No Catholic hospital in the U.S. is led by a nun — and many of the largest systems would be unrecognizable to their founding nuns.
St. Louis â Inside the more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country, not a single nun can be found occupying a chief executive suite, according to the Catholic Health Association.Nuns founded and led those hospitals in a mission to treat sick and poor people, but some were also shrewd business leaders. Sister Irene Kraus, a former chief executive of Daughters of Charity National Health System, was famous for coining the phrase 'no margin, no mission.
'Above all else, the Catholic faith calls on its hospitals to treat everyone regardless of race, religion or ability to pay, said Diarmuid Rooney, a vice president of the Catholic Health Association. No nuns run the trade group's member hospitals, according to the lobbying group. But the mission that compelled the nuns is 'what compels us now,' Rooney said. 'It's not just words on a wall.
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