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About Us
With 644 beds Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center amp Childrens Hospital is one of the largest hospitals in the Northwest employing more than 4000 health care professionals and support staff Our medical staff provides the expertise and skills of over 800 specialists and primary care doctors Volunteers who provide support to many hospital services include 400 women men and young people

Mission and Values
Our Mission
As people of Providence we reveal Gods love for all particularly the poor and vulnerable through our compassionate service

Core Values
Compassion

Respect

Excellence

Justice

Stewardship

Vision
Our ministry will be a transformational force for advancing health care excellence and access for all

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History

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History
As we commemorate the 125th Anniversary of Providence Sacred Heart this year were taking a monthbymonth look at the events that have shaped our past

The names of Mother Emilie Gamelin the foundress of the Sisters of Providence and Mother Joseph who led the building of Sacred Heart are well known Neither of them however was the first administrator of the hospital

That claim belongs to Sister Joseph of Arimathea also known as Little Joseph The Sisters filled the top leadership role at the hospital from its beginning in 1886 until 1988 when Sister Peter Claver pictured above overseeing construction of the new hospital retired at that point the Sisters began hiring lay executives

While the Sisters numbers are dwindling their presence is alive and well in the carrying out the Providence Mission