Sr. Alice M. Talone Elected President Of Sisters Of Bon Secours, USA

At the Sisters of Bon Secours Provincial Chapter meetings in Marriottsville, Maryland, in September, Sr. Alice M. Talone was elected president of the United States Province. Also elected to the Province’s Leadership Team were Sr. Rose Marie Jasinski, a senior vice president of Sponsorship for Bon Secours Health System, who was elected vice president; Sr. Elaine Davia, nurse practitioner in Florida; Sr. Anna Mae Crane, community organizer for the Jeremiah Project in Portsmouth, Virginia, and Sr. Mary Shimo, coordinator of Volunteers/Auxiliary for Bon Secours Hospital in Baltimore.

Sr. Alice was born in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours in 1961. She received her R.N. degree from the Bon Secours School of Nursing and her BSN from the University of Pennsylvania. She also earned a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Ministry from Trinity College in Washington, D.C.

She has held many positions in the Bon Secours Baltimore Health System including staff nurse, patient advocate, chaplain, and vice president of Mission. She served as pastoral associate at St. Veronica’s Church and St. Bernadine’s Church, both in Baltimore. Sr. Alice was also a staff nurse at St. Edmond’s Home for Crippled Children in Rosemont, Pennsylvania.

In 1991, Sr. Alice initiated the Ministry of Health Care Parish Liaison in Baltimore. This ministry, which is supported by the Sisters of Bon Secours in collaboration with Bon Secours Baltimore Health System, serves the sick, suffering, poor and dying in their homes and parishes by facilitating and monitoring the delivery of physical and spiritual care and emotional support as well as health care counseling and referral, health education and screening services for parishes in West Baltimore.

Describing her ministry as a Health Care Parish Liaison, Sr. Alice says, “My gifts lie in being in the community. As a parish nurse serving poor, urban churches I find that I live out being good help to those in need. God directs me all the way, and I truly believe through my service and various encounters that all is providence and that God touches me through the people with whom I minister.”

Sr. Alice has served the Sisters of Bon Secours by being on its Leadership Team for the past 8 years as well as serving as the Province’s Vocation Director. She has held positions on many Bon Secours local system boards to include serving as sister president of Bon Secours Maria Manor and a director of Bon Secours Michigan Health System. She is currently president of Bon Secours Baltimore Health System and a member of Bon Secours Health System Board of Directors.

Sr. Alice has been involved with the Archdiocese of Baltimore as a member of the Archdiocese Pastoral Associates Association and the Diocesan/Religious Gifts Committee to restore the Basilica in Baltimore. She also serves on the Catholic Health Association’s Sponsor Committee.

As Sr. Alice takes the helm of the Sisters of Bon Secours, USA, she reflects on her new ministry by quoting the scripture of St. Paul, “ I can do all things in God who strengthens me.” Phil. 4:13