A nun is seen with delegates during a breakout session Sept. 21, 2018, at the Fifth National Encuentro in Grapevine, Texas. Chicago-based Catholic Extension plans to help 1,000 women religious with grants in memory of a group of sisters who died in late December 2020 from complications of COVID-19 in Elm Grove, Wis. (CNS/Tyler Orsburn)
Chicago-based Catholic Extension plans to help 1,000 women religious with grants in memory of a group of sisters who died in late December of COVID-19 in Elm Grove, Wisconsin.
The grants, $1,000 per sister, have been established in the name of a group of School Sisters of Notre Dame, most of whom had been teachers and who died from complications of COVID-19 as the virus spread in the facility that cared for them.
Catholic nonprofit will honor women religious who died of COVID-19
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Catholic Nonprofit Will Honor Women Religious Who Died of COVID-19
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No timeline for vaccine distribution at facility where 9 nuns died
Waukesha County Health Department says it is not a licensed skilled nursing facility Share Updated: 10:30 PM CST Jan 12, 2021
Waukesha County Health Department says it is not a licensed skilled nursing facility Share Updated: 10:30 PM CST Jan 12, 2021
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Show Transcript WE NOW HAVE THE NAMES AND PHOTOS OF NUNS WHO DIED FROM NINE CORONAVIRUS AT THE SCHOOL SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME IN ELM GROVE. BUT LOCAL OFFICIALS SAY WE ARE NO CLOSER TO AN ANSWER AS TO WHEN THE FACILITY WILL BE VACCINATED 87 NUNS LIVE INSIDE THE MAJORITY OF THEM IN THEIR 80’S AND 90’S. IN A STATEMENT TUESDAY, THE WAUKESHA COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT SAID THE FACILITY WOULD NOT BE AMONG THE FIRST TO GET THE VACCINE BECAUSE THE SCHOOL SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME IS NOT A LICENSED SKILLED NURSING FACILITY WITH THE DIVISION OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AT THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES. THAT RESPONSE UN
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Eight Roman Catholic nuns, who were in their 80s and 90s and had over half a millennium of combined service to the community, died from COVID-19 despite being “extra careful” at a Wisconsin retirement home in a week, according to reports.
The Sisters, who were from Notre Dame of Elm Grove, about eight miles west of Milwaukee, died from complications caused by the coronavirus between Dec. 9 and Dec. 16, according to TMJ4.
“The Sisters, we’re being extra careful in terms of getting their meals in rooms and they can’t congregate together,” Sister Debra Sciano, provincial leader of the School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province, was quoted as saying. “More testing, being tested twice a week for the virus.”