Our Mission, Values and Vision
Each day, our people strive to provide compassionate care to those in need without exception or exclusion. Dignity Health was founded on this principle and it continues to guide us into the future. We are proud to share our mission, and our passion, with you.
Dignity Health and our Sponsoring Congregations are committed to furthering the healing ministry of Jesus. We dedicate our resources to:
Delivering compassionate, high-quality, affordable health services
Serving and advocating for our sisters and brothers who are poor and disenfranchised
Partnering with others in the community to improve the quality of life
Our History
Dignity Health was founded in 1986 and is the 8th largest not-for-profit system in the country.
Providing for Our Community
In 2008 we provided $967 million in charity care, un-reimbursed care and community benefits.
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.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Understanding is a two-way street.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
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.
Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine to exceed 100mph.
Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a beverage that would later be named 'Coca-Cola'.
Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion in the largest industrial merger in history.
