Among the most fundamental human needs are food shelter and access to health care,
and there's one more requirement people who care about what other people need that's the story of
CHRISTUS Health. CHRISTUS is a non-profit Catholic health care system that spans the Americas.
CHRISTUS operates almost 50 hospitals and dozens of other health care centers in the United States,
Mexico, Chile and Colombia. We're a diverse system including hospitals large and small in urban and
rural areas outpatient services than clinics a physician group, insurance plans, palm care
and long-term care services in our last fiscal year. We touched almost 1.8 million people in the
US alone and were one of the 10 largest Catholic hospital systems in North America. CHRISTUS health
is built on a mission and on heritage the mission to extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ.
The heritage a tradition of caring that goes back to the days of the American frontier in
the 1860s the first Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word were called from Lyon France
to provide health care in the fledgling city of Galveston, Texas. For nearly a century and a half,
the sisters and their partners continued to build hospitals across the south and southwest United
States in 1999. These hospitals were united in a single system under the name CHRISTUS Health
and in 2016 CHRISTUS Health added a third sponsoring congregation the sisters of the
Holy Family of Nazareth. We're excited to have even more prayerful support and guidance from
our new sponsors whose congregation was founded in 1875 and arrived in Tyler, Texas in 1937. Today,
we're growing and serving our communities with four relevant and timely focuses. We're
focused on clinical integration and population health management. CHRISTUS is working closely
with physicians and other partners to coordinate care and make the transition from acute care to
accountable care moving from focusing only on healing those who are sick to working to keep
whole populations well. We're working with local communities to tackle chronic health
problems before we have to treat the victims of them we're working to expand ambulatory care
healing people outside of the hospital whenever possible, providing care in new and innovative
ways that are convenient and that meet the needs of busy populations. We're working to care for the
most vulnerable and we're working to make sure more people have access to the care they need.
We're focused on operational efficiency and effectiveness, we're dedicated to providing
care of the highest value. That starts with being good stewards of our resources,
being as efficient and effective as we can while providing the best care ensures that
we can continue to invest expand and serve more in need and we work to be the model
of providing personal and compassionate care to our patients. We work to ensure
that all those who share in our ministry are engaged motivated and fulfilled in
their work because we know that satisfied and engaged health workers provide the best care.
We're focused on growth through building out our strongest markets and increasing our relevance
within them. We continually assess community needs and grow to meet them we meet needs by
the services we provide both inside and outside our facilities that's why CHRISTUS provided
over three hundred twenty two million dollars in community benefit in our 2016 fiscal year. Today,
CHRISTUS operates primarily in four US states Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas and Louisiana with
other ministries in Georgia and Iowa and we're not done growing. In 2016, CHRISTUS Health welcomed
Trinity mother Francis Hospitals and Clinics to the CHRISTUS Health system adding around 4,500
associates and physicians to the CHRISTUS family. We then expanded further into the state of Texas
with a partnership in Sulfur Springs adding Memorial Hospital and clinic to our family.
They are now CHRISTUS Mother Francis Hospitals, Sulphur Springs and CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic.
Sulphur Springs and CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic Emery with this partnership we welcome another 800
associates and physicians to the CHRISTUS family. And we are working to complete the transformation
of the Children's Hospital of San Antonio, which began in 2012. In the last four years,
we have continued to serve thousands of families and children with comprehensive
integrated health care services while undergoing a 135 million dollar renovation and expansion of
our Hospital campus. Today, the Children's Hospital of San Antonio has been transformed
inside and out to reflect the very best care available for the children of our region.
Our final focus is on continuing to expand our services in Latin America from our earliest
days in the 18th Century. Latin America has been part of the CHRISTUS mission in Mexico
CHRISTUS mu garza serves the population through nine state-of-the-art hospitals and dozens of
other facilities and services in six days. And in Santiago, Chile Christa says partnership with
the Pontifical Catholic University has been named the number one health care brand in the country.
We're also incredibly excited about Colombia where our partnership with cumavi will provide
the best health care outcomes for patients and their communities we're joining with cumavi in
hospitals clinics home care and health insurance to offer health care and health insurance services
in virtually every community in the country. Together, our shared values and vision for the
future of health care in South America will give us a powerful presence Combe a VA's commitment to
caring for its members and their communities matches the mission and goals of CHRISTUS.
Today, CHRISTUS and our forty thousand associates are changing the way health
care improves the lives of individuals in the Americas we've been serving our
communities and extending our mission for 150 years and we're making sure we have
the leadership to continue improving our care for the next 150. This is
our CHRISTUS Health. This is our CHRISTUS. This is our CHRISTUS. This is our CHRISTUS.
This is our CHRISTUS Health expanding innovative health and wellness solutions across the globe.