Centro Medico Maternidad de Maria

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  Sister Inspiration: Margaret Mary Birchmeier, OP

  November 30, 2018

  It was 1965, when Sister Margaret Mary and Sister Innocence Andres, both nurses and midwives, arrived in Chimbote, Peru to initiate a child and maternal care program. When they arrived, they found the Maternity Hospital unfinished — one wall and a concrete slab for a floor — so they spent the first year learning about […]

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  Sister Inspiration: Margaret Mary Birchmeier, OP & Lillian Bockheim, OP

  February 23, 2018

  This precious little girl, Megan, was born in Maternidad de Maria in Chimbote, Peru this week. She is the 98,000th baby delivered in the maternity hospital the Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids helped start more than 50 years ago. Her birth fell during an auspicious week as the community celebrated and blessed a new building. […]