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Saint Thomas Hospital was founded by the Daughters of Charity,
a Catholic community of religious women, founded in Paris, France,
in 1633 by Saint Vincent de Paul and Saint Louise de Marillac.
Together, they organized and trained young peasant women to take
food and other necessities to the homes of the less fortunate and
to care for the hospitalized. These women were the first to nurse
the poor in their own homes, to care for the mentally ill and to
visit patients after their discharge from a hospital stay.
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