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Ascension Health and Workplace Spirituality: Strong Foundation, Sustainable Future

In: Handbook of Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace

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  • Sara McGinnis Lee

    (Ascension Health)

  • Laura Richter

    (Ascension Health)

  • Sister Maureen McGuire

    (Ascension Health)

Abstract

This chapter shares the story of Ascension Health in order to offer an example of one company that has continuously integrated spirituality into its work and its workplaces successfully and with commitment. That story begins with religious sisters in the seventeenth-century France, follows the sisters to America in the nineteenth century, comes under our current name with the merging of two health Systems in 1999, and continues today with dedicated teams of lay and religious leading health-care ministry in more than 1,400 locations in 21 states and the District of Columbia under the Ascension Health banner. Our organization is the largest Catholic nonprofit health-care System in the United States, with more than 121,000 associates. Throughout the change and growth necessary for this trajectory, spirituality has undergirded both the proVision of healthcare and the commitment and care of associates.

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  • Sara McGinnis Lee & Laura Richter & Sister Maureen McGuire, 2013. "Ascension Health and Workplace Spirituality: Strong Foundation, Sustainable Future," Springer Books, in: Judi Neal (ed.), Handbook of Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 647-671, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4614-5233-1_35
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5233-1_35
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