Mount Carmel Health System Explained

Mount Carmel Health System
Type:	faith-based
Location City:	Columbus, Ohio
Industry:	Health care
Parent:	Trinity Health

Mount Carmel Health System is a health care system in central Ohio.

History

The Sisters of the Holy Cross opened the original Mount Carmel Hospital in Columbus in 1886.^[1]

Operations

The company employs over 8,200 staff and 1,920 physicians in their outpatient facilities and four hospitals. Mount Carmel East opened in 1972 near Reynoldsburg. It was followed by Mount Carmel Grove City in Grove City, Mount Carmel St. Ann's in Westerville, and Mount Carmel New Albany Surgical Hospital in New Albany.^[2] Mount Carmel also operates the Medicare Advantage plan MediGold. It opened Columbus CyberKnife in 2010 at Mount Carmel St. Ann's.^[3]

Mount Carmel West operated from 1886 to 2019.

The system is the second largest member of its parent company, Trinity Health.^[4]

Partnerships

Mount Carmel partners with the for-profit Acadia Healthcare, which operates its Mount Carmel Behavioral Health facility on Columbus's east side.^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: 29 July 2022 . Mount Carmel East celebrates 50th anniversary . Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus.
2. Web site: Mount Carmel Health System Hospitals and Healthcare in Columbus, Ohio . 2024-09-02 . Mount Carmel Health.
3. News: Tortora . Andrea . Jul 29, 2011 . Health magnet: CyberKnife . subscription . Columbus Business First.
4. Web site: Ghose. Carrie. Mount Carmel grows to $1.7B as it starts next expansion phase. bizjournals.com. American City Business Journals. 14 February 2018. 30 October 2015.
5. Web site: Bannow . Tara . 2024-07-08 . Troubled for-profit chains are stealthily operating dozens of psychiatric hospitals under nonprofits’ names . 2024-09-02 . . en-US.
6. Web site: Viviano . JoAnne . New Mount Carmel behavioral-health hospital to be built on East Side . 2024-09-02 . . en-US.