Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) is a national nonprofit health system with headquarters in Englewood, Colorado. CHI is a nonprofit, faith-based health system formed in 1996 through the consolidation of four Catholic health systems. It is one of the nation's largest healthcare systems.
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History
CHI began operation July 1, 1996.
The founding systems were the following:
- Catholic Health Corporation of Omaha, NE
- Franciscan Health System of Aston, PA
- Sisters of Charity Health Care Systems of Cincinnati, OH
Expansion:
- September 1997, The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Health System, Nazareth, KY, consolidated with Catholic Health Initiatives, adding nine acute care facilities in three states to the system.
- March 1998, The Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Hankinson, North Dakota, transfer sponsorship of a hospital and eight clinics to CHI.
- September 2010, Consolidated Health Services, a home care service provider with 30 locations in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, joins CHI as the basis of a national home care business line. Home health is later re-branded as CHI Health at Home.
- May 2013, St. Luke's Episcopal Health System, a six-hospital system based in Houston, Texas, joins CHI as St. Luke's Health System. The organization includes outpatient clinics throughout the Houston metro area and affiliations with Baylor College of Medicine, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Texas Heart Institute, Texas Children's Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center.
- June 2014, CHI St. Luke's Health Memorial (formerly Memorial Health System), Lufkin, Texas, joins CHI.
- October 2014, CHI St. Alexius Health, Bismarck, North Dakota, becomes a direct affiliate of CHI, adding St. Alexius Medical Center and two critical access hospitals to the system.
- November 2014, Sylvania Franciscan Health becomes part of CHI, adding St. Joseph Health System in the Brazos Valley region of Texas; Franciscan Living Communities in Kentucky and Ohio; and three hospitals in eastern Ohio to the system
- January 2016, Brazosport Regional Health System, Lake Jackson, Texas, joins CHI St. Luke's Health, Houston.
- December 2018, Dignity Health and CHI announce a definitive agreement to merge.
Catholic Health Initiatives has expanded since 2011, entering new states and expanding in existing ones. CHI also acquired the health insurer QualChoice, but was unsuccessful in its ownership; QualChoice is currently for sale.
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Scope and size
Colorado-based CHI is one of the nation's largest health systems, operating in 18 states and comprising 104 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 (FY 2014), has total assets of $21.8 billion.
Controversy
In January 2013, the hospital provoked controversy by arguing in a defense to a wrongful death lawsuit that unborn fetuses should not be classed as persons, contradicting official Catholic doctrine. The hospital association does not have any active priests on its board and the president of the board, Fr. Thomas Kopfensteiner, has argued positions tolerant of abortion against Catholic teaching in the past.
Divisions
- Arkansas Hospitals (CHI St. Vincent)
- CHI St. Vincent Infirmary, Little Rock, Arkansas
- CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs, Hot Springs, Arkansas
- CHI St. Vincent Morrilton, Morrilton, Arkansas
- CHI St. Vincent North, Sherwood, Arkansas
- Centura Health, Englewood, Colorado (partnership with Adventist Health System)
- Mercy Health Network, Des Moines, Iowa (partnership with Trinity Health)
- KentuckyOne Health, Louisville, Kentucky
- Minnesota Hospitals
- CHI LakeWood Health, Baudette, Minnesota
- CHI St. Francis Health, Breckenridge, Minnesota
- CHI St. Joseph's Health, Park Rapids, Minnesota
- CHI St. Gabriel's Health, Little Falls, Minnesota
- Nebraska & Iowa Hospitals (CHI Health)
- CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center Bergan Mercy, Omaha, Nebraska
- CHI Health Good Samaritan, Kearney, Nebraska
- CHI Health Immanuel Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
- CHI Health Lakeside, Omaha, Nebraska
- CHI Health Mercy, Corning, Iowa
- CHI Health Mercy, Council Bluffs, Iowa
- CHI Health Midlands, Papillion, Nebraska
- CHI Health, Missouri Valley, Iowa
- CHI Health Nebraska Heart, Lincoln, Nebraska
- CHI Health Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center, Lincoln, Nebraska
- CHI Health Saint Francis Medical Center, Grand Island, Nebraska
- CHI Health Saint Mary's, Nebraska City, Nebraska
- Saint Clare's Health System, Denville, New Jersey
- North Dakota
- CHI Lisbon Health
- CHI Mercy Health
- CHI Oakes Hospital
- CHI St. Alexius Health
- Premier Health Partners, Dayton, Ohio (partnership)
- TriHealth, Cincinnati, Ohio (partnership with Bethesda Inc.)
- Oregon hospitals
- CHI Mercy Health
- CHI St. Anthony Hospital
- CHI St. Joseph Children's Health (Pennsylvania)
- CHI Memorial, Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Texas hospitals
- CHI St. Joseph Health
- CHI St. Luke's Health
- Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, Houston, Texas
- CHI Franciscan Health, Tacoma, Washington
References
- Catholic Health Initiatives About Us page
External links
- Official website
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