St. Camillus Health Center, a
skilled nursing facility
A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of elderly or disabled people. Nursing homes may also be referred to as skilled nursing facility (SNF) or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to in ...
located in
Whitinsville, Massachusetts
Whitinsville is an unincorporated village within the town of Northbridge in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Whitinsville is a census-designated place (CDP) and its population was 6,750 at the 2020 census. Whitinsville is pronoun ...
, United States, was formerly known as ''St. Camillus Hospital for Incurable Diseases''.
Services provided
Today St. Camillus Health Center provides occupational, physical and speech rehabilitation; skilled nursing care and short term care as well as
long term care
Long-term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. Long-term care is focused on individualized and ...
.
History
St. Camillus Hospital was built in the 1960s by the Brothers of the
Order of St. Camillus, the "Servants of the Sick," to serve those suffering from
multiple sclerosis
Multiple (cerebral) sclerosis (MS), also known as encephalomyelitis disseminata or disseminated sclerosis, is the most common demyelinating disease, in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged. This d ...
and other incurable diseases. In the late 1980s the Order converted the hospital into a nursing home and renamed it "St. Camillus Health Center." In 2002 it was sold to a local non-profit group which now operates it.
Location
St. Camillus is located at 447 Hill Street on what was known as the E. Kent Swift estate. The hospital was built on the front part of the property and the 22-room brick Georgian mansion located further back on the property was used by the brothers as a monastery.
History of the mansion and estate
The mansion was built in 1911 by George Marston Whitin as a wedding gift for his daughter, Katherine Leland Whitin and her husband, Elijah Kent Swift. George Marston Whitin married his cousin, Catherine Whitin Lasell, the granddaughter of John Crane Whitin, the founder of the Whitin Machine Works, the village's largest employer, and son of the founder of Whitinsville. George Marston Whitin, or Marston Whitin as he was called, became head of the machine works (or "The Shop, as it was called) and was succeeded by his son-in-law, E. Kent Swift.
Present use of the mansion
The mansion is now called the ''Father Turci Manor'', in honor of Vitaliano Turci,
administrator of St. Camillus from 1966 to 1983. In 1999, it was restored to its former glory.
Turci Manor — St. Camillus Health Center
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References
External links
St. Camillus Health Center website
Order of St. Camillus website
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Houses completed in 1911
Buildings and structures in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Nursing homes in the United States
Healthcare in Massachusetts