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Catholic Health Initiatives ( CHI) was a national Catholic healthcare system, with headquarters in Englewood, Colorado. CHI was a nonprofit, faith-based health system formed, in 1996, through the consolidation of three Catholic health systems. It was one of the United States ' largest healthcare systems. [citation needed]
OSF HealthCare is a not-for-profit Catholic health care organization that operates a medical group, hospital system, and other health care facilities in Illinois and Michigan. Headquartered in Peoria, Illinois, OSF HealthCare is owned and operated by the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis.
Lists. Hospitals in Connecticut. Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center is a 617-bed acute care hospital located on Woodland Street in Hartford, Connecticut. The hospital was established in 1897 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chambéry. [2] With 617 beds and 65 bassinets, it is the largest Catholic hospital in New England.
Franciscan Health. Franciscan Health is the name under which the Franciscan Alliance, Inc., a Catholic healthcare system, operates. It operates eleven hospitals serving Indiana and one hospital in Illinois and employs over 18,000 full- and part-time employees. Franciscan Alliance is under the sponsorship of the Sisters of St. Francis of ...
The Catholic Church is the largest private provider of health care in the United States of America. [40] During the 1990s, the church provided about one in six hospital beds in America, at around 566 hospitals, many established by nuns. [39] The church has carried a disproportionate number of poor and uninsured patients at its facilities and ...
St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center. / 40.8042; -73.6700. St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center is a 449-bed non-profit [1] teaching hospital located in the Incorporated Village of Flower Hill in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. [2] It is New York State's only specialty-designated cardiac center.
Ascension Via Christi Health. Ascension Via Christi Health is a Catholic -sponsored health care system fully owned [1] by Ascension Health. It is the largest provider of health care services in Kansas and employs more than 6,000 in its hospitals, physician offices and health services [2] in Kansas and northeast Oklahoma.
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone ( c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, [b] was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. He was inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty as a beggar [7] and itinerant preacher.