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Beacon Light: January 1967, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Letter from the administrator showing an increases in employees wages
• Memorials for deceased staff
• List of completed hospital expansion projects
• Updates from the hospital's credit union
• Information on the hospital's executive committee
• List of scholarship recipients

Beacon Light: December 1966, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Retirement Maude Lepinski Messenberg
• Nursing students attend an institute held in Minneapolis
• St. Cloud hospital enters a joint computer operation agreement with 8 Twin Cite hospitals
• Announcement of an extension of the Nurse Aide Preservice Program
• Hospital hosted teachers for Business Education Day

Beacon Light: November 1966, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Our credit union story
• Profile on Drs. Alan Espelien and James Kline
• New equipment purchases
• Overview of the hospital Chaplin role
• Nursing students attended a seminar on birthing defects

Beacon Light: October 1966, St. Cloud

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• Profile on the role of doctors in the organization
• Overview of the print shop
• Update on the hospital extension process
• Practical Nursing Program started
• Information on the hospital credit union

Beacon Light: September 1966, St. Cloud Hospital

Beacon Light

• Feature on Drs. Dwight Jaeger and Severin Koop
• Staff development in nursing organized
• Institute held to improve nursing home care
• New nursing supervisors
• Updates and additional information on the hospital expansion project

Beacon Light: June 1966, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Feature on John Lansing (Elevator Operator)
• Story on Catholic Hospital Association exhibit
• Heart disease profile
• Article planned parking lot extension
• Medical Record Liberians institute
• Minnesota Conference of Catholic Hospitals Meeting
• Bids begin for hospital extension
• List of new employees

Beacon Light: May 1966, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Computer's in the hospital
• Profile on the Storeroom Clerk job
• Hospital hosts Clergy of St. Cloud
• Purchasing for Patient Care
• Sisters attend middle management institute
• List of new employees
• Hospital holds classes for expecting parents

Beacon Light: April 1966, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Profile on National Hospital Week
• Hildegard Theis honored for 25 years of employment
• Story on a returned volunteer from Vietnam
• Talk given by Mrs. Robert Joyce
• List of new employees
• Study conducted on Diabetes

Beacon Light: March 1966, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Oswald Brixius honored for 25 years of employment
• Job value calculated
• Meal service careers profiled
• Explorer Scouts begin volunteering
• Feature on the hospital's Blood Bank
• Story on the hospital's new cash register
• Suggestion awards granted
• Anesthesia Personnel Care For People
• Employee Salaries Studied
• List of new staff members

Beacon Light: February 1966, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Staff appointments
• Ward Clerk job overview
• Anesthesia department acquires new equipment
• Housekeeping process explained

Annual Report: 1966 Report To Community, St. Cloud Hospital

Annual Report

Report to Community. Statistics of conditions treated at St. Cloud Hospital in 1966

Annual Report: 1966, St. Cloud Hospital

Annual Report

Statistics of conditions treated at St. Cloud Hospital in 1966

Beacon Light: January 1966, St. Cloud Hospital

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• The School of X-Ray Technology holds capping ceremony
• Personnel promoted
• Overview on Physical Therapy Department
• Profile on the Drug Abuse Control Amendment law
• Personnel Advisory Committee elected
• Feature on Pharmacy careers
• Grace Weiss Scholarships awarded

Beacon Light: December 1965, St. Cloud Hospital

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• S. Rebecca OSB publishes an article in the American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy
• Profile on Sisters Bernadine and Davidica OSB
• Article on In-Service training
• Update on renovations
• Hospital hosts teachers from local schools
• List of new employees
• Kathryn Vogt named Minnesota nursing student of the year

Beacon Light: November 1965, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Management improvement class offered to supervisors
• Profile on the cafeteria's vending machines
• Hospital acquires an IL Flame Photometer
• Work measurement program issues recommendations
• New insurance program
• List of new employees

Beacon Light: October 1965, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Profile on the St. Mary's Physicians Guild
• Nursing staff update attire
• Second Grant obtained for expansion project
• Opening of a print shop
• Article on the 27th Annual State Convention of the Minnesota Society of X-Ray Technicians
• List of new employees
• Disability Income Plan explained

Beacon Light: September 1965, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Hospital surveyed by Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals
• Profile on Dr. Joseph Belshe and Dr. Paul Moran
• Feature on Medical Technology careers
• Staff promotions
• Lab and Records Department renovated
• Hospital building project announced

Beacon Light: June 1965, St. Cloud Hospital

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Suggestion Committee Picks Two Winners

Why I Like My Job

Salary Increase - Disability Income Program Boost Hospital Employee Earning

Protection From The Elements

Hospital Key Man

These Folks Know Their Hospital Family

OL' Timer Tells His Story

Beacon Light: May 1965, St. Cloud Hospital

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Education Programs Made To Order For Everyone

News About Blue Cross And Blue Shield

Why I Like My Job

Introducing Doctor Kuhnert

Nursing Students Receive Awards

Instructor With County Interests

Report From The Diocesan Council Of Catholic Nurses

Beacon Light: April 1965, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Convent altar consecrated
• Courtesy spotlight featuring Henry Lutgen (Chief Engineer)
• Reflections from the Catholic Hospital Association's regional Personnel Institute
• St. Cloud hospital takes advantage of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
• Story concerning two sisters serving as lobby hostesses
• Brief biographies on select sisters working for the hospital
• Pictures from the March 8 snow storm (31in)
• Mississippi river floods the St. Cloud area on April 12 1964
• Hospital receives two wheel chairs from the Woodmen of the World
• National hospital week list of activates
• Updates from the school of nursing

Beacon Light: March 1965, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Suggestion committee grants awards
• Courtesy spotlight featuring Marie Nelson (Nurse Aide)
• Radio-Isotope Laboratory opens
• Office Personnel guests of hospital
• Brief biographies on the Sisters working in the hospital
• Frances Schultenover retired
• Feature on the laundry department
• Task force for the night hours
• First annual meeting saint cloud hospital employees credit union
• Pictures of new hospital employees

Beacon Light: February 1965, St. Cloud Hospital

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• National league for Nursing Department (NLN) accreditor visits the school of nursing
• Hospital acquires a Xerox 813 copier
• Why I like my job
• Committee to study nursing functions
• Note to school of nursing alumnae
• Brief information on various Sisters working at the hospital
• Surgical suit profiled
• Members of the St. Cloud Dental Assistants Society visited the hospital
• 23 postulants to receive Benedictine Habit
• List of rules from old Saint Raphael's Hospital
• Pictures of new employees

Annual Report: 1965 Report To Community, St. Cloud Hospital

Annual Report

Statistics of conditions treated at St. Cloud Hospital in 1965

Beacon Light: January 1965, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Commentary by the hospital administrator on lowering hospital expenses
• Information on the newly elected officers to the personnel advisory committee
• Memorial for Dr. Richard F. Kline
• Article on the role of a Medical Doctor
• Profiles on various department heads
• Two graduates of the nursing school joined the Papal Volunteers of Latin America (PAVLA)
• Courtesy spotlight featuring Reinhard Gross
• Nursing students begin to have access to federal loans
• Meeting held to discuss a possible expansion of the hospital
• Stories concerning part time workers in the hospital
• Review of the annual recruitment effort
• Life expectancy of children throughout the years

Annual Report: 1965, St. Cloud Hospital

Annual Report

Statistics of conditions treated at St. Cloud Hospital in 1965.

Beacon Light: December 1964, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Two staff members receive cash award for suggestions
• Information on select hospital department heads
• Courtesy spotlight featuring Matha Bauer
• St. Cloud School of Nursing alumnae elections held
• Reflections from a talk on management therapeutics
• List of graduates from the School of X-Ray
• Minnesota Society of X-Ray Technologists hold meeting at the X-Ray department
• Profile on the newly acquired engraveograph
• Pictures of pediatric patients
• 1964 annual report distributed to public
• Features on multiple support staff members
• Photographs on the 1964 hospital open house

Beacon Light: November 1964, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Letter from the Hospital administrator on the quality of hospital care
• Hospital employees provided life insurance at no personal cost
• Information on various department heads
• Members of the support staff profiled
• Photographs of a newly opened convent at the St. Cloud Hospital
• Supervisors offered a free college course
• Update on the management improvement training program
• Article on the Hospital's backup generator
• Sister colleen attends dietetic conference
• List of new staff hires

Beacon Light: October 1964, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Employee suggestion program initiated
• Letter form Lyndon Johnson for international credit union
• Information on various heads of departments
• Multiple members of the support staff profiled
• Overview of the changes and improvements to the school of nursing
• Article on the X-Ray departments new mobile x-ray processor system
• Personnel participate in fire demonstrations

Beacon Light: September 1964, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Hospital completes a master plan for future development
• Background information on newly hired doctors
• The roles of various hospital support staff explained
• Seven Sisters join the staff of the St. Cloud hospital
• Different members of the night shift photographed
• Story concerning graduates of the school of nursing
• Article on the role of exit interviews

Beacon Light: June 1964, St. Cloud Hospital

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• Four sisters celebrate their Jubilees
• Memoriam for Dr. Henry Goehrs
• Information on the hospital's Head Nurses
• Profile on Lena Hagen (assistant director of nursing service)
• Overview of the furniture refinishing process
• Sisters Marion and Mary Dominic OSB, attend the American Nurses Association convention