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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		How Health Care in Rhinelander Came to Be
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:21
	Publish Date:		2021-01-06 06:25:25
	Description:		In the nineteenth century, government rarely got involved in issues of health care. In the absence of government aid, the Catholic Church often stepped in to fill the gap. There were many people involved in bringing quality hospital care to the Northwoods, but for Rhinelander the life of one individual member of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother serves to tell the story. Rhinelander was founded as a lumbering town. Work in the logging camps was dangerous and injuries were frequent. During the earliest years of Rhinelander’s existence, the closest hospital was in Chippewa Falls. Itinerate doctors would visit the lumber camps, but they lacked the support needed to do anything more than provide superficial treatment of wounds. In 1891, a house on the corner of King and Pelham streets was converted into the Rhinelander Hospital. The Catholic Church was then and still is the largest non-government provider of health care in the world. Father Nicholas Joch of St. Mary’s Church wanted to
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