About Catholic Health

Experts in Medicine, Leaders in Care

Catholic Health is an integrated system encompassing some of the region’s finest health and human services agencies. The health system has nearly 16,000 employees, six acute care hospitals, three nursing homes, a home health service, hospice and a network of physician practices.

Under the sponsorship of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, Catholic Health serves hundreds of thousands of Long Islanders each year, providing care that extends from the beginning of life to helping people live their final years in comfort, grace and dignity.

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Our History & Honors

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Catholic Health provides nationally recognized, award-winning care at our hospitals and continuing care facilities across Long Island.

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Recognized nationally by Modern Healthcare as among the Best Places to Work in both 2020 and 2019, the only New York State provider so honored.
Named by Newsday as a Top Workplace on Long Island in both 2018 and 2019.
All six Catholic Health hospitals are recognized for excellence in stroke care by the American Stroke Association. St. Charles Hospital is named a Get With the Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus facility and St. Francis Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mercy Hospital, St. Catherine of Siena Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital each garnered Stroke Gold Plus with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Honors. These awards highlight our hospitals’ shared commitment to providing the most appropriate stroke treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines. (2021)
All six Catholic Health hospitals have earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® and are fully accredited.
Catholic Health is recognized as a Diabetes Education Center of Excellence by the American Diabetes Association at 10 sites: St. Charles Hospital (outpatient Diabetes Education Program); St. Francis Hospital (outpatient Diabetes Education Program); St. Joseph Hospital (outpatient Diabetes Education Program); Mercy Hospital (outpatient Diabetes Education Program); St. Francis Hospital at Great South Bay – Primary Care practice; Catholic Health Ambulatory Care at Lake Success - Endocrinology; Catholic Health Ambulatory Care at West Babylon - Endocrinology; Catholic Health Ambulatory Care at 500 Commack Road – Primary Care; Pediatric Endocrinology (655 Deer Park Ave) and Good Samaritan University Hospital’s Maternal Fetal Medicine (also covers St. Catherine of Siena and St. Charles Hospitals).

St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center®

Good Samaritan University Hospital

St. Charles Hospital

Rated by U.S. News & World Report as High Performing in Hip Replacement. (2023-2024)
Received the 2022 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. Additionally, made the Association’s Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll.
Received a 4-Star rating for patient satisfaction from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). (July 2022)
Joint Commission Advanced Certification for Disease Specific Program—Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement Programs.
Joint Commission Advanced Certification Disease Specific Program—Stroke.
Joint Commission Advanced Certification Disease Specific Program—Palliative Care.
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) Accreditation for Inpatient and Outpatient Medical Rehabilitation for both adults and Children, Pediatric Rehabilitation Specialty Programs, Brain Injury Specialty Programs, and Stroke Rehabilitation Specialty Programs. (2020)
Cancer Program Received Commission on Cancer (COC) Accreditation.
Accredited as a Comprehensive Center with Adolescent Qualifications by Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSQIP) of the American College of Surgeons.
Received all three of Healthgrades’ Women’s Care Specialty Excellence Awards for 2020. St. Charles is the only hospital in NYS to achieve the OBGYN Excellence Award 3 Years in a row, the Labor and Delivery Excellence Award 6 Years in a Row and the 2020 Gynecologic Surgery Excellence Award. (2020)

St. Catherine of Siena Hospital

Rated by U.S. News & World Report as High Performing in Heart Failure and Pneumonia. (2023-2024)
Received a 4-Star rating for patient satisfaction from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). (July 2022)
Received the 2022 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award as well as the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Award. Additionally, made the Association’s Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll.
Accredited by The Joint Commission, the nation’s largest standards-setting, accrediting body in health care.
Holds Joint Commission Accreditation for disease-specific care—Stroke.
Holds Joint Commission Advanced Certification for Program Specific Diseases—Palliative Care.
Recognized by U.S. News & World Report as high performing for COPD, heart failure, and kidney failure. (2020-2021)
Designated a Baby-Friendly® birth facility by Baby-Friendly USA, the first hospital to earn the designation in Suffolk County.
Designated Bariatric Center of Excellence by The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
Received the 2021 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award as well as the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Award. Additionally, made the Association’s Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll.
Earned Healthgrades’ five-star rating for C-Section Delivery in 2020.
Designated a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology.
Accredited by the American College of Radiology in MRI, CT, ultrasound, ultrasound breast, ultrasound-guided breast biopsy, ultrasound vascular, mammography and stereotactic breast biopsy.

Mercy Hospital

Rated by U.S. News & World Report as High Performing in Diabetes and Hip Fracture. (2022-2023)
Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer for four consecutive surveys (12 years in a row) and Three-Year Accreditation with Gold-Level Commendation. (2019)
The Joint Commission's Disease-Specific Certificate for Sepsis Care—the first hospital in NY to earn Gold Seal (2019)
Received the 2022 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award as well as the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Award. Additionally, made the Association’s Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll.
ICU Unit received Silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence from the AACN (American Association of Critical-Care Nurses).

St. Joseph Hospital

Received the 2022 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award as well as the Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Award. Additionally, made the Association’s Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll.
Rated by U.S. News & World Report as high performing for heart failure, COPD and kidney failure. (2021-2022)
Earned the Target Honor Roll Elite Plus Quality Achievement Award from the American Stroke Association (2019).
Earned three-year accreditation in ultrasound from the American College of Radiology (2019).
Diabetes Education Center of Excellence as recognized by the American Diabetes Association and the American Association of Diabetes Educators.
Winner of the 2018 HANYS Pinnacle Award for Quality and Patient Safety for "The Cultural, Clinical and Operational Benefits of Establishing a Robust Safe Patient Handling Program".

Continuing Care

LAST UPDATED: DECEMBER 2023

Well-Established History of Caring for Long Islanders

Catholic Health was founded in 1997 by the Diocese of Rockville Centre and encompasses facilities and services that originated as charitable institutions under the sponsorship of religious sponsors. Reaching back more than a century, various congregations of women religious shared a profound commitment to helping those in need on Long Island:

Toward the end of the 19th century, four Sisters of St. Dominic traveled from Germany to serve the needs of immigrants, soon establishing a school, an orphanage and two hospitals. In 1894, they opened a convalescent home, known today as Our Lady of Consolation Nursing & Rehabilitation.
The Daughters of Wisdom, originally from France, founded St. Charles Hospital in 1907 and Good Samaritan University Hospital in 1959.
Three nuns from the Congregation of the Infant Jesus began nursing the sick poor in 1905, and that work eventually grew into Nursing Sisters Home Care, which—now known as Catholic Health Home Care—became part of Catholic Health in 1998. Often referred to as the Nursing Sisters of the Sick Poor, this congregation also founded Mercy Hospital, the very first Catholic hospital in Nassau County, in 1913.
St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center^® was founded by the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in 1922. By 1949, St. Francis Hospital was the largest hospital in the U.S. dedicated to pediatric cardiac care and today is one of the nation’s leading cardiac centers.
St. Catherine of Siena Hospital joined Catholic Health in 2000, and St. Joseph Hospital became part of the system in 2010.
Our Continuing Care Division also comprises Good Samaritan Nursing & Rehabilitation, St. Catherine of Siena Nursing & Rehabilitation and Good Shepherd Hospice.

System Highlights

More than 1,900 hospital beds
685 nursing home beds
More than 16,000 employees
More than $3.1 billion in net revenue

Annually*, at Catholic Health:

5,077 newborn deliveries
372,930 home care visits
63,911 ambulatory surgeries
24,460 inpatient surgeries
493,731 ambulatory outpatient visits
18,382 cardiac catheterizations
5,454 coronary angioplasties
1,819 open heart surgeries
248,613 emergency department visits
154,230 hospice days of care
131,027 rehabilitation visits

*2022 statistics

A Long History of Caring

Catholic Health hospitals and continuing care facilities have decades of experience caring for Long Islanders, some for 100 years. Today, we continue our long-standing tradition of providing the communities we serve with high-quality, compassionate care.

Community Health

Catholic Health offers free wellness events and free health screenings across Long Island.

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Annual Report 2022

Catholic Health is unique, being the only faith-based health care system serving Long Island. We come to our work out of a true sense of mission, seeing every patient we care for in their totality—the body, mind and spirit. We are guided each day by our governing vision and values.

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