Today. after serving over 300.000 patients and providing close to 3.500.000 treatments for outpatients and accident patients. Carney is a 318bed general hospital. housed in a complex of new buildings in Dorchester. Mass. The hospitals founder. Andrew Carney. came to America from Ireland in 1794 at the age of 22 and prospered as a tailor and merchant. Following the Irish famines of the early 19th century when a great many impoverished Catholic immigrants arrived in Boston. creating a need for good medical care. Carney decided to build a Catholic hospital. To help establish the hospital he sought the assistance of Sister Ann Alexis of the Daughters of Charity of St.
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