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and it was a year before the public in general realized that it had never ceased to be operated by the Sisters and was open to private patients. The Seton School of Nursing in operation since 1902, is accredited by the State Board of Nurse Examiners and is affiliated with the University of Texas. It was incorporated as Seton Hospital School of Nursing in 1947. Started with four students, it has grown to more than sixty. The expansion begun in 1945 and still in progress, has increased its capacity to over 200 beds; the emergency room has been moved to the first floor; a blood donors' room has been installed, the whole building and additions have been modernized and the latest equipment installed. In keeping with its tradition, everything has been done to improve the service to the patients and contribute to their comfort and restoration to health. The Home of the Holy Infancy is another of the foundations that has grown from the work of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. It was Father J. Elliot Ross, C.S.P., Pastor of St. Austin's, who in speaking of the splendid work of the Sisters deplored in April, 1921, the lack of facilities to care for indigent or abandoned infants. The sugges- tion found an enthusiastic response in Mrs. Hamilton Reilly, who spoke to Mrs. James Maloy, president of the Ladies of Charity, and the Sisters. Interest aroused, the Home of the Holy Infancy was founded before the end of the year with the generous support of the Ladies of Charity, the O-We-Sow Club, Austin merchants, and public spirited citizens. A beau- tiful new building was erected in 1932, where the work is now carried on. It is owned by the Diocese of Austin and operated by the Sisters of Charity. The Seton Hospital Auxiliary was organized in 1950, with Mrs. Will E. Watt as president, for the purpose of promoting the welfare of the hospital and the community. It has the distinction of being the first auxiliary in Central Texas, and is affiliated with the Texas Association of Hospital Auxiliaries and the American Hospital Association.5' St. Vincent Hospital, Slzerma,i, 1902. Begun the year Seton formally opened in Austin, the Sherman Sanitarium, as it was originally called, was the result largely of the enthusiasm for the work of the Sisters of Dr. J. P. Gunby, a distinguished physician who had served his internship in Charity Hospital at New Orleans. Through the influence of Msgr. Joseph Blum, Pastor of St. Mary's in Sherman, and the cooperation of
MSisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Gold,,, Jubil11 [p. 47].
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