VERMONT: Winooski-Colchester and Burlington
Fanny Allen Hospital (1894 - ) and Bishop DeGoesbriand Hospital (1924 -)
Fanny Allen Hospital, in Winooski (Colchester), was founded in 1894 by five RHSJ. from the Montreal Hotel Dieu, who gave it the name Fanny Allen, in honour of the first American who entered the RHSJ congregation, the daughter of General Ethan Allen. At the request of the diocesan bishop, the sisters accepted to care for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged of the era in the Dunbar Hotel, transformed into a hospital; the attic was used as a dormitory for the sisters until the construction of a convent in 1908.
In 1924, the RHSJ accepted the administration of Bishop DeGoesbriand Hospital, constructed in Burlington, a few kilometres from Winooski. For many years, the sisters lived on the 4th floor of the hospital. They founded and administered a School of Nursing, the Jeanne Mance School of Nursing, until its integration into the University program in 1972. In 1965, the two hospitals, DeGoesbriand and Mary Fletcher were amalgamated to form the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont. For several years the Sisters worked there, as well as in the Nursing School of the University of Vermont. The old wooden hospital, Fanny Allen, enlarged and renovated throughout the years, was used until the construction in 1968 of a modern hospital, where patients needing medical care or urgent surgery are still looked after. Fanny Allen Hospital is a member of the Covenant Health System since its merger with the Medical Centre Hospital of Vermont and the Health Centre of the University; the complex thus formed is known as the Fletcher Allen Health Care Complex. Fanny Allen Campus is a vital part of the Fletcher Allen Health System. Its services include: an ambulatory centre, a department of radiology with all its services, five operating rooms for day surgery, 35 beds for inpatients in an acute phase and a rehabilitation centre and therapies for outpatients. An article of the merger contract stipulates that the Fanny Allen Campus is a Catholic Institution which respects and promulgates the mission, values and heritage of the RHSJ. A foundation has been established to this end by the Fanny Allen Corporation.

ILLINOIS - CHICAGO
St. Bernard Hospital (1903 - )
	In the summer of 1903 Father Bernard Murray, pastor of St. Bernard Parish in the Englewood area of Chicago, with permission from Archbishop James Edward Quigley, invited the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph of Kingston, Ontario, to open a hospital in his parish. Archbishop Charles Gauthier of Kingston gave his permission for seven sisters, Sisters Anne Hopkins, Mary of the Sacred Heart (Catherine Leahy), Elizabeth Norris, Gertrude Leahy, Hellen Jarrell, Mary Anne Blaney and Sarah Farrell, to open this needed hospital. They left Kingston on November 21, 1903, one hundred years ago. For many years the Sisters ran a School of Nursing but this was discontinued to make it an up-to-date facility in every way. The original 1904 building still stands.
Over the years St. Bernard Hospital was effected by the economic and demographic changes in their neighbourhood. The Englewood area around St. Bernard Hospital had deteriorated with the upkeep of houses poor and the shells of homes destroyed by fire left standing. The City of Chicago leveled some of these buildings and the C.E.O. of St. Bernard Hospital envisioned new affordable single-family homes on these empty lots. St. Bernard Housing Development Corporation was formed and in partnership with civic and private agencies plans were made to build 90 single-family homes. As we begin 2003 thirty -nine houses have been completed and another 23 are either under construction or under contract. Another project planned for 2003 is the start-up of a Pediatric Mobile Healthcare Unit to provide medical care to children in the neighbourhood.

St. George Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, 1938 - 1972

In 1938, because of overcrowding at St. Bernard Hospital in Chicago, the R.H.S.J. were asked by the Doctors Meyers to open St. George Hospital in the Auburn Park area. Sisters Mary Kelly, Mary McGrath, St. Gerard (Elizabeth Fitzsimmons) and Pauline Dewes were the foundresses of this new mission. As the needs in the area changed St. George Hospital closed after the opening of the Palos Community Hospital in Palos Park, Illinois.

MONTANA
Polson - St. Joseph Hospital (1916-1983)
	In 1916 the Religious Hospitallers of Kingston invited by Father William O’Malley of Polson, Montana, and Bishop John Carroll of Helena, Montana to open a hospital on the shores of FlatheadLake in western Montana. Sisters were needed to provide health care to Blackfeet Indians and other members of the fast growing community. Three sisters: Sisters St. Joseph, Mary of the Sacred Heart, and Gertrude Leahy went from Hotel Dieu, Kingston, Ontario to open this mission. In 1983 because of a shortage of vocations, our Sisters withdrew from this mission. The hospital is now in the hands of the Sisters of Providence of Seattle.

WISCONSIN 1. Hartford - Memorial Hospital (1926-1971)
In April 1926 at the invitation of the Hartford community (a German farming community) and Archbishop S.G. Messmer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Sisters of Hotel Dieu, Kingston, accepted a new mission in this small Wisconsin city about 35 miles from Milwaukee. Three sisters: Sisters Hazelton, McCarten and St. Osvald began this new ministry in a 16-bed hospital already in progress. During their tenure, 1926-1971, 2 additions were added to the small hospital. In 1971 the hospital was returned to the community and is now known as Hartford Memorial Hospital.

New London, Wisconsin New London Hospital (1929-1975)

Bishop Paul R. Rhode was bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, when he gave permission for Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph of Chatham, N.B., to open a mission in New London, Wisconsin in February 1929. Three sisters from Chatham, N.B. : Sisters Dwyers, Murdoch and Hickey opened this ministry. In 1931 our sisterms had a new bed hospital built in this small Wisconsin town of 6,000 and added a new wing in 1962. The Community Hospital was handed back to the community in 1975.

New London Saint-Joseph Residence Inc. (1967 - )
In 1967 the sisters took over the administration of a separate 107-bed nursing home in New London that became known as St. Joseph Residence Inc. This site now includes the Marian Heights Apartments for independent living (opened in 1968) and Trinity Terrace for assisted living, which opened in 1995.

3. Antigo, Wisconsin (1933 - ) Langlade Memorial Hospital (1933 - )

When the doctors and businessmen in Antigo, Wisconsin, some 75 miles north of New London, WI, heard of the quality health care given to the residents in New London, they invited our sisters from Chatham, N.B. to administer their hospital in Antigo. In March 1933 three Religious Hospitalllers from Chatham, N.B.: Sisters MacIntosh, Martin and Rideout, with the permission of Bishop Paul Rhode, Green Bay, began their new ministry in Antigo int the Langlade County Memorial Hospital. In 2003 our sisters continue their mission in this hospital now called the Langlade Memorial Hospital, and have enlarged their ministry to include new services of Hospice Jerome LeRoyer, for the care of the dying in 1944 as part of the hospital; Pinemeadow, an assisted living facility for 40 people in 1993, with adjacent Rosalia Gardens Retirement Centre, and 18 bed retirement home, added in 1999.

MAINE 1. Hôtel-Dieu, Van Buren (1938-1954)

In 1938, the RHSJ having been in Madawaska since 1873, began a new foundation for the first time. They decided to respond to a call from a small locality in the United States, situated along the Saint John River about 50 km. south of Saint Basile. On December 16, 1938, five Sisters from Hotel Dieu left Saint Basile to establish a small hospital of thirty beds in the residence of Miss Azélle Thibodeau in Van Buren, Maine. The devotion of the Hospitallers of Saint Joseph towards the people of the region was recognized as beneficial. Nevertheless, the very rudimentary installations could only be temporary. Not being able to construct a hospital, the Sisters definitively closed the small Van Buren Hotel Dieu on July 31, 1954.

2. Biddeford (1948 - 1982) Notre-Dame Hospital (1948-1982)

Monsignor Décarie, pastor in Biddeford, with the collaboration of Fahter Fecteau, p.s.s., chaplain of a religious community, requested that the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph of Montreal come to establish a hospital for the French-speaking catholics of his parish on property he donated for $1.00. Sisters Barcelo, Bilodeau and Massie arrived from Montreal in October 1948 and lived with the Presentation Sisters while an old farm house was being renovated for them to occupy. Two major challenges awaited these founding Sisters. The region already had two hospitals : the Webber Hospital in Biddeford and the other in Saco which was an osteopathic hospital. However, the Catholic wanted an hospital with 150 beds. The fund-raising campaign launched were too ambitious, reducing the proposed hospital project to 50 beds where English was the written language for all communications. Thus, the Notre Dame Hospital opened its doors in 1951. In 1961, with the closing of the two cotton and woolen mills, the region became impoverished and the financial problems of the French-speaking hospital became serious. In 1969, this institution became part of the Webber hospital as a long-term care facility. The Sisters returned to live in the original house; two continued to work in the Notre Dame unit, two others at the Webber Hospital and four others began to work with the poor in the Saco region.

3. Saco (1982 - 1999)

In 1982, the Sisters in Biddeford decided to move to Saco where they purchased a convent in the Most Holy Trinity parish. They opened a thrift shop for the poor where they received clothing, furniture, appliances, food, etc. With the collaboration of lay volunteers, the Sisters also organized hot meals in the parish. In October 1999, the Sisters left Saco and became members of the Fanny Allen community in Colechester, Vermont. However, the lay persons in Saco were committed to pursuing the work for the poor initiated by the sisters. Thanks to their persevering and discrete services, the R.H.S.J. contributed to creating a new spirit of services for the poor and collaboration within the area, breaking the ethnic barriers and establishing codial relationships between the French and English speaking population.