About Us

Rosary Hill Home, a licensed Roman Catholic Health Care Center, owned and operated by the Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer (Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne), provides loving, palliative care to those suffering from incurable cancer according to the teachings of the Catholic Church and the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Services, 6th ed. 2018 (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) and the HHS Conscience Rights.

Since its opening in 1901, Rosary Hill Home’s Administration, Sisters and Staff have been committed to protecting human dignity, freedom and human flourishing at the end of life and strive to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual and recreational needs of patients suffering from incurable cancer.

The Home is free to all who meet the Admission requirements; there is no discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, HIV status or handicap.  In fidelity to their rule of life, the Sisters depend solely upon the “providence of God and the hourly mercy of the charitable public;” no payment is accepted from patients, their families, private insurance, or from the government.

Mother Mary Alphonsa, O.P. (Rose Hawthorne)

A Brief History

Rosary Hill Home was founded in June 1, 1901, by Mother Mary Alponsa Lathrop (Rose Hawthorne, daughter of American novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne). Mother Alphonsa’s ministry to cancer victims began in 1896, when she welcomed patients into her own apartment on the Lower East Side of New York City. As other women joined her, the work grew and continues to this day in the hills of Westchester County.


Transparency in Coverage Compliance (related to staff benefits)

Aetna Signature Admin – Machine Readable Files (MRFs)

This link leads to the machine-readable files which are made available in response to the Federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and include negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researches, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.