Dignity Health at a Glance
Sure, compassionate care is what we’re known for. But delivering on this promise means never resting on our laurels. The world is always moving, changing. And this change starts with our people -- the hearts and hands of the care we provide. As a team, we must change with the times. We must anticipate the needs of our communities.
Shaping the future is no easy task. It demands accountability for quality. It requires training and development for tomorrow’s healthcare leaders. And practices that tread lightly on the planet, while supporting our patients in every way. It means living with purpose. Working and growing the Dignity Health way.
Snapshot
We're a community focused healthcare system founded in 1986.
Green Leadership
Our Environmental Leadership Award from Practice Greenhealth, recognizes Dignity Health as a health care organization that uses innovative ideas to meet green goals.
Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
There is no passion to be found in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
Connect to your core and you'll find strength. Act from your core and you'll move mountains.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting.
Namco releases the highly influential video game Pacman.
The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.
Amelia Earhart begins the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot.
World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates from Mount Sinai.
Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation.
Winston Churchill gave his first speech as prime minister: '...blood, toil, tears and sweat.'
1st Belgian woman, Ingrid Baeyens, to ascend Mount Everest.
The first heart-lung transplant surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz.
