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Sister Margaret Therese Hayes, R.S.C.J.

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Sister Margaret Therese Hayes, R.S.C.J., a psychiatrist who served on the staff of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Harrison and taught at New York Medical College in Valhalla, died Nov. 8 at her religious order’s residence in Fairfield, Conn., CNY has learned. She was 84.

She completed a residency in psychiatry at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan in 1971, received board certification and was a full-time staff psychiatrist and associate attending in psychiatry at St. Vincent’s in Harrison from 1971 to 1992. She also was an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College and an associate attending psychiatrist at Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan.

She was a psychiatric consultant to the Archdiocese of New York, the Diocese of Brooklyn and Mary Manning Walsh Home in Manhattan.

She was a consultant to the archdiocese’s Metropolitan Tribunal and was a counselor at Manhattan College in Purchase.

In 1980 she was made a lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Born in Brooklyn, she earned a medical degree at New York University School of Medicine. She resigned a residency in pediatrics to enter the Religious of the Sacred Heart in Albany in 1951 and professed final vows in 1959.

A Funeral Mass was celebrated Nov. 20 at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, Conn. Burial was at the cemetery of Kenwood Convent of the Sacred Heart in Albany.

Sister Margaret Therese Hayes, R.S.C.J.