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The surviving charity clinic, whole at boundary size: the clinic is St. Joseph's South Bend legacy in the city its hospital left (item 9), and its record names its founder first: Sister Maura Brannick, C.S.C., a Sister of the Holy Cross and a nurse whose twenty-six years of nursing had run through Holy Cross hospitals in Illinois, Indiana and Idaho, and who, after eight years in pastoral care at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in South Bend, concluded that care for the west side's poor had to come to the west side. St. Joseph Regional sponsored the first West Washington Street Health Center in October 1986 — a converted carriage house, in the Congressional Record's telling a 400-square-foot garage — and by its third month twelve physicians were volunteering in it. The moves print with their sources' dates unreconciled: the clinic relocated to Chapin Street as the South Chapin Street Health Center in February 1988 on Sister Maura's congregation obituary record, while the National Catholic Reporter's account dates the renovated Chapin Street building's completion to 1989; both print, and the difference is a year the sources, not this article, must settle. In December 1998 the present 10,000-square-foot building at Chapin Street and Western Avenue was dedicated, and on October 13, 2006 the center was renamed for its founder. Its mission has not changed across the moves: primary and dental care for St. Joseph County residents who cannot qualify for Medicare or Medicaid and cannot afford private insurance — eligibility at or below 200 percent of the poverty level, uninsured — staffed substantially by volunteers; by 2008 the Congressional Record credited it with more than 70,000 patients served and 60,000 volunteer hours given. And it stayed: when St. Joseph's hospital itself left South Bend in the move the next article tells, the Chapin Street clinic remained on the near west side under the system's sponsorship, photographed in service in April 2026 and listed in the county's present directories — the departed hospital's surviving charity arm, and the boundary fact nearest to Osceola's own pattern, a small fixed point of care outlasting the institution that founded it.
Sources: Today's Catholic / Kaniewski Funeral Homes, obituary of Sister Maura Brannick, C.S.C. (1923–2019) — the nursing course, the October 1986 West Washington Street sponsorship, the February 1988 Chapin relocation, the December 1998 dedication, the October 2006 renaming. National Catholic Reporter (2015), via the Free Library record — the 1986 founding, the 400-square-foot garage, the 1989 Chapin completion date printed against 1988 above, the 10,000-square-foot building of 1998. Congressional Record, Extensions of Remarks (April 3, 2008) — the founding, the carriage house, 70,000 patients, 60,000 volunteer hours. The center's published record, read November 2026 — eligibility (county residence, at or below 200 percent of poverty, no Medicare, Medicaid or insurance), the Chapin Street and Western Avenue seat, in service 2026.