FAMILY TIES
The CALL TO SERVICE is a
Family Affair at Saint Francis Health System
When you work closely with people for years, even decades, they can become more than coworkers, colleagues or even friends; they become family. Nowhere is that more true than Saint Francis Health System, where the team of more than 10,500 strong—the largest employee base in Tulsa—is united in a shared mission: “To extend the presence and healing ministry of Christ in all we do.”
That timeless, immutable mantra was first put into place by Saint Francis’ founders, Natalie O. and William K. Warren Sr., and has continued to this day. While the Warrens are the first family of Saint Francis, there are other employees who don’t just share the same mission, but also share a family bond. Proudly, these Saint Francis employees prove that the call to serve in Christ’s name is a family affair, one that lasts through the generations. Here are just a few stories.
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DETOUR LEADS TO THREE GENERATIONS OF SERVICE Saint Francis Health System opened its doors October 1, 1960, but Frank Hamilton had been hard at work in the warehouse since September 3. “There was a lot to do in preparing for the hospital’s big opening day,” says Hamilton. Those first four weeks turned into a career that lasted more than half a century, and came to include three generations of Hamilton’s own family. Nobody would have been more surprised than the patriarch himself. “It was ‘easy come, easy go’ in those days,” says Hamilton, who stopped in Tulsa on his way to California to visit his uncle. Hamilton ended up staying and chose Green Country over the Golden State, and
