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Little Company of Mary. Venerable Mary Potter. The Little Company of Mary, also known as the Blue Sisters, is a Catholic religious institute of women dedicated to caring for the suffering, the sick, and the dying. [1][2] The order was founded in 1877 in Nottingham, England by Mary Potter.
The hospital was founded on January 19, 1930, by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary [1] and serves much of the southwest side of Chicago. In the early 20th century, the hospital—which was then segregated—refused to allow Dr. Arthur Falls Sr. to perform surgery on Dorothy Day, which both she and Falls protested.
Little Company of Mary Hospital (Torrance) Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center is a Roman Catholic hospital in Torrance, California, United States. The hospital was founded by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary, and is part of the Providence Health & Services system.
The Sisters of the Company of Mary, Our Lady are the members of a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Jeanne de Lestonnac (1556-1640) in France in 1607. The Order's mission is education, focused on the person in all their uniqueness. The members of the Order use the initials O.D.N. (Latin: Ordinis Dominae Nostrae) after their names.
Little Company of Mary Hospital is a hospital in San Pedro, California, US. The hospital was founded in 1909 by Mrs. Lillian B. Mullen, a graduate nurse and physician from New York. The hospital began in the old Clarence Hotel. The first building constructed for the hospital was located on Sixth St. and was dedicated in 1925.
On June 17, 1950, Little Company of Mary Hospital, located at 2800 W. 95th St. in Evergreen Park, was the site of the world's first successful organ transplant. Dr. Richard Lawler, MD, an exceptional surgeon at Cook County Hospital, led a team of doctors that performed the hazardous and highly controversial operation. In order to prepare for ...
Richard H. Lawler, M.D. (August 12, 1895 — July 24, 1982) led a surgical team at Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, Illinois, that performed on June 17, 1950, what Time magazine described as "the first human kidney transplant on record." [1] With surgeons James West and Raymond Murphy, Lawler transplanted a kidney from a just ...
St. James Hospital was established in 1907 in Pontiac, Illinois, moving to a new facility in 2002 as present day OSF Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center. St. Mary's Hospital was established in 1909 in Galesburg, Illinois, and moved to a new facility in 1974, where it is today OSF St. Mary Medical Center.