Within two years of its founding as a 12-bed hospital, Saint Raphael's opens a School of Nursing, forms its auxiliary and grows to 135 beds.
Patient care becomes more sophisticated.
Saint Raphael's gets its first X-ray machine, opens its first pharmacy and acquires its first motorized ambulance. Saint Raphael's grows physically and clinically. It adds the Saint Rita's wing, opens a modern laboratory and welcomes its first full-time anesthesiologist. Sister Louise Anthony Geronemo arrives in 1935 as a novice Sister of Charity to train at the School of Nursing. She goes on to serve Saint Raphael's in a variety of roles over the next 62 years, including 22 years as hospital administrator.