The Lourdes Health System consists of two hospitals, Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, New Jersey and Lourdes Medical Center in Burlington County in Willingboro, New Jersey. The administrative offices are located at his Camden facility. The Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, New York established a health system in 1950 and were members of Trinity Health.
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Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, a 410-bed teaching hospital that opened on 1 July 1950, is located at 1600 Haddon Avenue, in Camden.
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Lourdes County Burlington Medical Center
Located at 218 A Sunset Road in Willingboro, Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County is a community hospital with 249 beds.
Other entities
Lourdes Wellness Center
Founded in 1979, the Lourdes Wellness Center combines mainstream medicine, alternative therapies, and spirituality to promote a healthy lifestyle. This center, which averages more than 30,000 a year, offers acupuncture, massage, yoga, health education programs and community-based services.
In addition, the center is home to integrative family medicine practice and the Lourdes Institute of Wholistic Studies, which offers Associate degrees in Massage Therapy and certificate programs in massage therapy, reflexology and yoga teacher training. This center has facilities at Collingswood.
Nursing School Our Lady of Lourdes
Since its opening in 1961, Our Lady of Lourdes Nursing School has graduated more than 1,200 nurses. Located in New Lady's critical care center Our Lourdes Medical Center, this is the only Catholic-oriented nursing school in southern New Jersey. Students have the opportunity to simultaneously obtain a Nursing Diploma and Associate Degree in science from Camden County College. Graduates are eligible to apply for the New Jersey State Board of Nursing examination for registered nursing licenses and to enter into a baccalaureate nursing program with transfer credits.
The school is accredited by the New Jersey Board of Nursing and the National League for Nursing.
Outreach program
As a faith-based institution, the Lourdes Health System devotes a lot of resources to help those less fortunate. The outreach program provided by Lourdes Health System has won many recognitions, including the 1995 Foster G. McGaw Prize of the American Hospital Association. Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center is the country's first Catholic hospital that won this award for excellence in community service. These outreach programs include:
- The H.O.P.E project (Homeless Outreach Enrichment Program): Beginning in 1993, this initiative provides medical, social, and advocacy services for homeless Camden, N.J. through clinics, mobile health cars and other road outs. Clients receive comprehensive medical care, physical examination, tuberculosis and HIV testing, STD evaluation and treatment, drug and alcohol counseling, work counseling, housing referral services and food and clothing distribution.
- Public Health Practices : Clinics of all these volunteers provide primary and special medical care for families that are not insured or underinsured. The main purpose of the practice is to provide care until the patient obtains insurance coverage through employment, government assistance or other forms of assistance. Some patients are homeless that Lourdes aids in finding jobs and housing. This practice serves more than 1300 patients annually.
- Osborn Family Health Center : Established in 1974 to provide optimal prenatal care for Camden women and primary care for their families, the Osborn Family Health Center offers family practice, obstetrics/gynecology, paediatrics, testing laboratory and social services at a facility across the street from Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center. Osborn serves more than 15,000 patients and handles 45,000 appointments every year. This is a private practice, treating individuals with appointments, rather than walking clinics. Patients are seen by doctors staff employed by health centers, not by medical residents or rotating staff. This allows better doctor-patient relationships and leads to better long-term care. Osborn distributes thousands of books annually to pediatric patients through Reach and Read programs and secondhand clothing through boutiques run by a volunteer.
- Bridge : This program addresses the needs of at-risk youth in Camden and surrounding communities. The Bridge was founded in 1979 to provide a safe place for young people to freely talk about their concerns and problems they face and to help them develop leadership skills. Bridges begin with weekly drop-in sessions, but have been extended to offer programs in collaboration with schools, churches, businesses, community agencies and law enforcement. The Bridge works closely with the Camden District Prosecutor Office , offering non-violence and anti-bullying programs to schools.
- Senior Dining Program : This program at Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County offers discounted meals provided at the hospital cafeteria. This program is designed to increase elderly access to nutritious food, provide socialization and screening and health information.
- Parish Healthcare : This program works with denominational congregations to promote healthy lifestyles, provide information about available resources and encourage individuals to assume primary responsibility for their own health. Educational session participants include registered nurses, licensed practice nurses, health ministry parishes and others who have working knowledge of parish nursing and the health ministry. Lourdes conducts this session along with La Salle University. Participants are taught to focus on the whole person when emphasizing health, disease prevention, health promotion and healing, connecting the interconnectedness of mind, body and soul. Successfully trained parish nurses can help members of the congregation access and navigate the health system; institutionalize programs to promote healthy lifestyles and support groups; provide education on health issues; provide a selected medical examination; and support family members who are hospitalized or at home.
Sponsors
The Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, New York, tracked their beginnings until April 25, 1859, when, in the Chapel of St. Francis. Bonaventure College and Seminary, Pastor Pamfilo da Magliano, OSF, gave the custom of the Third Order of St. Francis and the name, Sister Mary Joseph, to Mary Jane Todd. Father Pamfilo, Provincial Custos, from the Minor Province of the Immaculate Conception Custody, came with three other monks to western New York in 1855 at the invitation of Bishop John Timon, CM, of the Diocese of Buffalo and Nicholas Devereux, a lay Catholic and a layman soil. The monks came to educate the youth at St. Bonaventure and continued pastoral work in the area. Bishop Timon also asked Father Pamfilo to "search for Third Order Sisters" to educate young women in the area, and his quest led him to form a new trial in Allegany, New York.
After the adoption of Sister Mary Joseph, Ellen Fallon was accepted on June 24, 1859, and took the name of Sister Mary Bridget. A few months later, these two sisters joined Mary Anne O'Neil, a 15-year-old girl from New Jersey who had been persuaded by Pastor Pamfilo, "to be generous with God even though he was young." Mary Anne was accepted on December 8, 1859, and took the name of Sister Mary Teresa.
These three women formed the core of a new community that immediately began to attract other young women from the surrounding area. From the beginning of the trial, the sisters were under the jurisdiction of Father Pamfilo. He appointed officers from a new community until 1865, when he presented the nuns with their first law, which had been adapted from the Franciscan Sisters in Glasgow, Scotland. That same year, the Sisters chose Sister Mary Teresa O'Neil as their general superior, who served in this capacity for 55 years.
New communities are growing, and sisters are trying to serve the needs of the church in various ministries. In 1860, St. Elizabeth Academy opened in Allegany for the education of young women, and from this beginning the sisters branched out to open schools in Connecticut, New York and other East Coast states. In 1879 three sisters were sent to Jamaica and the West Indies, and the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany became the first religious women congregation established in America to send sisters to foreign missions.
In the 1880s and 1890s, the sisters were affiliated with hospitals in Boston and New York City. They are also extended to homes for young and old, pastoral and social work. Many of these ministries, including health care, continue today.
History
Southern New Jersey experienced rapid growth in populations shortly before and during World War II. Many of the new population are Catholic, and their fast currents demand the formation of new parishes and facilities. In the early 1940s, Bishop Bartholomew J. Eustace invited the Franciscan Sisters Allegany to build a hospital in Camden diocese. Bishop Eustace knew the sisters when they took care of his mother during his final years at their hospital, St. Elizabeth, in New York City.
In December 1945, the Dominican Sisters of the Eternal Rosary agreed to sell a portion of their property on Haddon Avenue and Euclid Street in Camden to the Third Order of Regular St. Francis of Allegany, New York for the construction of a hospital. Construction began in September 1947, with Bishop Eustace laying the foundation a year later.
On March 15, 1950, 2 1/2 years after damaged land for Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, the construction was completed in a hospital with 300 beds. On May 28, Bishop Eustace led a service ceremony attended by 3,000, including several hundred priests, doctors and civilian leaders. Writing above the main entrance, "The Body Is Often Treatable - The Soul Has Ever Been," speaks to a new hospital commitment to Franciscan values.
The diocese collects $ 1 million, or a quarter of the cost of a new hospital. The Franciscan Sisters assumed more than $ 3 million in debt. Reverend Mother Jean Marie Greeley appointed Mother Mary Paracleta as first hospital administrator. He served on the post until 1969, and was the driving force behind Lourdes's early growth.
Camden is a thriving city when Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center is planned and built. However, in the 1960s, Camden became a prey to the decline of urban manufacturing and the exodus of middle-class citizens to the suburbs.
The Franciscan Sisters realized there was a need to develop a high-quality specialized service that would draw patients from all over southern New Jersey. This service will support the hospital's mission to stay in Camden and provide quality care to its residents while also serving the ever-growing suburban population. The hospital develops several regional services to maintain the organization, including cardiology, high-risk pregnancies, physical rehabilitation, dialysis and organ transplantation.
The facility itself has been expanded and improved many times to meet the needs of the community.
Planning for the addition of the School of Nursing began in 1956. The first stone laying for the school took place in 1959 on a medical center campus, and the first nursing class was accepted in 1961. "We may sometimes wonder why sisters start such major projects , "Camden Bishop Justin J. McCarthy said during the groundbreaking ceremony of the school. "They always want to do a great job for God, I'm sure the nurses trained here will get a true sense of Christian charity spirit, let's not forget that the nurses are the right hands of the doctors."
From 1970-1971, the hospital experienced the first of several renovations, a $ 2 million project for intensive care, cardiac care and surgical recovery areas. In 1976, the medical center completed a construction project worth $ 6.9 million. The addition of four floors is housed in a new 50 bed rehabilitation center, as well as an expanded outpatient and emergency department. In 1988, the medical center completed a three-year renovation and expansion, $ 42 million covering two new patient floors; wide solarium; new pediatrics, inpatient dialysis and mental health units; female service floor; new heart service floor; a larger and more modern patient room throughout the medical center; new radiology and laboratory equipment; and new nursing stations.
Two years later, Angel's Alley, one of the region's first hospital-based care centers, was opened. Angel's Alley not only looks at employee children, but also those from residential neighborhoods, enabling their parents to get a chance to find productive and profitable jobs economically.
In 1999, the Ambulatory Maintenance Center Sister M. Elizabeth Corry opened at Haddon Avenue from the hospital. The 46,000 square foot (4,300m 2 ) building, named for the presidency of old medical centers, the homes of the Osborn Family Health Center, outpatient dialysis and organ transplant facilities.
In 2005, Lourdes opened a $ 60 million expansion equipped with new emergency departments, operating rooms, patient rooms, laboratories and Nursing Schools. Also in 2005, Lourdes, now with 410 beds, became the first hospital in the Delaware Valley to obtain a 64-slice CT scanner.
Expand missions
For more than four decades, Burlington County residents rely on Lourdes Medical Center in Burlington County for their inpatient and outpatient care.
The hospital was founded by a group of 11 doctors, led by Meyer Abrams, M.D., who feels the need to build a hospital in Willingboro, Burlington County. The original Rancocas Valley Hospital opened in August 1961 and has 100 beds, an operating room, a maternity ward and emergency room. Finally, the group of doctors sold their interest in the hospital, all that remained as an active member of the medical staff.
Over the years, the hospital underwent several changes in ownership and leadership. Willingboro risked losing the hospital when the owner, Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation declared bankruptcy in the late 1990s. Lourdes bought the hospital in 1998 for $ 45 million.
Immediately after purchasing the facility, Lourdes invested $ 20 million in a new critical care building. The expansion, which includes six sophisticated operating rooms, the same operating center, a 12-bed recovery unit and an expanded 20 bed flexible care unit opened in May 2001. In December 2002, the hospital was renamed Lourdes Medical Center in Burlington County and became a Catholic hospital following dedication and blessing by Rev. John Smith, Bishop of Trenton.
In 2003, the medical center opened a new $ 1.5 million cardiac catheterization laboratory and a new magnetic resonance imaging center, which expanded the hospital's diagnostic capabilities. In 2005, along with AcuityHealthcare of Charlotte, N.C., the facility opened a Lourdes Special Hospital in Southern New Jersey, the region's first unit for long-term acute care patients.
The hospital has developed one of the region's leading cancer programs with a range of diagnostic and treatment services, as well as community outreach and support initiatives. They include patient navigator programs; opened a caring boutique to help cancer patients from across Burlington County with their aesthetic, physical and emotional needs; develop a resource center; and expand community lectures and support options.
Eastern Catholic Health
In 1998, Lourdes joined Catholic Health East (CHE), a multi-institutional Catholic health system sponsored by 10 religious congregations and Hope Ministries, a public juridical figure in CHE. Based in Newtown Square, P.A., the system provides the means to ensure continued Catholic identity and operational strength of the sponsoring health ministry, located in 11 eastern states from Maine to Florida.
CHE includes 33 acute care hospitals, four long-term acute care hospitals, 36 hospital-based and free long-term care facilities, 12 assisted living facilities, five continuous care communities, seven health facilities and behavioral rehabilitation, 25 health/home homes care, and many outpatient and community-based outpatient services. The Catholic Eastern Health Facility employs approximately 50,000 full-time employees.
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