Carol Ann Baltosiewich, S.F.C.C., (November 29, 1943 – September 18, 2024) was an American Religious Sister and nurse who was assigned by her superiors to care for young AIDS patients.
In this experience she found a new direction for her life, becoming an activist on behalf of AIDS sufferers and the wider gay community.
[2] In the 1980s, Baltosiewich was assigned by her superiors to care for a young gay man dying of AIDS in rural Illinois.
[1] They also worked at Saint Clare's Hospital in nearby Hell's Kitchen, an institution that served a large homeless and indigent population.
[4][3] As part of her ministry, Baltosiewich held the hands of AIDS patients while they died, sometimes when their own families were too afraid to be in the same room as them.