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Providence Health & Services
Providence St. Vincent's Hospital located in Portland, Oregon
IndustryHealthcare
Founded1859
FounderSisters of Providence
HeadquartersRenton, Washington, United States
Area servedWestern United States
Key peopleRod Hochman, M.D. (President and CEO)
ServicesAcute care, surgical, medical clinics, hospice, home care, nursing homes, assisted living
Number of employees120,000
Websiteprovidence.org

Providence Health & Services is a not-for-profit Catholic health care system operating multiple hospitals and medical clinics across seven states, with headquarters in Renton, Washington. The health system includes 51 hospitals, more than 800 non-acute facilities, and numerous assisted living facilities in the western Half of the United States (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, New Mexico, and Texas. Providence Health & Services was founded by the Sisters of Providence in 1859 and merged with St. Joseph Health in 2016.

History

Providence Health System was established by the Sisters of Providence, a community of Roman Catholic sisters founded in Montreal, Quebec in the 1850s, who established a mission at Fort Vancouver and a hospital in Portland, Oregon. In 1859, the Sisters incorporated their work, creating the network of health care services known as Providence Health & Services. In 1891, they founded St. Elizabeth Hospital (now PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center), the Pacific Northwest's first permanent hospital, which opened with 13 beds. The sisters later established several schools and hospitals in Washington, Montana, Oregon, Alaska, British Columbia, and California.

Providence Health System was managed by the Sisters of Providence until December 31, 2009, when a Council of Sponsors known as Providence Ministries was created to serve as the canonical owners.

Providence Health & Services formally came into being January 1, 2006, with the merger of Providence Health System, the progenitor firm, and Providence Services, based in Spokane and the parent company of Providence Health Care. Providence Health Care itself was formed in 1998 when six hospitals operating under Providence Services incorporated into a single entity. The hospitals making up Providence Health Care constituted the Dominican Network, which became part of Providence Services in 1993.

In 2003, Health Management Associates purchased the Providence Health System properties in Central Washington, including Providence Yakima Medical Center (formerly St. Elizabeth) and Toppenish Hospital.

In 2012, Providence acquired Swedish Health Services in Seattle, Washington, to expand services to patients in Snohomish and King counties.

Rod Hochman, C.E.O. of Swedish Medical Center was hired by Providence Health & Services when Providence affiliated with Swedish in 2012. In April 2013, Hochman became the president and C.E.O. of Providence.

Providence entered a similar partnership with Pacific Medical Centers in 2014, which joined Swedish as part of Providence's Western HealthConnect division. In 2016, Providence Health & Services, based in Renton, Washington, and St. Joseph Health, based in Irvine, California, merged to created Providence St. Joseph Health.

In September 2019, the company announced plans to rebrand its assets under the Providence brand.

In January 2020, the company acquired Health Management Resources from Merck & Co., Inc.

Also in January 2020, Providence St. Joseph became the first US hospital chain to treat a patient with COVID-19 in Washington state.

Organization

Providence Medical Group, the "physician division" of Providence Health & Services, operates more than 250 clinics in neighborhoods throughout Alaska, California, Montana, Oregon and Washington, and employs over 1,600 physicians with expertise in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, dermatology and other specialties.

Providence Health & Services, the parent organization, provides outpatient services, transitional care, home and hospice care, substance abuse programs, mental health treatment, prevention and wellness programs, long-term care, and assisted living and housing. Providence Health Plan provides or administers health coverage to more than 375,000 members nationwide.

Providence has 51 hospitals and over 1,100 clinics in seven U.S. states—Alaska, Washington, Montana, Oregon, California, New Mexico, and Texas—as of 2022. These facilities include the following:

Alaska

Washington

Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia

The following were originally part of the Dominican Network and came into Providence Health & Services upon its formation in 2006

Montana

Oregon

Providence Newberg Medical Center

California

Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center

New Mexico

  • Hobbs Hospital

Texas

  • Covenant Medical Center – Lubbock
  • Covenant Children's Hospital – Lubbock
  • Grace Medical Center – Lubbock
  • Covenant Health Plainview
  • Covenant Health Levelland

Controversies

According to a New York Times investigation of multiple health systems published during May 2020, Providence obtained more than half of a billion in government funds which were intended to keep health care providers afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. At that time, Providence Health System had nearly $12 billion in cash reserves. By making investments with that fund, it generated approximately $1 billion in revenue per year. The American Hospital Association responded to the article, citing pandemic-related losses as high as $350 million per health system per month.

A second Times investigation found that Providence had instituted a program created by McKinsey & Company to request payments from patients to cover the cost of care left over following Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement. Hospital staff were reportedly instructed to negotiate payment plans, informing patients about financial assistance as a final option. Those who did not pay were sent to debt collection, a practice for which the Attorney General of Washington filed suit, alleging that they were in violation of state laws which entitled low-income patents to care with no copay. Providence countered the lawsuit, but stated they would stop using debt collectors and that they would refund 760 patients and work with credit agencies to “reverse any negative impact on credit.”

In 2020, a Portland, Oregon area physician assistant who had been barred from seeing female patients of child-bearing age because she refused to offer them contraceptive care went on to refuse to provide a "young" patient with emergency contraception. She was terminated after further refusing to agree to refer patients to other providers for those services which she did not wish to offer herself. Her refusals to provide care were based on her chosen interpretation of Catholicism. Providence Medical Group did not respond to request to the Catholic News Agency's request for comment.

Accolades

Not-for-profit health systems such as Providence commonly face financial challenges, owed in part to expectations that they offer care at no cost to low-income patients despite the fact that government programs do not cover the full cost of care. To confront this challenge, Providence created a venture capital arm, Providence Ventures, which incubates and invests in digital health ventures, generating revenue which supports Providence's charity mission to serve those who are living in poverty. Their efforts have been recognized through nomination to the Health Tech 50 list in 2022, with final awardees to be announced in late November 2023.

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