Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital to Celebrate 125 Years of Caring for the Community
(Tomahawk, WI) Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital in Tomahawk will celebrate 125 years of caring for the community on Thursday, September 27, with several events to celebrate the occasion.
The Community is invited to attend a Celebration Reception at 9:30 a.m., at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in the Corpus Christi Center, 320 East Washington Avenue, Tomahawk. Immediately following the reception will be a Mass at St. Mary’s at 11 a.m., with the Most Revered James Powers, Bishop of the Diocese of Superior. A Prayer and Memorial Service to honor the founding Sisters who have gone before us will be held at 1:30 p.m. at Calvary Cemetery, County Road S, Tomahawk.
“Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital has an important history of providing critical services to Tomahawk and the surrounding area,” said Sandy Anderson, president, Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital. “We welcome the community to join us as we honor the generations past and present that have made Ascension Sacred Heart a place of hope and healing.”
The tradition of Sacred Heart Hospital dates to 1893 when the Rev. Charles Hoogstoel, pastor at St. Mary’s parish, learned that the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother were planning a hospital in Rhinelander. He pleaded that they begin one in Tomahawk as well. The higher superiors of the Community of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother were pleased with the prospect and permission was granted from Bishop Messmer and Mother Frances Streitel.
In 2013 Ascension Sacred Heart and the other legacy facilities of Ministry Health Care in central and northern Wisconsin joined Ascension. Ascension is the largest non-profit health system in the U.S. and the world’s largest Catholic health system
About Ascension Wisconsin
In Wisconsin, Ascension operates 23 hospitals, more than 100 related healthcare facilities and employs more than 1,300 primary and specialty care clinicians from Racine to Eagle River. Across the state, Ascension provided more than $257 million in community benefit and care of persons living in poverty in Fiscal Year 2017. Serving Wisconsin for 170 years, Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. Ascension is the largest non-profit health system in the U.S. and the world’s largest Catholic health system, operating 2,600 sites of care – including 153 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities – in 22 states and the District of Columbia. Visit ascension.org/wisconsin.