Ryah Manker: Essay Winner 4th - 6th grades

Winner: Ryah Manker

Know Her Story Art & Essay Contest
Category: Essay (4th - 6th grades)

Honoring: Sister Margaret Raphael McCarthy

Sister Margaret Raphael McCarthy was integral to Avera Health's expansion in the mid 20th Century. During her tenure as mother superior – heading a four hospital-wide business – she negotiated multiple loans that helped expand care through the Presentation hospitals. The separate hospitals centralized to meet requirements for the program, eventually becoming the Avera Health system, as it's known today.

I choose Sister Margaret Raphael McCarthy because she helped make the hospital Avera. Read my essay.