Company Profile
Ascension
Company Overview
Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., Ascension is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. In FY2018, Ascension provided nearly $2 billion in care of persons living in poverty and other community benefit programs. Ascension includes approximately 156,000 associates and 34,000 aligned providers. The national health system operates more than 2,600 sites of care – including 151 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities – in 21 states and the District of Columbia, while providing a variety of services including physician practice management, venture capital investing, investment management, biomedical engineering, facilities management, clinical care management, information services, risk management, and contracting through Ascension’s own group purchasing organization.
Company History
Advancing an 800-year legacy and promise set forth by our original sponsor organizations to provide faith-based healthcare to those in need.
Timeline
1999: Daughters of Charity National Health System and Sisters of St. Joseph Health System form Ascension Health
2002: Carondelet Health System joins Ascension Health
2004: Ascension Health recognized as largest Catholic healthcare system in the United States
2012: Ascension Health and subsidiaries form Ascension
2012: Alexian Brothers Health System joins Ascension
2013: Health ministries of the former Marian Health System - Ministry Health Care, Wisconsin; St. John Health System, Oklahoma; and Via Christi Health, Kansas - join Ascension
2014: Ascension Senior Living, one of the largest nonprofit senior living providers in the U.S., is formed
2014: Ascension At Home - a joint venture with Evolution Health, a division of Envision Healthcare – is established to provide non-acute care services including home and hospice care and infusion therapy
2015: Crittenton Hospital Medical Center in Michigan joins Ascension
2016: The Southeast Wisconsin operations and related corporate services of Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare join Ascension.
2018: Presence Health joins Ascension
Today: Ascension, one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., operates more than 2,600 sites of care in 21 states and the District of Columbia. Ascension is a leading voice for Catholic healthcare and advocate among Catholic healthcare organizations.