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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 on in the Western United States (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California) as well as 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.

In recent years the company has been the subject of several controversies. A New York Times investigation revealed a Providence program pressured low-income patients to make payments to the company, even though the hospital was supposed to give them free care in exchange for tax benefits. The newspaper also found that the company received more than $500 million in government funds intended for hospitals at risk of going under while the hospital chain had nearly $12 billion in cash reserves.

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. 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 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, CEO 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 CEO 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 was the first US hospital chain to treat a patient with COVID-19 in Washington state.

Organization

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

Providence Health & Services 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 as of 2022. These facilities include the following:

Alaska

California

Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center

Montana

Oregon

Providence Newberg Medical Center

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

Texas

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

Controversies

In 2018, Providence paid its chief executive, Rod Hochman, more than $10 million.

A New York Times investigation in May 2020 revealed that Providence Health System obtained more than half of a billion in government funds which were intended to prevent health care providers from going under 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 profits per year.

A second The New York Times investigation found that Providence Hospital system had instituted a program to pressure low-income patients to make payments to the company, even though the hospital was supposed to give them free care in exchange for tax benefits. The program called "Rev-Up" (Rev standing for revenue) was created shortly after the company's expensive merger with St. Joseph Health and was suggested by the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Hospital staff were instructed to not inform patients that they may qualify for free care, and instead received training on how to approach patients and pressure them to pay. When patients refused, they were often sent to debt collection, a violation of some state laws that entitled low-income patents to free care, leading to a suit from the Attorney General of Washington. Providence denies that anything they did was illegal, however the company said they would stop using debt collectors and refund some payments.

In 2020 a Portland, Oregon area medical professional was allegedly fired from Providence St. Joseph Health for objecting to certain medical procedures on the grounds of her Catholic faith, namely for refusing to sign a document agreeing to refer patients for procedures such as such as tubal ligations and abortions.

References

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  4. ^ Garagas, Jane (September 29, 2003). "Sisters of Providence health-care legacy ending". Kitsap Sun. Yakima Herald-Republic, Associated Press. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
  5. The Bell and the River – Mary of the Blessed Sacrament McCrosson – Google Boeken. January 1957. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
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  19. ^ Drucker, Jesse; Silver-Greenberg, Jessica; Kliff, Sarah (May 25, 2020). "Wealthiest Hospitals Got Billions in Bailout for Struggling Health Providers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
  20. Silver-Greenberg, Jessica; Thomas, Katie (September 24, 2022). "They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay". The New York Times. Retrieved September 24, 2022.
  21. "A Catholic healthcare worker objected to contraception. Her Catholic clinic fired her". TheCatholicTelegraph.com. September 10, 2020. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
  22. "A Catholic healthcare worker objected to contraception. Her Catholic clinic fired her". catholicnewsagency.com. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
  23. "In Portland, Catholic medical worker Megan Kreft follows conscience and gets fired". fahrdienste.org. Retrieved March 28, 2022.

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