Covenant Health, Inc
Covenant Health, Inc
Why Covenant Health?
Covenant Health and our family of organizations have been healing and transforming lives for more than a century, and we continue to be unwavering in our Mission. In addition to providing an environment that is both challenging and rewarding, we offer:
- Mission driven organization and colleagues
- Numerous locations across New England and part of Pennsylvania, including some remote and hybrid positions
- Highly competitive salaries that are market-based and experience rated
- A comprehensive and flexible benefits program designed to protect and enhance your health and financial security
- Additional benefits like wellness programs, earned time off, extended sick leave, leaves of absence, family and medical leave
- Professional development and education opportunities
- A healthy and effective balance between your work and life responsibilities
Covenant Health and our family of organizations have been healing and transforming lives for more than a century, and we continue to be unwavering in our Mission. In addition to providing an environment that is both challenging and rewarding, we offer:
- Mission driven organization and colleagues
- Numerous locations across New England and part of Pennsylvania, including some remote and hybrid positions
- Highly competitive salaries that are market-based and experience rated
- A comprehensive and flexible benefits program designed to protect and enhance your health and financial security
- Additional benefits like wellness programs, earned time off, extended sick leave, leaves of absence, family and medical leave
- Professional development and education opportunities
- A healthy and effective balance between your work and life responsibilities
Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Company Information
Covenant Health is a family of innovative Catholic health care organizations with an enduring legacy of compassionate, high-quality care and deep roots in the communities they serve. Together, our hospitals, skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers, assisted living residences, and community-based health and elder care organizations form a regional health care delivery network covering New England and part of Pennsylvania.
Company History
Our History
Covenant Health’s foundation began with the vision of St. Marguerite d’Youville, who came to be known as the Mother of Universal Charity for her works of charity in l8th century Montreal. She founded the Sisters of Charity of Montreal in 1737.
The “Grey Nuns” were brave women who followed in St. Marguerite d’Youville’s footsteps by caring for the poor and disenfranchised. The Sisters were first called from Montreal to the United States in 1855 to care for the people of Toledo, Ohio, which was then known as the “Black Swamp.” They traveled by stagecoach to answer the call to serve. They also traveled to other parts of the United States to help those in need.
In the early 1980s, the Grey Nuns U.S. Provincial Leadership, Sr. June Ketterer and her Council, realized a need to create awareness about the Grey Nuns’ health care institutions in the United States and how to ensure their mission would continue into the future. The concept of forming a health care system emerged and in 1983, the Grey Nuns Health System was established to ensure the continuation of the Mission and philosophy within the Grey Nuns’ sponsored institutions.
With the increasing interest of other religious congregations in joining the Grey Nuns Health System, in 1986, the Grey Nuns Health System name changed to Covenant Health Systems. This new name represents, “God’s promise to us and our promise to the people we serve and also our willingness to relate to a broad spectrum of health care organizations, while re-emphasizing our commitment to the poor and those in need.” In the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) Covenant was understood to have two important characteristics: EMET and HESED, meaning fidelity and loving kindness, which expresses our commitment to each other and those whom we serve. The Covenant tag line: “Our Name is Our Promise” raises two questions for us: What do we promise when we say Covenant, and to whom do make a promise.
In 1995, the office of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (CICSAL) Vatican City, Rome granted a decree to the Covenant Board to become a Public Juridic Person (PJP) and to assume sponsorship and responsibility of Covenant, with several responsibilities (powers) remaining with the Grey Nuns. Being a Public Juridic Person authorizes Covenant to provide ministry in the name of the Church.
In 2007, Rome authorized the Grey Nuns to hand over these remaining Powers to the Covenant Board of Governors, thus the Covenant Board of Directors today is both the Civil Board and a self –perpetuating Public Juridic Person (Sponsor) according to Canon Law, the law of the Church. This was the first time in Church History that this right was extended to a Catholic Health Care System. The Civil Law name is Covenant Health, Inc.; the Canon law name is Covenant Health Systems
Covenant Health’s foundation began with the vision of St. Marguerite d’Youville, who came to be known as the Mother of Universal Charity for her works of charity in l8th century Montreal. She founded the Sisters of Charity of Montreal in 1737.
The “Grey Nuns” were brave women who followed in St. Marguerite d’Youville’s footsteps by caring for the poor and disenfranchised. The Sisters were first called from Montreal to the United States in 1855 to care for the people of Toledo, Ohio, which was then known as the “Black Swamp.” They traveled by stagecoach to answer the call to serve. They also traveled to other parts of the United States to help those in need.
In the early 1980s, the Grey Nuns U.S. Provincial Leadership, Sr. June Ketterer and her Council, realized a need to create awareness about the Grey Nuns’ health care institutions in the United States and how to ensure their mission would continue into the future. The concept of forming a health care system emerged and in 1983, the Grey Nuns Health System was established to ensure the continuation of the Mission and philosophy within the Grey Nuns’ sponsored institutions.
With the increasing interest of other religious congregations in joining the Grey Nuns Health System, in 1986, the Grey Nuns Health System name changed to Covenant Health Systems. This new name represents, “God’s promise to us and our promise to the people we serve and also our willingness to relate to a broad spectrum of health care organizations, while re-emphasizing our commitment to the poor and those in need.” In the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) Covenant was understood to have two important characteristics: EMET and HESED, meaning fidelity and loving kindness, which expresses our commitment to each other and those whom we serve. The Covenant tag line: “Our Name is Our Promise” raises two questions for us: What do we promise when we say Covenant, and to whom do make a promise.
In 1995, the office of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (CICSAL) Vatican City, Rome granted a decree to the Covenant Board to become a Public Juridic Person (PJP) and to assume sponsorship and responsibility of Covenant, with several responsibilities (powers) remaining with the Grey Nuns. Being a Public Juridic Person authorizes Covenant to provide ministry in the name of the Church.
In 2007, Rome authorized the Grey Nuns to hand over these remaining Powers to the Covenant Board of Governors, thus the Covenant Board of Directors today is both the Civil Board and a self –perpetuating Public Juridic Person (Sponsor) according to Canon Law, the law of the Church. This was the first time in Church History that this right was extended to a Catholic Health Care System. The Civil Law name is Covenant Health, Inc.; the Canon law name is Covenant Health Systems