Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth

Last updated

Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth
Roman Catholic affiliation
Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth (geograph 3306120).jpg
Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth
Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth
Geography
Location London, NW8, United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°31′58″N0°10′27″W / 51.53278°N 0.17417°W / 51.53278; -0.17417
Organisation
Care system Private
Funding Non-profit hospital
Type charitable hospital
Services
Emergency department Urgent care centre
Beds70+
History
Opened1856;168 years ago (1856)
Links
Website www.hje.org.uk
Lists Hospitals in the United Kingdom

The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in St John's Wood, London, England, is a Catholic charitable general hospital in north London.

Contents

History and operations

The hospital was founded in 1856 with a Roman Catholic affiliation and is a registered charity. [1] It was founded as the "Hospital of St Elizabeth" by the Duke of Norfolk. Originally located in Great Ormond Street, London, by the end of the 19th century it had relocated to St John's Wood and adopted its present name. [2] The chapel which once stood on Great Ormond Street was moved brick-by-brick to its new site at the Hospital in St John's Wood. [3]

At its founding, the hospital was entrusted to the care of the Sisters of Mercy, whose stewardship would continue for many decades to come; [2] [4] more recently, however, the Sisters of Mercy have withdrawn from the management of the hospital, and it is now under lay control. [4] The hospital closed temporarily in 1866 due to a lack of funds, but later reopened. [5] The hospital was vital during the war effort of both the First and Second World Wars, being used by the War Office to treat injured military personnel. [3]

In 2009, it had an income of £42,671,000, making it one of the 150 largest charities in the United Kingdom. [6]

The hospital came to media attention in late 2007 when two board members resigned in protest after a new code of ethics, issued by Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, was accepted by the board. The new code "bars doctors from offering any service which conflicts with Catholic teaching" including "sex-change operations, providing contraception, abortion referrals and IVF treatment". [7] Later in 2008, the Cardinal ordered the resignation of the remaining board members and installed Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank as chairman. It was reported that Jacob Rees-Mogg had resigned but Aida Hersham did not. [8]

Facilities

The hospital's facilities include five operating theatres, and en-suite bathrooms in all of the patients' rooms. It is also the home to British Athletics, which established its medical headquarters at the Hospital to care for track and field athletes. [9] The hospital employs over 600 doctors. [9]

St Andrew's Ward, a new £2.1 million 10-bed stroke and medical ward, opened in July 2016, bringing the total number of beds to over 70. [10] [11]

St John's Hospice

The hospital's profits from private healthcare are used to run St John's Hospice, a hospice located within the hospital site where over 4,500 terminally ill patients are treated each year. [9]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sisters of Mercy</span> Religious congregation

The Sisters of Mercy is a religious institute for women in the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley. As of 2019, the institute has about 6200 sisters worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations. They also started many education and health care facilities around the world.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elizabeth Ann Seton</span> American Roman Catholic educator and saint (1774–1821)

Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was a Catholic religious sister in the United States and an educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. Born in New York and reared as an Episcopalian, she married and had five children with her husband William Seton. Two years after his death, she converted to Catholicism in 1805.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Great Ormond Street Hospital</span> Childrens hospital in London, England

Great Ormond Street Hospital is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cicely Saunders</span> English nurse, social worker, physician and writer

Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine, and opposing the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne</span> Hospital in Victoria, Australia

St Vincent's Hospital is a major hospital in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami</span> Roman Catholic archdiocese at Miami, Florida, United States

The Archdiocese of Miami is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in South Florida in the United States. It is the metropolitan see for the Ecclesiastical Province of Miami, which covers all of Florida.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers</span> Former healthcare system in New York, United States

Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers was a healthcare system in New York City, anchored by its flagship hospital, St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dignity Health</span> US not-for-profit healthcare system

Dignity Health is a California-based not-for-profit public-benefit corporation that operated hospitals and ancillary care facilities in three states. Dignity Health was the fifth-largest hospital system in the nation and the largest not-for-profit hospital provider in California.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. Mary's Medical Center (San Francisco)</span> Hospital in Stanyan St. San Francisco, CA

St. Mary's Medical Center (SMMC) is a hospital in San Francisco, California, US. It is currently operated by Dignity Health.

Mercy Health, formerly Catholic Health Partners, is a Catholic health care system with locations in Ohio and Kentucky. Cincinnati-based Mercy Health operates more than 250 healthcare organizations in Ohio and Kentucky. Mercy Health is the second largest health system in Ohio and the state's fourth-largest employer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catholic Health Initiatives</span> Faith-based hospital network in the United States

Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) was a national Catholic healthcare system, with headquarters in Englewood, Colorado. CHI was a nonprofit, faith-based health system formed, in 1996, through the consolidation of three Catholic health systems. It was one of the United States' largest healthcare systems. In February 2019, CHI merged with Dignity Health, forming CommonSpirit Health.

St. Elizabeth Health Services is a private Roman Catholic hospital in Baker City, Oregon, United States. It opened August 24, 1897 as St. Elizabeth Hospital. In 1912, a 115-bed facility was constructed at 2365 4th Street. The hospital moved to its current location on Pocahontas Road in April 1969.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mercy Hospital South</span> Hospital in Missouri, United States

Mercy Hospital South is the third-largest medical center in Greater St. Louis and an affiliate of Mercy. It is the only designated Level II Trauma Center in either South St. Louis County or Jefferson County. The hospital is located in the unincorporated community, Sappington, Missouri just south of I-270 along Tesson Ferry Road. It serves families in St. Louis County, St. Louis City, and Jefferson County, as well as Franklin County, St. Francois County, Ste. Genevieve County, and Washington County in Missouri, along with Monroe, Randolph and St. Clair counties in Illinois. In addition, Mercy Hospital South operates four urgent care facilities located in Arnold, Fenton, Kirkwood, and Lemay.

The Religious Sisters of Charity or Irish Sisters of Charity is a Roman Catholic religious institute founded by Mary Aikenhead in Ireland on 15 January 1815. Its motto is Caritas Christi urget nos.

The excommunication of Margaret McBride occurred with the sanctioning by the American religious sister Margaret McBride in November 2009 of an abortion at a Roman Catholic hospital, the St. Joseph's Hospital, in Phoenix. It was lifted in December 2011. Her decision and her subsequent excommunication aroused controversy in the areas of medical ethics and Catholic theology.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sisters of Charity of Australia</span> Congregation of religious sisters in Australia

The Sisters of Charity of Australia, or the Congregation of the Religious Sisters of Charity of Australia, is a congregation of religious sisters in the Catholic Church who have served the people of Australia since 1838. Sisters use the post-nominal initials of RSC.

The Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women, have served health, education and social service needs in the Diocese of Cleveland, Ohio, since 1851.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catholic Church and health care</span> Relationship between the Catholic Church and health care

The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of health care services in the world. It has around 18,000 clinics, 16,000 homes for the elderly and those with special needs, and 5,500 hospitals, with 65 percent of them located in developing countries. In 2010, the Church's Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers said that the Church manages 26% of the world's health care facilities. The Church's involvement in health care has ancient origins.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catholic Health</span>

Catholic Health is a non-profit comprehensive healthcare system formed in 1998 under religious sponsors in Western New York, United States. The organization provides health services through their hospitals, primary care centers, diagnostic and treatment centers, home care agencies, long-term care facilities and other programs. The system brings together more than 9,000 associates and 1,300 physicians to the Western New York market. Its Sisters of Charity Hospital in Buffalo, New York is a clinical affiliate of the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, one of the largest medical schools in the United States.

References

  1. "SS. John and Elizabeth Charity, registered charity no. 235822". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
  2. 1 2 "Medical News". British Medical Journal. 1 (4968): 697–698. 24 March 1956. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.4968.697. PMC   1979297 . In 1856, immediately after the Crimean War, the Hospital of St. Elizabeth was founded in Great Ormond Street, London, by the then Duke of Norfolk. The management was entrusted to the Sisters of Mercy, four of whom had served under Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. At the end of the century the hospital moved to its present site in St. John's Wood, having earlier changed its name to 'St. John and St Elizabeth'.
  3. 1 2 "History of the Hospital – Hospital Of St John & St Elizabeth" . Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  4. 1 2 O'Gorman, Kevin; Conti, Archbishop M. J.; McAlpine, D. (2008). "Hospitality in necessitudine: hospices, hostels and hospitals" (PDF). Hospitality Review. 10 (2): 28–35. ISSN   1464-9101 . Retrieved 14 May 2016. Until recently several religious orders provided hospitals in Britain though the last surviving Catholic hospital in London, established and served by the Sisters of Mercy, is now under lay control—the hospital of St John and St Elizabeth...
  5. The Medical Times and Gazette, J. & A. Churchill, 1866, p. 405, The Roman Catholic Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth, Great Ormond-street, which was founded in 1856, has just been closed by the unanimous resolution of the Committee. Want of funds was the ostensible reason for closing it.
  6. [ dead link ] Charities Direct: Top 500 Charities – Income Archived 16 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine . Charities Direct.
  7. Butt, Riazat (7 December 2007). "Directors quit Catholic hospital in ethics code row". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  8. Butt, Riazat (22 February 2008). "Archbishop orders Catholic hospital board to resign in ethics dispute". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  9. 1 2 3 hje.org.uk HJE Official website. Retrieved 20 July 2015
  10. "State Of The Art St Andrew's Ward Now Open – Hospital Of St John & St Elizabeth". 18 July 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  11. "Accommodation & Facilities – Hospital Of St John & St Elizabeth" . Retrieved 12 August 2016.