Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) formally originated in 1996, the faithful servants have been practicing the love of Christ by caring for those in need for centuries. It stands on the shoulders of those who have gone before; they left a strong legacy for it to continue and nurture. St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System, a six-hospital system based in Houston, TX, joined CHI as St. Luke’s Health System. The organization includes outpatient clinics throughout the Houston metro area, a medical staff of 2,800 and affiliations with Baylor College of Medicine, the 370-physician Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Texas Heart Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Catholic Health Initiatives, a nonprofit, faith-based health system formed in 1996 through the consolidation of four Catholic health systems, expresses its mission each day by creating and nurturing healthy communities in the hundreds of sites across the nation where it provides care. One of the nation’s largest health systems, Englewood, Colo.-based CHI operates in 19 states and comprises 105 hospitals, including four academic health centers and major teaching hospitals and 30 critical-access facilities; community health-services organizations; accredited nursing colleges; home-health agencies; and other facilities that span the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care. In fiscal year 2014, CHI provided $910 million in charity care and community benefit -- a nearly 20% increase over the previous year -- for programs and services for the poor, free clinics, education and research. Charity care and community benefit totaled more than $1.7 billion with the inclusion of the unpaid costs of Medicare. The health system, which generated revenues of almost $13.9 billion in fiscal year 2014, has total assets of $21.8 billion. Catholic Health Initiatives’ mission & yision and core values define its organization and serve as touchstones for its employees. Its strategic plan, national leadership and financial information are essential to keeping its health ministry vibrant. Its sponsorship model, sacred stories and history help establish the character and culture of its organization.
Catholic Health Initiatives’ Clinical Engineering is one of the largest in-house biomedical equipment groups in the health care environment. Its program was created in April 1999 to deliver value and savings across our nationwide health care system. It is pleased to be able to offer its expertise to other health providers. Its clinical Engineering program employs more than 400 staff, manages a $169 million budget, operates in more than 90 hospitals and serves many imaging and surgery centers as well.
Sponsors of Catholic health ministries realized that the evolving health care environment would require a radical change in organizational structures. In early 1995, a group of Catholic health care leaders began to explore ways to strengthen the health ministry for the future. They envisioned a national Catholic health ministry, sponsored and governed by an equal religious-lay partnership, which would live out its mission by transforming health care delivery and creating new ministries to promote healthy communities.
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