St. John's Mercy Health Care, an affiliate of the Sisters of Mercy Health System, is a not-for-profit health care system serving the greater St. Louis metro area and surrounding counties. The system offers some 1,200 beds and almost 1,300 physicians and is one of the largest Catholic-sponsored health care complexes in the nation. St. John's Mercy Health Care's network includes St. John's Mercy Medical Center, St. John's Hospital, Mercy Medical Group (a network of primary care physicians), a home health care division, a skilled nursing facility, and several specialty clinics. Specialty services include cardiac and cancer care and pediatrics.

St. Joseph Health System can meet their needs. The health care network operates 14 acute care hospitals, five home health agencies, a half-a-dozen urgent care centers, and other health care delivery organizations throughout California and in eastern New Mexico and western Texas. In its primary market of California, the health system has some 2,400 beds at nine hospitals. Its Covenant Health System unit operates in Texas and New Mexico with more than 1,300 beds in its network of some 50 primary care facilities.

St. Joseph Hospital of Orange serves Orange County and surrounding area residents, providing general medical and surgical services, as well as specialty care in a number of areas. Its range of clinical services includes women's health care, mental health services, oncology, cardiology, and physical rehabilitation. Part of the St. Joseph Health System, the hospital provides primary care and specialty outpatient services through a network of affiliated physician practices. It also operates low-income and mobile clinics. Founded in 1929 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, the hospital has about 525 beds and a medical staff of some 1,000.

St. Joseph's Healthcare System takes care of northern New Jersey. The health care system's facilities include St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, a tertiary teaching hospital with about 650 beds that includes the 120-bed St. Joseph's Children's Hospital. The regional hospital has a state-designated trauma center and provides specialty services including cardiology, oncology, obstetrics, and neurology. St. Joseph's Healthcare also operates St. Joseph's Wayne Hospital, a community medical center with some 230 beds. Other operations include St. Vincent's Nursing Home, a home health agency, and a network of community clinics. St. Joseph's Healthcare System is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth.

St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center serves the residents of more than a dozen central New York counties. The not-for-profit hospital system provides general, emergency, and surgical care, as well as specialty services in areas such as obstetrics, cardiology, hemodialysis, and wound care. In addition to its inpatient facilities, the organization operates a home health agency, as well as several outpatient care centers and a dental clinic. Its Franciscan Management Services affiliate offers some ancillary services, including home respiratory therapy and home medical equipment. St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center was founded in 1869.

St. Joseph's has been caring mercifully for residents in the Hot Springs environs for well over a century. St. Joseph's Mercy Health Center, the second-oldest hospital in Arkansas, has more than 300 beds and provides acute and tertiary care, as well as home health care. The hospital is a not-for-profit health facility and is part of the Sisters of Mercy Health System. It has specialty units focused on cancer, cardiovascular, women, and senior care. Established in 1888, in 2010 St. Joseph's Mercy announced it would acquire local rival HealthPark Hospital as well as HealthFirst Physicians Group and Hot Springs Village Clinic. All of the acquired medical providers will operate under the St. Joseph Mercy moniker.

St. Joseph's Wayne Hospital helps its patients get back into a healthy realm. The acute care facility serves the residents of northern New Jersey. Part of St. Joseph's Healthcare System, the hospital has some 230 beds and more than 300 physicians on staff, and offers services including ambulatory, cardiopulmonary, endoscopy, pathology, radiology, and senior care. It also includes an onsite rehabilitation facility. Its emergency department treats about 30,000 patients each year. Established in 1871, the Catholic hospital is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth.

St. Joseph's Women's Hospital health care facility has nearly 200 beds. Obstetrics and gynecology are at the heart of the hospital's services, as well as perinatal, urological, and surgical offerings. St. Joseph's Women's Hospital also provides breast cancer treatment and heart care targeted specifically to women, and it has a center dedicated to women in post-child bearing stages. Its medical staff includes more than 200 physicians. The specialty care hospital is part of St. Joseph's-Baptist Health Care, which is in turn part of the BayCare Health System.

St. Joseph's/Candler Health System is a largest health system in the region, SJ/C is anchored by two main hospitals, St. Joseph's Hospital (305 beds) and Candler Hospital (320 beds). The facilities provide a spectrum of care with specialties that include cardiac and cancer care, orthopedics, and robotic surgery. The two hospitals, which merged to become SJ/C in 1997, also administer home healthcare, as well as a variety of community outreach and education efforts through their mobile units. SJ/C operates a network of primary care clinics and outpatient rehabilitation centers scattered throughout the area.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital studies and treats catastrophic diseases in children, especially pediatric cancers. The hospital only has about 70 beds -- most of the more than 5,000 children it treats annually are seen on an outpatient basis as part of the hospital's research efforts into finding cures and more effective treatments. St. Jude not only helps kiddos with their health; it also helps out their parents: The organization pays all expenses not covered by insurance, and patients without insurance don't have to pay. Entertainer Danny Thomas founded St. Jude in 1962; Thomas also founded the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities (ALSAC), the fundraising organization for the hospital.

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