CHI Health


CHI Health is a non-profit, faith-based health organization with headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. CHI Health comprises 14 acute care hospitals, five of which are located in the Omaha metro area. CHI is derived from the hospital's parent NPO, Catholic Health Initiatives.

History

Alegent Health was created in 1996, resulting from a long-standing partnership between the Lutheran Immanuel Medical Center and the Catholic Bergan Mercy Medical Center under the Community Health Vision. Both boards unanimously approved the union. The campuses joined together along with Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa and two regional health partners, Corning and Schuyler, as one health care system while maintaining their own identities and religious affiliations. In 1997, Midlands Hospital joined Alegent Health.

Mergers and acquisitions

In 2012, Alegent acquired Creighton University Medical Center and was renamed Alegent Creighton Health. Also in 2012, Immanuel left the Alegent partnership to focus on its senior programs and Alegent became solely sponsored by Catholic Health Initiatives. In 2014, Alegent Creighton Health merged with CHI Nebraska and was renamed CHI Health.
In February 2019, parent company CHI merged with Dignity Health, forming CommonSpirit Health, the second-largest nonprofit hospital chain in the United States.

Hospitals