CommonSpirit Health

CommonSpirit Health is the largest Catholic health system,[2] and the second-largest nonprofit hospital chain, in the United States.[3] It operates more than 700 care sites and 142 hospitals in 21 states.[1][4] Founded, in 2019, by the merger of Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives; CommonSpirit Health formed as one of the largest non-profit hospital systems by revenue in the United States.[5]

CommonSpirit Health
TypeNonprofit organization
IndustryHealthcare
FoundedFebruary 1, 2019 (2019-02-01)
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois,
U.S.
Number of locations
142 hospitals
700 care sites
Key people
Lloyd H. Dean, CEO
ServicesHospital management
Number of employees
150,000[1] (2019)
Divisions
Websitecommonspirit.org
Footnotes / references
Formed by 2019 merger

History

Formed on February 1, 2019 the hospital network was created by the merger of two nonprofit hospital systems: San Francisco-based Dignity Health, and Catholic Health Initiatives of Colorado.[6]

Dignity Health was founded in 1986 as Catholic Healthcare West, when the Sisters of Mercy Burlingame Regional Community and the Sisters of Mercy Auburn Regional Community merged their healthcare ministries into one organization.[7]

Catholic Health Initiatives began operations in 1996.[7][8] The founding systems were the Catholic Health Corporation of Omaha, Nebraska, the Franciscan Health System of Aston, Pennsylvania, and the Sisters of Charity Health Care Systems of Cincinnati, Ohio.[8]

Financial

In the 2018 fiscal year, CommonSpirit Health's founding organizations Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health provided $4.2 billion in charity care, community benefit, and the unreimbursed cost of government programs.[9]

CommonSpirit reported operating losses of $227 million in the first quarter of 2020, while combining Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives into a single organization.[10]

Leadership

Lloyd H. Dean and Kevin E. Lofton served as joint CEOs for the health system from its founding, in early 2019. Prior, Dean was CEO and president at Dignity Health, and Lofton was CEO of Catholic Health Initiatives.[11] Lofton retired at the end of June 2020, leaving Dean as sole CEO.[12]

References
  1. "Dignity Health, CHI Finalize $29B CommonSpirit Health Megamerger". HealthLeaders Media. February 1, 2019.
  2. "Record Merger Creates Nation's Largest Nonprofit Catholic Healthcare Company". Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly. 2019-02-06. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  3. "The steep challenge facing Chicago's newest health care giant". Crain's Chicago Business. 2019-05-03. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  4. "Dignity Health and CHI merge to form new $29B system". MedCity News. February 4, 2019.
  5. "CHI-Dignity merger cleared by Vatican". Modern Healthcare. October 16, 2018.
  6. Dietsche, Erin (February 4, 2019). "Dignity Health and CHI merge to form new $29B system".
  7. "Dignity Health merging with Colorado's Catholic Health Initiatives". Daily Democrat. 2017-12-08. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  8. Salganik, M. William (15 March 1998). "Catholic hospital chains are growing the fastest Nonchurch institutions that merge with them usually ban abortions; Health care". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  9. "CommonSpirit Health brings Hospital-Level Care into the Comfort of the Home with Contessa". AP NEWS. May 20, 2019.
  10. Pifer, Rebecca (2020-09-19). "CommonSpirit growing pains lead to quadrupled operating loss in 1st quarter". Healthcare Dive. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
  11. "3 questions with Lloyd Dean and Kevin Lofton, CEOs of the new CommonSpirit Health". Becker's Hospital Review. February 1, 2019.
  12. "Lloyd Dean becomes sole CEO of CommonSpirit". Beckers Hospital Review. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
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