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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.
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]
St. Mary's Medical Center (SMMC) is the oldest continuously operating hospital and the first Catholic hospital in San Francisco. St. Mary's Hospital was opened on July 27, 1857 by the Sisters of Mercy. 1858 St. Joseph Community Hospital: Vancouver, Washington: Merged PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, 2010 [32] 1858 Long Island College Hospital
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.
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 ...
Wall, Barbara Mann. " 'We Might as Well Burn It': Catholic Sister-Nurses and Hospital Control, 1865-1930." US Catholic Historian 20.1 (2002): 21-39. Wall, Barbara Mann. Into Africa: A Transnational History of Catholic Medical Missions and Social Change (Rutgers UP, 2015) online review. Ward, Frances. On Duty: Power, Politics, and the History of ...
Catholic hospital networks in the United States (3 C, 50 P) Pages in category "Catholic hospitals in the United States" The following 107 pages are in this category, out of 107 total.
After St. Joseph merged with Providence Health & Services in 2016, creating the nation’s fourth-largest Catholic hospital chain, the shadow of Catholic healthcare restrictions on Hoag grew ...