title: Business conversion. Catholic Healthcare West ends formal ties to church and hopes as Dignity Health that it can more easily add non-Catholic hospitals.
abstract: Catholic Healthcare West is now rechristened Dignity Health. Freed from its formal ties with the Roman Catholic Church, it's seeking to expand east by more easily adding hospitals that may have previously been apprehensive about adopting Catholic ethical directives. "I would say our vision has not changed and neither has our mission as being a voice for the voiceless," says Lloyd Dean, left, the system's president and CEO.
authors.forename: Ashok
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Selvam
mesh_terms: D002410:Catholicism; D006273:Health Facility Merger; D016519:Hospitals, Religious; D006801:Humans; D009935:Organizational Affiliation; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D015206:Southwestern United States