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Making an impact in hospitals and clinics across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington.

  • Providence’s Bold Commitment to Become Carbon Negative by 2030

    For Providence, our calling to serve all includes reducing our carbon footprint. We cannot create health for a better world and reduce health inequities if we ignore our own part in the problem. It’s a matter of justice for our communities to have cleaner air and water.

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  • 10 Health Care Trends to Watch in the Year Ahead

    As the world enters year three of the pandemic, Rod Hochman, M.D., president and CEO of Providence, released his annual list of health care predictions.

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  • Effort to Reframe Climate Change as a Health Crisis Gains Steam

    Around the world, health care providers are seeing the effects of climate change on their patients, as well as on the ability of hospitals to provide care during extreme weather.

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  • Paul G. Allen $20 Million Endowment Helps Fund Cancer Research and Innovation at Swedish Cancer Institute

    The $20 million gift, made shortly after his death in 2018, supports the creation of the Paul G. Allen Research Center at Providence Swedish.

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  • Pandemic Highlights Work to Be Done to Improve Racial, Economic Health Equity

    Dr. Nwando Anyaoku says building partnerships in the Black community to provide education and resources is key to closing gaps in healthcare.
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  • Providence Releases 2022 Environmental Stewardship Report

    Providence published its first Environmental Stewardship Report in April 2022, detailing our progress towards becoming carbon negative by 2030.

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  • Breaking Ground at Supportive Housing for Homeless Elders

    Providence Alaska House is a Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) project designed to address the needs of elders with significant health conditions who are experiencing homelessness.
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  • When the Caregiver Needs Care—Lynda’s Story

    As a Providence volunteer and  group vice president, Lynda Baxter has always taken pride in helping others. When she suddenly became the one who needed help, Lynda realized the help she needed could be found right the within her very own organization, at Providence Institute for Human Caring.

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  • When Giving Gets Personal—Why Michèle Gives to Institute for Human Caring

    Michèle Manning Herman is a Senior Program Manager at Providence—and a committed donor. For her, giving to Providence’s Institute for Human Caring is more than a way to honor the patients she serves— it’s also a way to honor the life of her beloved brother.  

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  • Providence’s Heart Transplant Centers Provide Lifesaving Services in Local Communities

    Highly skilled surgeons in Portland and Spokane’s state-of-the-art heart centers are breaking barriers in transplant medicine and providing new life to patients. 

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  • How Providence Hospitals in California Lowered C-section Rates for New Mothers

    Doctors and nurses support mothers during labor, rather than rushing to intervention, to reduce caesareans and related complications. 

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  • $40 Million Gift to Pacific Neuroscience Institute Brain Health Center Furthers Alzheimer’s Treatment and Research

    Will and Cary Singleton’s donation supports the Pacific Neuroscience Institute (PNI) Brain Health Center at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in its pursuit of novel and effective treatments for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related memory and cognition disorders.

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  • Philanthropy Provides Catalyst for COVID-19 Response and Research

    Just two months after Providence Medical Center in Everett, Washington, treated the nation’s first coronavirus patient in January 2020, Providence received a generous grant from the MJ Murdock Charitable Trust’s COVID-19 Strategic Fund.

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  • Providence Carbon Negative Case Study

    To achieve its goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030, Providence created the WE ACT framework to address over 80% of its carbon footprint.

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  • How Providence is Working to Become Carbon Negative

    Providence Environmental Stewardship and Advocacy leaders discuss the WE ACT framework and how it has been put into action over the past year to achieve the goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030.

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  • Providence Awarded Environmental Excellence from Practice Greenhealth

    Providence has received 24 awards for environmental performance in the health care sector in 2021—a testament to our efforts to become carbon negative by 2030.

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  • Pioneering Cancer Immunotherapy at Providence

    Oncology is being transformed as a result of research that shows how the immune system can recognize and destroy cancer cells. Dr. Walter J. Urba shares how philanthropy fuels cancer research, clinical trials and cutting-edge laboratory equipment that lead to these lifesaving treatments.

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  • Investing in Technology to Develop Seamless Health Care Delivery Solutions

    Finding new health care delivery solutions is key to the future of health. Providence Ventures partners with existing innovative solutions companies and begins new ventures to ensure patients across all communities have access to quality health care.

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  • Advancing Cancer Treatment with Genomic-Science Breakthroughs and Rapid-Testing Innovations

    Comprehensive Genomic Profiling is driving innovation across the 51-hospital system, advancing genomic science and imaging technology to diagnose cancer faster and treat it more effectively.

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  • Providence Supportive Housing Project Believes Housing Is Health

    The Providence Supportive Housing Project for seniors and people with disabilities includes 17 housing communities in Washington, Oregon and California. 

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About Providence

Providence is a national, nonprofit Catholic health system comprising a diverse family of organizations and driven by a belief that health is a human right. With 52 hospitals, over 1,000 physician clinics, senior services, supportive housing, and many other health and educational services, the health system and its partners employ more than 120,000 caregivers serving communities across seven states—Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington—with system offices in Renton, WA, and Irvine, CA.

Our Mission

As expressions of God’s healing love, witnessed through the ministry of Jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Our Vision

Health for a Better World

Our Promise

Know me, care for me, ease my way.

Our Values

Compassion
Dignity
Justice
Excellence
Integrity

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