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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Lily Raff / The Bulletin
March 23, 2008
Patients admitted to St. Charles Bend in the 1920s could confirm with one glance that they were in " as the name implied " a Catholic hospital.
The nurses were nuns. A cross hung on a wall in each room. A Catholic shrine made of lava rock was built into the hospital's brick....