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In 1894, the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph founded the Fanny Allen Hospital in Colchester. They named their hospital after Fanny Allen (daughter of Ethan Allen), a nun who nursed wounded American soldiers in the War of 1812. This site, now referred to as the Fanny Allen Campus, has an Urgent Care Center, Ambulatory Surgery Center and ...
Fanny Allen Hospital, Colchester, VT-Sponsored by the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph. Fanny Allen Hospital merged with Mary Fletcher Hospital to become Fletcher Allen Health Care, now part of the University of Vermont Medical Center.
Frances Margaret "Fanny" Allen, RHSJ (November 13, 1784 – September 10, 1819) was the first New England woman to become a Catholic nun. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The daughter of Revolutionary War officer Ethan Allen , she converted to Catholicism and entered the Montreal convent of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph in 1811.
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Michaud completed and dedicated the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in 1867. He built the Fanny Allen Hospital in Colchester, Vermont and staffed it with nuns from the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph. The Sisters of Charity from Providence, Rhode Island, operated another new hospital in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
The first hospital opened in 1912, had 14 beds and was used until 1915. [16] The second hospital opened in 1915, had 25 beds and was used until 1921. The third hospital opened in 1921 and was used until 1953-54. The fourth hospital was built and opened in 1953-54 and was in use until it closed in October 1990.