SCHENECTADY — Anne Hotaling never wanted to be anything in life but a nurse.
And so after getting her nursing degree in 1979, the 21-year-old got a job at St. Clare’s Hospital on McClellen Street in Schenectady, where her mom was an emergency room nurse.
It was exciting. And as a Roman Catholic, Hotaling loved the hospital’s mission as Schenectady’s only Catholic hospital. St. Clare’s had been founded by the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor on land donated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, which also served as a religious sponsor of the hospital, with the bishop serving as both a voting member and honorary chairman of the board…