2009

Premier Award for Quality (AFQ), designating St. Vincent Charity Hospital in the top 1 percent of hospitals nationwide for quality and operational efficiency. 

2006

First Chest Pain Center in Stark County certified to perform angioplasty 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

2004

First hospital in Northeast Ohio to perform minimally invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery.

2003

The first accredited Chest Pain Center in the United States

2006

First program in South Carolina dedicated exclusively to screening women for risk factors of cardiac disease.

2005

First hospital in central South Carolina to perform alcohol septal ablation therapy to treat thickening and stiffening of the heart muscle.

1974

Providence Heart Institute, South Carolina’s leading cardiovascular center, performs more heart procedures than any other medical team in the state as it has every year since its establishment in 1974.

2006

First accredited hospital-based Chest Pain Center in Cuyahoga County.

1982

First hospital in Northeast Ohio to provide home-like maternity suites for labor, delivery, recovery and post-partum care.

2006

The Center for Bariatric Surgery named an American Society for Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence.

2006

Sr. Ignatia Gavin, CSA, who worked closely with Dr. Bob Smith, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous is honored by the City of Cleveland with the designation of "Sr. Ignatia Way" as the secondary name for East 22nd Street, the site of St. Vincent Charity Hospital where she established one of the first hospital-based treatment centers for alcoholism.

1994

First hospital in Ohio to make blood conservation the standard of care for all patients through its bloodless medicine program.

1956

The first successful open heart surgery in the Midwest was performed at St. Vincent Charity Hospital using a heart-lung machine produced by a St. Vincent Charity cardiac surgeon and his colleague.

1952

Rosary Hall opens - one of the first hospital-based treatment centers for alcoholism in the U.S.

1996

First organization in the country to establish and sponsor a total of three healthcare conversion foundations to address root causes of poverty.

1973

Saint Ann Foundation opens as the first healthcare conversion foundation in the U.S. and the first foundation sponsored by a Catholic religious congregation.

2000

The first facility offering educational opportunities and supports to Stark County child care professionals in all settings, the Early Childhood Resource Center, opens as an outgrowth of the Quality Child Care Initiative.

1998

First long-term initiative in Stark County dedicated to improving early education and child care begins.  Outcomes include increasing the number of nationally accredited child care centers in Stark County from one to nearly 50.

2007

Credited with bringing the first models of permanent supportive housing (Emerald Commons and others) to northeast Ohio to reduce chronic homelessness through the establishment and convening of the Housing First collaboration.

 

One of the first community-wide initiatives to improve health literacy and reduce health disparities begins.

2002

The South Carolina Fatherhood Policy Project Office, an outgrowth of the Father Engagement Initiative, opens to address policies, practices and attitudes that are barriers for fathers and their children.

1997

Statewide Father Engagement Initiative begins to strengthen the relationship of fathers with their children and families. Outcomes include the establishment of seven fatherhood organizations in 13 sites across South Carolina.

1993

First state-of-the art nursing care facility for retired members of religious congregations, diocesan clergy and lay men and women opens through $7.5 million renovation of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine motherhouse.

2006

First statewide network providing free health services to children from low-income families earns Catholic Hospital Association Achievement Citation and the American Hospital Association NOVA Award.

2000

Unique transitional housing facility opens for homeless men in need of a place for recovery from illness and medical treatment.

2006

Credited with establishing the first state-funded program offering rehabilitation through fatherhood programs versus incarceration for failure to pay child support, Alternatives to Incarceration.

2002

First statewide organization opens to provide traditional and innovative strategies to support father engagement in the lives of their children.