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In Hunting Park, nuns provide free hospice care to cancer patients

It is called Sacred Heart Home, and its work is just that: sacred. For 84 years, a group of nuns has been caring for poor people dying from cancer in their gleaming home on the edge of Hunting Park. They do it free of charge.

The hand-carved Nativity scene in the lobby was donated years ago from an "old local department store," after it closed, but the sisters don''t remember which one. TOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
The hand-carved Nativity scene in the lobby was donated years ago from an "old local department store," after it closed, but the sisters don''t remember which one. TOM GRALISH / Staff PhotographerRead more
    by By Kristen A. Graham, Inquirer Staff Writer
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