{"id":253555,"date":"2025-10-26T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/253555\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:48:10","slug":"former-patients-providers-celebrate-st-mary-hospital-memorial-unveiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/253555\/","title":{"rendered":"Former patients, providers celebrate St. Mary Hospital memorial unveiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">QUINCY (WGEM) &#8211; On October 25, 1867, Saint Mary Hospital opened its doors to serve Quincy. Exactly 158 years later, former patients and providers are still talking about its storied legacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">A new Adams County Bicentennial memorial commemorating the hospital was unveiled near the corner of 16th Street and Vermont Street Saturday, Oct. 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">One former St. Mary administrator says the memorial is a testament to more than just the institution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">\u201cTo have a place where, not just the&#8230; institution of St. Mary Hospital is memorialized, but the many, many people that gave their entire lives to caring for people in this institution, is what\u2019s critical to&#8230; this memorial,\u201d said former St. Mary CEO and President Bill Metzinger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The hospital was first established by the three Franciscan Sisters of the Poor to provide healthcare to the sick and poor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Saint Mary later merged with Blessing Hospital in 1993.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WGEM. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUINCY (WGEM) &#8211; On October 25, 1867, Saint Mary Hospital opened its doors to serve Quincy. Exactly 158&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-253555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}