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Deaconess Gateway Hospital, The Women's Hospital, and The Heart Hospital are all part of the Deaconess Gateway Campus of the Deaconess Health System Located on Gateway Blvd in Newburgh, near Interstate 164, this health care campus offers acute care, women's health care, heart care, pediatric care, cancer treatment, and radiology and imaging.
Deaconess Hospital was the name of several hospitals in St. Louis, Missouri. The Deaconess tradition began in 19th-century Europe when Theodor Fliedner of Kaiserswerth, Germany, established the first Deaconess Home and Hospital in 1836. The word deaconess means “one who is devoted to service”, being the feminine gender of the word deacon. [1]
Deaconess Health System is one of the largest health care networks in the Illinois–Indiana–Kentucky tri-state area.It serves a total of 26 counties and consists of 9 hospitals within Southern Indiana and 2 hospitals in Kentucky.It has been ranked as the 2nd best hospital in Indiana and is rated high performing in 9 adult procedures and conditions.
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The Tennessee-based for-profit Community Health Systems bought both Deaconess and Valley Hospitals in Spokane for $270 million in 2008, and followed the purchase up with the $50 million acquisition of the Rockwood Clinic primary, specialty, and urgent care system that services the region to create an integrated clinic and hospital network. [8]
Anna Luella Witteman, a civic leader and superintendent of a Free Methodist mission home for girls, led the expansion of a medical building. [2] Witteman, and other women involved with the Free Methodist Church as deaconesses staffed the medical building, leading to the original name of the hospital (Deaconess Hospital). [2] [3]
In January 2014, Jordan Hospital joined the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center family of hospitals and became Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth. It was founded in 1899 when a group of leading citizens from Plymouth saw a need to build a hospital to serve residents and pursued the idea of "a hospital on the hill".
Elizabeth Catherine Ferard, first deaconess of the Church of England. The ministry of a deaconess is a usually non-ordained ministry for women in some Protestant, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Orthodox churches to provide pastoral care, especially for other women, and which may carry a limited liturgical role.