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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 ] It has around 18,000 clinics, 16,000 homes for the elderly and those with special needs, and 5,500 hospitals, with 65 percent of them located in developing countries. [ 2 ]
The largest hospital networks headquartered in the United States are included in the table below. The name, headquarters location, number of hospitals, funding type and founding year are given for each network. [38] There were 6,146 hospitals in the United States in 2020, of which 2,240 were managed by the largest 45 hospital networks. [39] [40]
The first percentage, 4th column, is the percentage of population that is Catholic in a region (number in the region x 100 / total population of the region). The last column shows the national Catholic percentage compared to the total Catholic population of the world (number in the region x 100 / total RC population of the world).
The Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA), formerly the Catholic Hospital Association of the United States and Canada, is a Catholic professional association comprising more than 600 hospitals and 1,400 long-term care and other health facilities in the United States. It is the largest group of non-profit health care providers ...
In 2010 it settled in as part of Trinity Health, the nation’s fourth-largest hospital system by number of beds, according to federal data. Trinity Health operates 101 hospitals, plus other care ...
Ascension is a large private Catholic healthcare system in the United States. Ascension had 142,000 employees, 142 hospitals, and 40 senior living facilities operating in 19 states and the District of Columbia as of the end of 2021. [1] Ascension is one of the largest nonprofit and one of the largest Catholic health systems in the United States.
In the U.S., the number of hospitals reached 4400 in 1910, when they provided 420,000 beds. [121] These were operated by city, state and federal agencies, by churches, by stand-alone non-profits, and by for-profit enterprises. All the major denominations built hospitals; the 541 Catholic ones (in 1915) were staffed primarily by unpaid nuns.
Catholic hospitals in Oceania (1 C, 13 P) S. Catholic hospitals in South America (3 P) This page was last edited on 20 April 2023, at 14:16 (UTC). Text is ...