Alegent Health System is a non-profit faith based health organization with headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...

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Hospitals

Alegent Health is made up of nine acute care hospitals, five of which are located in the Omaha metro area. Bergan Mercy Medical Center

Bergan Mercy Medical Center

Bergan Mercy Medical Center is a part of the Alegent Health System located in Omaha, Nebraska.-History:The hospital was founded in 1910 when the Sisters of Mercy opened Saint Catherine's Hospital at Ninth and Forest Streets. In 1964, a new 250-bed hospital, now known as Bergan Mercy, was opened...

, Immanuel Medical Center

Immanuel Medical Center

Immanuel Medical Center is a part of the Alegent Health System located in Omaha, Nebraska.-History:In 1879, the Rev. Erik Alfred Fogelstrom came to Nebraska to serve the Swedish population in Omaha as pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church. On October 8, 1887, Pastor Foglestrom and others organized...

, Lakeside Hospital, Midlands Hospital and Mercy Hospital in neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Council Bluffs, known until 1852 as Kanesville, Iowathe historic starting point of the Mormon Trail and eventual northernmost anchor town of the other emigrant trailsis a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States and is on the east bank of the Missouri River across...

. Alegent Health has more than 100 sites of service, over 1,300 physicians on its medical staff and roughly 9,000 employees.

Mission

Faithful to the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, our mission is to provide high quality care for the body, mind and spirit of every person. The organization seeks to create caring and compassionate environments, respect the dignity of every person, care for the resources entrusted to us as responsible stewards, collaborate with others to improve the health of our communities, attend especially to the needs of those who are poor and disadvantaged, act with integrity in all endeavors.

History

Alegent Health is sponsored by Catholic Health Initiatives

Catholic Health Initiatives

Catholic Health Initiatives is a faith-based, non-profit health system. It is the second largest Catholic health system in the United States and the fifth largest US health system overall....

 and Immanuel Health Systems. It was created in 1996, resulting from a long-standing partnership between Immanuel Medical Center and Bergan Mercy Medical Center under the Community Health Vision. Both boards unanimously approved the union. The campuses joined together along with Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa and two regional health partners, Corning and Schuyler, as one health care system while maintaining their own identities and religious affiliations. In 1997 Midlands Hospital joined Alegent Health. In 2004, Lakeside Hospital, the first full-service hospital in west Omaha was opened. In 2008, Alegent Health broke ground on a $315 million renovation/expansion project dubbed
"Generation Patient" at all five of its metro hospital campuses, which are expected to be completed in 2011.