Sisters of Bon Secours: Where We Serve

Healthcare as a road to helping people to wholeness

Sister Victoria Segura, MD, CBS

The very first mission that brought the Sisters of Bon Secours together in the 1820's in Paris and led us to the United States in 1881 continues to thrive today in hospitals, community clinics and ambulatory care facilities, home health and hospice agencies, long-term care facilities, assisted living facilities and nursing schools today around the United States and overseas.

We take on a number of exciting and challenging roles as we provide care to help people live healthier lives, receive the highest quality treatment for illnesses and injuries, and ease the suffering of the dying.

To respond to the rapidly changing health care climate of the late 1970s, we created the Bon Secours Health System to serve better the communities in which we sponsored health care facilities. "The Mission of Bon Secours Health System is to bring compassion to health care and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor and the dying. As a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to wholeness as part of the healing ministry of Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church."Inspired by the healing ministry of Jesus and the charism of the Sisters of Bon Secours 19,000 co-workers in nine states are committed to making a difference in the lives of individuals in need. Read on to learn more about the work of Bon Secours Health System and the communities that it serves.

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All of this work is done as a way of showing God’s love and compassion in action, helping people to uncover and understand the redemptive meaning of suffering and death, something that’s difficult to find in many medical institutions today.

What kind of roles do we play in healthcare?
When people think about the jobs women who choose to become sisters hold, several quickly spring to mind. Most people think of nurse and teacher, but what about physician, patient advocate, chair of the board of a health system, or nurse practitioner in a clinic for migrant workers?

We as Sisters of Bon Secours perform those jobs and many others in healthcare and social services every day.

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