The
Sisters of St. Joseph of
Peace have been providing health care to communities in the Pacific
Northwest since 1890, when two Sisters traveled west from New Jersey to
establish a hospital in Bellingham, Wash. In 1976 they consolidated the various
health care ministries in their Western Province into a single not-for-profit
system, adopting the name PeaceHealth
in 1994.
Today PeaceHealth operates six hospitals, medical groups, a chemical dependency program, health care joint ventures, and other services in southeast Alaska, northwest Washington, southwest Washington/northwest Oregon, Oregon's Willamette Valley, and Oregon's central coast. System headquarters are in Bellevue, Wash. A system board sets overall direction, but each of the five regions has its own local governing board with responsibility to set local policy. The regions are also tied by a shared mission and values.
Read about PeaceHealth's philosophy of Healing and Compassionate Care.
In their effort to reach out to the poor of the world, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace established a spiritual and medical mission in El Salvador in 2000: El Salvador Health Mission.