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Providence Regional Medical Center Everett |
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1321 Colby Avenue |
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Everett |
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Washington |
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USA |
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98206 |
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425 261 2000 |
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Specialization Of Providence Regional Medical Center Everett
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About Providence Regional Medical Center Everett
** The Providence Story Begins **
In celebrating it's Centennial year, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, recognizes its foundresses, Mother Gamelin and Mother Joseph. These dynamic women of faith and perseverance dedicated their lives to those in need. Their legacy provides the inspirational mission for Providence Everett Medical Center today. Here are their stories.
** Triumph Through Trials **
While the presence of Providence in Everett began in 1905, the story begins a century earlier, in Quebec, Montreal, with one woman’s vision and vow to simply care for and serve others.
Émilie Tavernier was born in Montreal in 1800. At age 23, she married John Baptiste Gamelin. Happiness was short-lived; her first two children died within months of their birth. In 1827, her husband died after a long illness, and a year later her third and last child died.
In her grief, Émilie Gamelin plunged into the work of the Ladies of Charity in Montreal, an association for the relief of the city’s poor. She came to see all the poor and needy as her new family, using her home and her inheritance to shelter the orphaned, abandoned or runaway children, the mentally ill, homeless, handicapped, immigrants, and destitute people of all kinds.
After working on her own for 15 years, Emilie and the Most Reverent Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal, founded the Daughters of Charity, Servants of the Poor—known to all as the Sisters of Providence—on March 25, 1843. After pronouncing her religious vows on March 29, 1844, Emilie was appointed as the first Superior of the congregation.
The Sisters of Providence grew rapidly and achieved much under Mother Gamelin’s direction. She died of cholera on September 23, 1851. From her deathbed, she urged her Sisters to be ever mindful of the virtues she herself had embraced throughout life: "Humility, simplicity, and charity. Above all, charity."
Although Mother Gamelin founded the Sisters of Providence, it was another amazing woman—Mother Joseph—who brought the Sisters of Providence to the Northwest
** Pioneering Passion **
Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart was born Esther Pariseau on April 16, 1823 in St. Elzéar, Quebec. Raised on a farm, the third of twelve children, Esther learned many skills through her rural lifestyle: sewing, weaving, carding wool, and caring for children. In addition, her father, an expert coach maker, taught his daughter carpentry and design skills that she later applied to construction of some of the Northwest’s first hospitals and schools.
Esther decided to enter the Sisters of Providence, where as a novice, she was trained in nursing in the Sister’s pharmacy and infirmary. Her sewing skills were utilized making robes, habits and vestments, and she learned to carve fine wax figures. She also assisted the treasurer with financial matters. Additional daily tasks included marketing, baking and the laundry. In 1845, Esther Pariseau took her vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and service to the poor, and received her name in religion, Sister Joseph.
In 1856, Sister Joseph led a group of four Sisters of Providence from Montreal to the Washington Territory. Bishop Bourget dedicated the new mission in the west to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and bestowed a new name on its young superior; Sister Joseph would be known as Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Under her leadership and trusting in divine direction, more than 30 hospitals, schools and homes were opened for orphans, the elderly, and the sick in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and southern British Columbia.
Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart died on January 19, 1902, at the age of 79. Her last words to the Sisters gathered around her bed were, “My dear Sisters, allow me to recommend to you the care of the poor in our houses, as well as those without. Take good care of them; have no fear of them; assist them and receive them. Then, you will have no regrets. Do not say: Ah! this does not concern me, let others see to them. My Sisters, whatever concerns the poor is always our affair.”
** Hall of Honor **
Mother Joseph’s contributions to education, health care, and the social services continue to be recognized a century after her death. In 1980, she was named as Washington State’s second representative in National Statuary Hall, in Washington, D.C. And in 1999, at the request of a group of Vancouver sixth-grade students, the legislature passed a bill declaring her birthday, April 16, as Mother Joseph Day in Washington State.
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History Of Providence Regional Medical Center Everett
** History of Providence Hospital **
** Providence Everett Medical Center **
* In 1975, General Hospital Medical Center and
Providence Hospital began to consider a merger of
the two institutions. An extensive study was
undertaken to determine the future needs of the two
hospitals, but no further action was taken until
1994.
* 1994: Exactly 100 years after the founding of
Everett’s first hospital, General Hospital and
Providence Hospital joined forces. The merger took
effect on March 1, 1994.
Providence and General Hospitals became a new
entity, Providence General Medical Center, under
the sponsorship of the Sisters of Providence Health
Systems. General and Providence joined forces
pledging to focus on improving the health status of
the community while maintaining the quality of care
they so highly valued throughout their histories
* 2000: In the year 2000, the hospital’s name was
changed to Providence Everett Medical Center
* 2004: Providence Everett Medical Center opened a
first of its kind healthcare clinic. Providence
Everett Healthcare Clinic was established to
provide basic medical care for people in our
community who have had difficulty gaining access to
healthcare providers. Providence Everett Healthcare
Clinic welcomes patients with Medicare, Medicaid as
well as the uninsured
* 2008: Providence Everett Medical Center changed its
name to Providence Regional Medical Center Everett
Today, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett
serves patients from Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom,
Island and San Juan counties.
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