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Description

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About Us
Providence Holy Family Hospital is a progressive full service hospital offering a full range of medical and surgical services as well as specialty support and outpatient services

Holy Family is among the largest 25 employers in Spokane County with over 1000 employees and more than 180 physicians representing most medical specialties

We are committed to a healing ministry of Jesus in the Catholic tradition emphasizing the values of respect compassion competence collaboration and justice We are also dedicated to community outreach activities promoting community health through education and other neighborhood issues projects and events

Service Area
Holy Family Hospital primarily serves north Spokane Countythe fastest growing area in our region We are currently licensed for 272 beds

Our Mission
As People of Providence we reveal Gods love for all especially 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
Holy Familys story begins in 1945 when the Dominican Sisters realizing that Spokanes population was moving north purchased a 40acre site east of Division Street for future use The Sisters who first came to the Northwest from Germany in 1925 envisioned a health care ministry that sought to quotrestore and maintain health promote wellness prevent illness whenever possible and help create a personcentered environment which fosters the healing processquot

The Sisters first facility on their North Spokane site was the Holy Family Convalescent Home which opened in 1960 Volunteers from the community solicited materials including a treadle sewing machine and a harness floor loom to support the facilitys program of teaching patients new skills and new ways to do old skills

Four years later the Sisters held an open house to celebrate the completion of their newest facility Holy Family Hospital Built at a cost of 34 million the hospital was funded by the Sisters and donations from the community Its three floors held four surgery rooms two delivery rooms three emergency rooms diagnostics pathology laboratories physical therapy and an intensive care unit ICU It was designed specifically to accommodate the needs of individual patients through classification into five levels of progressive care and was the first air conditioned structure of its kind in Eastern Washington

Poised for growth

As north Spokane grew so did Holy Family and its services to the community In 1965 the School of Radiologic Technology opened followed a year later by the first hospitalbased radiation therapy center of its kind in Spokane In 1968 a complete mobile emergency life support and cardiopulmonary resuscitation system was installed enabling hospital staff to initiate life support procedures within 26 seconds In 1969 Holy Family was the first hospital in the area to introduce modern methods of infection control It was also one of the first in the nation to use Unit Dosage in medications reducing the chance of medication errors and lowering medication costs to the patient

In the spring of 1970 the Convalescent Home was closed so that hospital services could be expanded A year later a 46 million construction program began that added two more patient floors expanded the operating rooms to seven expanded Emergency Services and added a Radiology Department

Holy Family continued to develop innovative programs and services In 1978 ShortStay was added for outpatient medical and surgical procedures In 1979 a new cardiac rehabilitation program opened the only monitored program at the time in Spokane In 1983 the Family Maternity Center opened housing the regions first singleroom labor and delivery care where all physician staff parent and baby interaction takes place in one room

The Emergency Center undersent several expansions during the next several years as the areas population continued to grow In 1990 a new 10bed circularlayout Intensive Care Unit was built in response to the increasing need for advanced technology and intensive care services That same year the Imaging Center was opened adding a second CT and MRI scanner to the hospitals existing diagnostic and imaging equipment In 1991 the Cancer Center was enhanced to provide patients with stateoftheart technology national protocols and a full continuum of outpatient and inpatient cancer treatment options under one roof

Continuing the Mission

By 1993 the Dominican Sisters of Spokane had become a small aging group They joined another congregation of sisters in Wisconsin but transferred sponsorship of the Dominican Network which included Holy Family Hospital and other hospitals in Northeast Washington to the Sisters of Providence to assure that quality health care would continue to be available to the communities they served

In the years since Holy Family Hospital has continued to keep pace with the changing health needs of the community and the rapid development of medical technology and health care Recent campus developments include a new Surgery Center 1994 Multiple Sclerosis Center 1999 Anticoagulation Clinic and Sleep Center 2001 Speech and Hearing Center and renovation of its ambulatory services imaging departments and newly expanded Emergency Center including two large truama rooms with the ability to treat up to 65000 patients a year 2004

Current projects include rennovations to increase patient space inprove access to central areas and conversion to singlepatient rooms