| ST. Anthony's HISTORY |
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| St. Anthonys Hospital is owned by the Daughters of the Cross (Registered Charity No. 1068661) a Roman Catholic religious order founded in Liege, Belgium in 1833. The Order founded by Blessed Marie Therese Haze is established world-wide from Brazil to India but the English province dates from 1863. Since that time the Sisters have opened schools, hospitals, hospices and residential homes for children and adults. St. Anthonys Hospital at Cheam, Surrey, dates from 1904. |
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Other healthcare and educational facilities owned by the Daughters of the Cross.
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Holy Cross Hospital, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 INO Tel. 01428 643311 Fax. 01428 644007
The hospital works with people and the families of people who are severely physically disabled and neurologically impaired and in St.Josephs Centre, with those who are dependent on chemical substances (alcohol and other drugs) and who wish to live free of the dependence. The emphasis is on working with people to fulfil their goals no matter how severe the damage of physical disability or chemical dependency. |
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St. Elizabeths School & Home, South End, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire SG10 6EW Tel. 01279 843451 Fax. 01279 842918
St. Elizabeth cares for people with epilepsy providing modern treatment and loving care in comfortable surroundings. In the residential school the children and young people receive the care, eduational and medical support they require in order to prevent epilepsy placing unacceptable risks and unnecessary frustrations in their lives. St. Elizabeths provides bungalows for the adults where they can live in small communities. There is also an active day centre where residents are taught various creative skills and are helped to live a full and happy life.
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St. Wilfrids, 29 Tite Street, London SW3 4JX Tel. 020 7351 5339 Fax. 020 7376 5339
St. Wilfrids is the Provincial House and also a residential home for forty four men and women. The aim is to help them retain as much of their independence as possible and to offer them love, care, spiritual support and dignity in their later years.
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| Did you know... |
| Before being used as a hospital, the original building was the Lord Nelson Inn where horsedrawn coaches would stop on the London to Epsom road. |
| Mrs. Hoskins and her four year old son, both suffering from tuberculosis, were St. Anthonys first patients, they were admitted on 5 July 1904. |
| St. Anthonys was rebuilt (for the first time) in 1914 when a 100 bed four storey hospital replaced the original building making it one of the largest Catholic hospitals in the country. |
| When it was rebuilt for the second time in 1975 to a pioneering patient-centred design, St. Anthonys was one of the first hospitals to offer patients their own single bedrooms. |
| The cardiac programme began in 1975 with hundreds of patients coming from Holland, Norway and (West) Germany. |
| Since 1987, St. Raphaels Hospice, built in the grounds of St. Anthonys Hospital by the Daughters of the Cross, provides care without charge for patient with terminal illness.. |
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