospital in East Texas.
Congregation purchases property in Nairobi, Kenya. St. Catherine Convent becomes the Novitiate and the Sisters continued with Forest Edge Kindergarten.
Congregation begins ministry with the elderly in Quiche, Guatemala.
St. Mary's Hospital in Galveston, the first hospital
established by the Sisters, is sold to the University
of Texas Medical Branch. The Galveston ministry of the
Sisters continues through community-based services. St.
Mary's Hospital and St. Bernardine Medical Center in
California are transferred from the Sisters of Charity
Health Care System to Catholic Healthcare West. The Congregation,
through CHW, continues a sponsorship role.
The Congregation of the Sisters
of Charity of the Incarnate Word, Houston and the Congregation
of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, San
Antonio agree to work together to form a new co-sponsored
health care ministry. SCH purchases Huckabay Memorial
Hospital in Coushatta, Louisiana and renames the facility,
Coushatta Health Care Center.
A new health care system, CHRISTUS Health, is created
through the consolidation of the Sisters of Charity Health
Care System and the Incarnate Word Health System. The
Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate
Word cosponsors the new health system with the Congregation
of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in San
Antonio.
The Congregation opens a new orphanage in Kenya,
Africa. Elizabeth Place Children’s Center is named for
Sr. Elizabeth Ryan, one of ten Sisters who died in Galveston’s
Great 1900 Storm.
Through a unique partnership involving Baylor College
of Medicine in Houston, Constanta Municipal Hospital
in Constanta, Romania, Abbot Laboratories, and our Congregation,
a new center opened in Romania to care for children with
AIDS.
St. Bakhita Community (new Novitiate) is blessed, in Karen, Nairobi, Kenya.
A Retreat Center is opened in Sacatepequez in Guatemala.
The Novitiate in Central America is relocated to Sacatepequez, Guatemala.
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