January 12, 2011

In this Jonesboro (Craighead County) house located on Mathews Street on land adjacent to the convent, the Benedictine sisters of Holy Angels Convent established what is known today as St. Bernards Medical Center. Six rooms of the house were scrubbed and transformed into patient rooms, each with a cot, chair, and makeshift washstand. The hospital opened its doors on July 5, 1900.

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