City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0140R

• File #: 09-0140R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Bon Secours Baltimore Health Systems
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 7/13/2009
• In control: City Council
• Title: Informational Hearing - Bon Secours Baltimore Health Systems FOR the purpose of inviting the CEO of Bon Secours Baltimore Health Systems to share with the City Council the current operational and fiscal status of the health and social services corporation; and the forecast for the future continuation of delivery of health care and human services to the some of the most needy residents of Baltimore City.
• Sponsors: Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Mary Pat Clarke, Sharon Green Middleton, Bill Henry, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, James B. Kraft, President Young, Agnes Welch, Warren Branch, Edward Reisinger, William H. Cole, IV, Helen L. Holton, Belinda Conaway
• Indexes: Health, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/6/2010	0	The City Council	Reassigned
7/16/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
7/16/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
7/13/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
7/13/2009	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: President Rawlings-Blake

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Bon Secours Baltimore Health Systems

FOR the purpose of inviting the CEO of Bon Secours Baltimore Health Systems to share with the City Council the current operational and fiscal status of the health and social services corporation; and the forecast for the future continuation of delivery of health care and human services to the some of the most needy residents of Baltimore City.
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The CEO’s message is: “Bon Secours Baltimore Health System is part of a national health corporation sponsored by Bon Secours Ministries that strives to fulfill the mission of the sisters of Bon Secours to help people and communities to health and wholeness by providing compassionate, quality healthcare and being “good help” to all in need in West Baltimore, with special concern for the poor and dying. Our mission empowers us to embrace physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals and communities as we help them achieve wholeness.”

The historic Bon Secours Hospital, which has 142 acute care beds, has deep roots in West Baltimore in a community whose institutions have vanished – Bon Secours took over West Baltimore’s failing Liberty Medical Center in 1996. Liberty Medical Center was the outgrowth of the former Provident Hospital, an institution in Baltimore and once the only Baltimore...