September marks at least two anniversaries in Catholic health care, both in California. For a look at "then" and "now," read this story about St. John's Regional Medical Center, founded 100 years ago in Oxnard by the Sisters of Mercy, or this one, about the arrival of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael in Stockton 135 years ago.
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