John L. Smith Essay:

St. Rose Dominican Hospitals forever in bloom in the desert

John L. Smith is an accomplished author and longtime columnist whose family's Nevada roots go back to 1881. He was born at St. Rose de Lima Hospital.

 

 

"Only Hollywood’s dizziest dreamers could have conjured up the storyline of how seven Adrian Dominican Sisters dressed in angelic white traveled in the heat of the summer by a Union Pacific train from southern Michigan to notorious post-war Las Vegas; how they bought the struggling Basic Magnesium Hospital standing outside the gates of a fading magnesium plant for $1; and how they overcame withering financial challenges to carve out a legacy of compassion, care, and ethics. The faith-based mission of St. Rose has spread far and continues to reverberate after seventy-five years. In saving the hospital, the seven Adrian Dominican Sisters helped save a whole town. 

Sounds like the plot of a Frank Capra movie, doesn’t it? The best part is, it’s all true."

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