St. Francis Hospital's Quarter-Century [editorial]

Originally published in the Hawaii Medical Journal 1952 Jul-Aug;11(6):367.
Reproduced with the permission of the Hawaii Medical Association.

May 9, 1952, marked the twenty-fifth birthday of St. Francis Hospital in Honolulu. It was in 1927 that the Sisters of St. Francis opened their 50-bed hospital on Liliha Street, under the direction of Mother M. Flaviana (now deceased), with Sister M. Agapita (now in New Jersey) as Superintendent. The School of Nursing was established and accredited in 1929.

In 1939 Sister M. Jolenta, the hospital's fifth Administrator, took the helm; she has managed the institution ever since, and has seen it grow to over five times its original capacity, to its present size of 213 beds and 42 bassinets.

Operated by the Sisters with the guidance of an appointive lay Advisory Board and an elective medical Advisory Committee of 8 physicians, St. Francis serves almost half again as many non-Catholics as it does Catholic patients, and has done so from the beginning. In the past year there were 7,443 admissions, 1,261 births, 3,466 surgical operations, and 18,572 out-patient visits.

The JOURNAL extends anniversary congratulations to the Sisters of St. Francis and their Hospital and wishes them success and Godspeed in their next quarter-century of effort in behalf of the community they have so ably served these twenty-five years past.

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