Sr. Mary Shimo speaks of the wonderful opportunities she has had as a Sister of Bon Secours, both in terms of the education she has gotten and the experiences she has had.
“No one could have anticipated all the things I have done from nursing to being a chaplain to running a hospital gift shop for six years. It has been a journey of surprises with so many places and directions I never would have thought to go,” says Sr. Mary.
For the past 12 years, she has coordinated the volunteers-student programs at Bon Secours Baltimore Health System. This involves overseeing the volunteer program and the affiliations with area schools as part of the hospital’s student clinical internship program. “One of the things I really like about working in a hospital is that I still have the opportunity to use my chaplaincy skills in many ways,” she says.
Sr. Mary Shimo entered the Congregation of Bon Secours in 1962 … continue reading…
Sr. Fran Gorsuch meets God in the faces of those she helps. “My spirituality is at the moment of encounter— to bee there, to hear their nee ds. As sisters, we’re called to universal love. Some people may not appear lovable, but you get to know them. We’re all so much more alike than wee are different,” she says. Sr. Fran sees our similarities in an unlikely place: among immigrants from Haiti, Latin America, Russia, India, Pakistan, and the Middle East, now living in Rockland County, outside of New York City. As director of Community Initiatives with Bon Secours Charity Health System’s Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, NY, Sr. Fran advocates for disadvantaged people in communities that have some of the fastest growing immigrant populations. She helps people who need medical care by connecting them with appropriate caregivers, including Good Samaritan. Sr. Fran is part of the Rockland County Immigration Coalition, an organization that helps defend and protect their rights and human dignity of all who seek to … 
