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A LOOK BACK AT HISTORICAL MID-JERSEY BUSINESSES

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OPENED: 1874 LOCATION
: Trenton
SIGNIFICANCE: The Sisters of St. Francis opened the first
hospital in the city dedicated to provide quality hea
lth-
care, personal service, com
passion, and education.

ST. FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER
The only state-licensed, full-service cardiac program in Mercer County

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he Sisters of St. Francis of and their teachers were indeed pioneers cardiac catheterization procedures. It

Philadelphia went to Tren- in this avant-garde venture.
also ofers complex electrophysiology
ton with a mission to build Additional services include the mental procedures performed in a new hybrid lab

a school. However, when health treatment facility, which has been to diagnose and treat conditions related
they arrived, it became in continuous operation since 1956 and to the heart’s electrical system as well as

clear this community most
is the oldest established general mental robotic surgery giving patients choices
needed a hospital, so in 1874 they opened health hospital facility in the Trenton rarely seen outside a university setting.

the irst hospital in the city dedicated to area. And a credit to its long-standing ob- Dedicated to its mission, St. Francis
provide quality healthcare, personal ser- stetrics program up until 2002, countless continues to provide an extensive com-

vice, compassion, and education.
residents can claim to be a “St. Francis munity outreach program consisting of
In 1905, when nursing schools were still baby.”
education, support for parish nursing,

a brand-new idea in the United States, the Today, St. Francis has the only state- diabetic self-management programs,
Third Order of the Sisters of St. Francis licensed, full-service cardiac program in and LIFE St. Francis, a Program of All-

received a charter from the State of New Mercer County, providing a full range of Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE)

Jersey to establish a “Training School for heart services, including general cardiac that can assist seniors to live safely at
Nurses of St. Francis Hospital.” The seven diagnostics with the latest equipment home while being helped by a team of

students who comprised the irst class
for imaging and nuclear scanning, and
healthcare experts.

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