A Legacy of Care for Every Californian

For nearly 170 years, Dignity Health has been on a mission of healing for all Californians. As one of the state’s largest healthcare providers today, we continue to boldly deliver care to people of all backgrounds, in every part of the state. From Los Angeles to Santa Cruz, Stockton to Merced and Redding to Bakersfield, we’re focused on healing communities of color, the poor, the underserved and the unjustly treated. This website exists to share those patients’ stories along with our impassioned work to champion the lives of every Californian.

Dignity Health cares for every Californian who needs healing: without exception, without hesitation. That’s because we believe everyone is born with dignity—Black and White, Latinx and Asian, gay and straight, trans and cis, old and young, dreamers and doers, artists and entrepreneurs—and everyone has the right to be healthy.

The care we provide every Californian through Dignity Health’s hospitals, care sites and partnerships forms the backbone of California’s safety-net health system—and the very heart of our foundational mission. We began healing Californians in 1854, when eight Sisters of Mercy responded to the pandemics of the day—cholera, typhoid and influenza—by caring for those without means.

Today we are one of the largest providers in the state, delivering care to more Medicaid recipients than any other provider. Every year, hundreds of thousands of patients—including communities of color, LGBTQ+ and those with limited access to care—get timely access to services they critically need. With 31 hospitals across California, Dignity Health is the only provider to have facilities in every region of the state. The clinical and non-clinical partnerships that Dignity Health leads, including those with the University of California, cities and counties up and down the state, and nonprofits like the United Way, extend our care even further. Dignity Health is not for profit and operates both Catholic and other-than-Catholic hospitals.

Dignity Health knows California’s spirit and Californians’ values. We safeguard them and we celebrate them. Most importantly, we live them. We never want to stop caring for every Californian. We invite our critics to speak to our patients—like the ones whose stories you’ll find here at this website. They don’t want us to stop caring for them either.