title: Ascending in healthcare. Roman Catholic Ascension Health has made a Fortune 500 name for itself with business acumen, risk-taking and efficiency.
abstract: In less than a decade, Ascension Health has risen to the top tier of U.S. healthcare systems, with operating revenue that bests household names like Google and Amazon.com. Helping lead the system's meteoric rise is CEO Anthony Tersigni, left. "We are a ministry. We're not a business. We do business practices for one basic reason: We have bondholders who are counting on us to repay the bonds."
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Evans
mesh_terms: D002410:Catholicism; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D016520:Entrepreneurship; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000639:trends*; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000191:economics; D016519:Hospitals, Religious / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007449:Investments; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D008824:Michigan; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011204:Poverty Areas; D012309:Risk-Taking; D014481:United States