Sr. Marie Damian Glatt, SCL, the past president of the SCL Health Services Corp., died at age 84 on Jan. 16. She is remembered for her leadership in health care, education and particular concern for the poor.
Sr. Glatt
In 1987, Sr. Glatt became vice president of planning for the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health Services Corp., the health care system now based in Broomfield, Colo., and known as SCL Health. In 1992, she was elected to the SCL Community Council, the leadership council of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, and she served as president of the SCL Health Services Corp. from 1992 to 2001. During her leadership, the system had nine hospitals in five states. It now operates nine hospitals in three states: Colorado, Kansas and Montana.
Donna Moranville, SCL Health's system privacy and security officer, worked with Sr. Glatt. "She was a very strong leader, but very supportive," Moranville said. Moranville recalled one occasion in which Sr. Glatt brought employees to a soup kitchen during a corporate retreat. She wanted employees to have lunch with homeless people there to learn more about their experiences, and also encouraged employees to contribute some time working at the four indigent care clinics the system operated at the time.
In 2001, Sr. Glatt became director of mission integration for the Oregon region of Providence Health System, now known as Providence Health & Services.
She earned two master's degrees, one in education administration and one in health administration. Early in her work, she served as a teacher, principal and education administrator.
Her funeral Mass was Jan. 21 at Ross Chapel of the Sisters of Charity Mother House in Leavenworth, Kan., with burial at Mount Olivet Cemetery on the motherhouse grounds.