EAU CLAIRE – The HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital Foundation recently received a generous gift from the estate of Annabel Bauer to establish a surgical nursing education endowment. The endowment, totaling $100,000, will help to fund academic programs, seminars and continuing education for surgical nurses working at Sacred Heart Hospital.
Bauer was a Mondovi native who had a fruitful career in nursing, military service and academia. She served as dean of Health Occupations at Chippewa Valley Technical College, she retired as a full colonel with the U.S. Army, and, after retiring, Bauer served the World Bank to teach and work in Africa.
The endowment will be awarded annually. This year’s endowment recipient will be announced at the Sacred Heart Foundation Caritas Guild dinner in May.
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About HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital
HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital is an affiliate of the Hospital Sisters Health System. Since 1889 it has been meeting patient needs in western Wisconsin with the latest medical innovations and technology, together with a Franciscan whole-person healing tradition. For more information about HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital, visit www.sacredhearteauclaire.org.
About Hospital Sisters Health System
Hospital Sisters Health System’s (HSHS) mission is to reveal and embody Christ’s healing love for all people through our high quality, Franciscan health care ministry. HSHS provides state-of-the-art health care to our patients and is dedicated to serving all people, especially the most vulnerable, at each of our 13 Local Systems and physician practices in Illinois (Belleville, Breese, Decatur, Effingham, Highland, Litchfield, and Springfield) and Wisconsin (Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Oconto Falls, Sheboygan, and two in Green Bay). HSHS is sponsored by Hospital Sisters Ministries, and Hospital Sisters of St. Francis is the founding institute. For more information about HSHS, visit www.hshs.org. For more information about Hospital Sisters of St. Francis, visit www.hospitalsisters.org.