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Description

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For 120 years The Christ Hospital has grown to become a leader in medical excellence The Christ Hospital is consistently recognized as one of the top 50 hospitals in the United States and is Greater Cincinnatis top choice for adult health care Patients of this 555bed notforprofit acute care facility receive advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality With a staff of more than 1000 physicians The Christ Hospital offers advanced services and technologies in cardiovascular care spine treatment womens health major surgery cancer orthopedics emergency care kidney transplant behavioral medicine and others

About Us
The Christ Hospital is a 555bed notforprofit acute care facility in Cincinnati Ohio We offer a wide range of medical surgical and testing services at our main campus in the urban core of Mt Auburn and at more than 50 outpatient and physician practice locations throughout Greater Cincinnati We are consistently recognized by US News amp World Report as one of the nations top hospitals have been named Cincinnatis Most Preferred Hospital for 15 consecutive years by National Research Corporation NRC and have been granted Magnet reg recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing care

The Christ Hospitals Mission Vision and Core Values

Mission
To provide the finest patient experience and improve the health of our community

Vision
We will be a national leader in clinical excellence and patient experience

Core Values ExCELS
EXcellence

Compassion

Efficiency

Leadership

Safety

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History

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Established in 1889 to alleviate distressing health care conditions in the area The Christ Hospital has a rich history in Mount Auburn and throughout Greater Cincinnati In 1888 a group of local citizens led by James Gamblewhose soap business eventually became the Procter amp Gamble companyinvited Isabella Thoburn a teacher nurse and missionary to come to Cincinnati They asked her to start a program to train deaconesses and missionaries to carry on religious educational and philanthropic work to alleviate the appalling poverty that existed in the city They could not have imagined the impact that their invitation would have on the city then and now more than a century later

Thoburn accepted the invitation and after her arrival soon expanded beyond ministering in 1889 she opened a 10bed hospital named Christs Hospital in the West End at 46 York Street It was moved to Mount Auburn in 1893 a nursing school was opened in 1902 and the hospital was renamed The Christ Hospital in 1904