Health Care

Care of the sick has been a ministry of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace since our founding when our early sisters visited the sick in their own homes and established hospitals in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Today the Congregation continues our commitment to health care through our sponsorship of the following health care institutions. Sisters and associates also minister directly in health care in a variety of settings.

Holy Name Medical Center 
Holy Name Medical Center was founded in 1925 in Teaneck, New Jersey. Since then the hospital has grown to become a fully accredited, dynamic medical center by implementing advanced technologies and best practices in patient care, facilities management, and emergency preparedness. Among the specialized services are the Regional Cancer Center, the Interventional Institute, the MS Center, the Institute for Simulation Learning, and the Institute for Clinical Research. Holy Name is committed to superior patient care in a culturally sensitive environment.

PeaceHealth 
PeaceHealth, based in Vancouver, Washington, is a not-for-profit Catholic health system offering care to communities in Washington, Oregon and Alaska. In 1891, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace founded what would become PeaceHealth. The Sisters shared expertise and transferred wisdom from one medical center to another, always finding the best way to serve the unmet need for healthcare in their communities. Today, PeaceHealth has approximately 16,000 caregivers, a group practice with more than 1,200 providers and nine medical centers serving both urban and rural communities throughout the Northwest. PeaceHealth is the legacy ministry of the founding Sisters and continues with a spirit of respect, stewardship, collaboration, and social justice in fulfilling its mission to “carry on the healing mission of Jesus Christ by promoting personal and community health, relieving pain and suffering, and treating each person in a loving and caring way.”

PazSalud
PazSalud (PeaceHealth in Spanish) was created in 2000 in collaboration with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace to share the gifts of the PeaceHealth health system with patients living in poverty in El Salvador. Originally PeaceHealth caregivers along with a few Sisters went to El Salvador to provide basic health care in remote villages that lacked any local care. In 2021, PeaceHealth and the Sisters re-envisioned PazSalud’s mission model to adapt to a changing world. PazSalud’s current model focuses on domestic medical missions composed of international partners supporting local Salvadoran providers in delivering healthcare to the country’s many underserved patients. Our work, at its very core, embodies the sisters’ legacy charism of peace through justice - defining who we are as agents of change in domestic and global health. PeaceHealth, through PazSalud, continues to honor its commitment of striving for healthcare equity and providing the best care to the most vulnerable patients – both in the Pacific Northwest and beyond the borders of the United States.