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  2. Catholic Church and health care - Wikipedia

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    Marianne Cope and other Sisters of St Francis with the daughters of leper patients, at the Kakaʻako Branch Hospital, Hawaii, 1886. The Catholic Church established many of the world's modern hospitals. The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of health care services in the world. [1]

  3. History of hospitals - Wikipedia

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    The first Spanish hospital, founded by the Catholic Visigoth bishop Masona in 580 CE at Mérida, was a xenodochium designed as an inn for travellers (mostly pilgrims to the shrine of Eulalia of Mérida) as well as a hospital for citizens and local farmers. The hospital's endowment consisted of farms to feed its patients and guests.

  4. Carney Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Carney (1794–1864), founder of the Carney Hospital [4] Relief of the Miraculous Medal on the facade of Carney Hospital (2006). Carney Hospital was established in 1863 in South Boston by Andrew Carney with a $75,000 donation and with Sister Ann Alexis Shorb, Carney's choice for its first administrator and a member of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.

  5. Mercy Hospital and Medical Center - Wikipedia

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    Mercy Hospital and Medical Center now called Insight Hospital and Medical Center Chicago is a 414-bed general medical and surgical Catholic teaching hospital in Chicago, Illinois. [1] Established in 1852, the hospital was the first chartered hospital in Chicago.

  6. Catholic Health Initiatives - Wikipedia

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    In 2018, Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives received a merger approval from the Catholic Church, through the Vatican.Merged on February 1, 2019, as CommonSpirit Health, the new company formed as the largest Catholic health system, [12] and the second-largest nonprofit hospital chain, in the United States.

  7. Catholic hospitals were founded to help the poor. Now they ...

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    The actions of Catholic health systems can have an outsize impact because of their reach, fueled by mergers in recent years: Four of the 10 largest U.S. hospital chains by number of beds are ...

  8. Dignity Health - Wikipedia

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    Dignity Health was the fifth-largest hospital system in the nation and the largest not-for-profit hospital provider in California. [1] Formerly a Catholic institution, the organization went independent in 2012 and adopted its new name. In February 2019, Dignity Health merged with Catholic Health Initiatives, becoming CommonSpirit Health. [2]

  9. CommonSpirit Health - Wikipedia

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    CommonSpirit Health is a health system based in the United States, the country's largest Catholic hospital chain and its second-largest nonprofit hospital chain (as of 2019). [2] [3] It operates more than 700 care sites and 142 hospitals in 21 states. [4] [5]