Covenant Health Systems
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Covenant Health Systems is a non-profit Catholic health care system sponsoring hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living
residences and other health and elder services throughout New England.
, to direct, support and conduct their health care, elder care and social service systems throughout the United States. Today, Covenant Health Systems serves as sponsor, governance organization and manager of multiple health and elder care related organizations throughout New England.
Integrity: We promote justice, compassion and ethical behavior, respecting the dignity of each person.
Creativity: We shape our future, tempering idealism with realism, risk taking with prudence.
Excellence: We deliver all services with the highest level of quality performance.
Collaboration: We work in partnership, dialogue and shared purpose.
Service: Through a personal and communal commitment, we advance the physical, spiritual and emotional well-being of others, especially the poor and underserved
Assisted living
Assisted living residences or assisted living facilities provide supervision or assistance with activities of daily living ; coordination of services by outside health care providers; and monitoring of resident activities to help to ensure their health, safety, and well-being.Assistance may...
residences and other health and elder services throughout New England.
History
Covenant Health Systems was established in 1983 by the Grey NunsGrey Nuns
The Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal, formerly called The Order of Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal and more commonly known as the Grey Nuns of Montreal, is a Canadian order of Roman Catholic religious sisters...
, to direct, support and conduct their health care, elder care and social service systems throughout the United States. Today, Covenant Health Systems serves as sponsor, governance organization and manager of multiple health and elder care related organizations throughout New England.
Mission statement
Covenant Health Systems is an innovative Catholic health organization committed to advancing the healing ministry of Jesus.Values
Stewardship: We administer our human and material resources with responsibility and accountability.Integrity: We promote justice, compassion and ethical behavior, respecting the dignity of each person.
Creativity: We shape our future, tempering idealism with realism, risk taking with prudence.
Excellence: We deliver all services with the highest level of quality performance.
Collaboration: We work in partnership, dialogue and shared purpose.
Service: Through a personal and communal commitment, we advance the physical, spiritual and emotional well-being of others, especially the poor and underserved
Sponsors of member facilities
- Poor Sisters of Jesus Crucified and the Sorrowful Mother (CJC)
- St. Mary's Villa, Moscow, PA
- Religious Hospitallers of St. JosephReligious Hospitallers of St. JosephThe Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph was a religious order founded in La Fleche, France by the Venerable Jerome le Royer de la Dauversiere and Venerable Marie de la Ferre...
(RHSJ)- Fanny Allen Hospital, Colchester, VT
- Poor Sisters of Jesus Crucified and the Sorrowful Mother (CJC)
- St. Joseph Manor Health Care, Brockton, MA
Sponsors of affiliate facilities
- Sisters of Charity of Ottawa, Grey Nuns
- D'Youville Senior Care, Lowell, MA
- Sisters of Notre Dame de NamurSisters of Notre Dame de NamurThe Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, is the name of a Roman Catholic order of religious sisters, dedicated to providing education to the poor.The order was founded in Amiens in 1803, but the opposition of the local bishop to missions outside his diocese led to the moving of headquarters to then...
(SND)- Notre Dame du Lac Assisted Living Residence, Worcester, MA
- Notre Dame Long Term Care Center, Worcester, MA
- Sisters of St. Felix (Felician SistersFelician SistersThe Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice, or Felician Sisters, are one branch of the Third Order of St. Francis. The active-contemplative order was founded in Warsaw, Poland, in 1855, by Sophia Truszkowska, and named for a shrine of St. Felix, a 16th century Franciscan saint especially devoted to...
)- St. Joseph Hospital, Bangor, ME
- Sisters of St. JosephSisters of St. JosephThe title Sisters of St. Joseph applies to several Roman Catholic religious congregations of women. The largest and oldest of these was founded in Le Puy-en-Velay, France...
of Springfield (SSJ)- Mont Marie Health Care Center, Holyoke, MA
- Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (ICC)
- Matulaitis Nursing Home, Putnam, CT
- Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston (CSJ)
- Bethany Health Care Center, Framingham, MA
- Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate ConceptionDaughters of Mary of the Immaculate ConceptionThe Daughters of Mary of the Immaculate Conception was founded in 1904 by the Right Reverend Lucian Bojnowski. They are located in New Britain, Connecticut....
, (DM)- Sancta Maria Nursing Facility - Cambridge, New Britain, CT
Sponsors of managed facilities
- Sisters of Holy CrossSisters of Holy CrossThe Sisters of Holy Cross, headquartered in Montreal, Canada is Catholic congregation of religious sisters which traces its origins to the foundation of the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1837 in Le Mans, France by the Blessed Father Basil Anthony-Marie Moreau, CSC. Two other congregations of...
- Holy Cross Health Center/St. George Manor, Manchester, NH
- Sisters of Charity of Montreal, "Grey Nuns" (SGM)
- Youville Place, Lexington, MA