Trinity Mother Frances Health System

Trinity Mother Frances Health System

Type	Not-for-profit corporation
Industry	Health care
Founded	1937 (when Mother Frances Hospital opened) 1995 (when Mother Frances Hospital merged with Trinity Clinic)
Headquarters	Tyler, Texas
Employees	3,800+
Website	www.tmfhs.org

Trinity Mother Frances Health System is a non-profit regional health care provider headquartered in Tyler, Texas that operates two hospitals and twenty regional health clinics in north-central and northeast Texas.

History

Mother Frances Hospital

In the early 1930s, the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth saw the need for an area hospital in Tyler, Texas. The hospital was built cooperatively between the Sisters, the City of Tyler, and some local medical professionals. The hospital was named in honor of Frances Siedliska, the founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.^[1]

Mother Frances Hospital opened its doors on March 18, 1937, one day before its scheduled opening and elaborate dedication on March 19th, due to an explosion in nearby New London.^[2]

Several years later, in 1948, the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth completed the purchase of the hospital from the City of Tyler and in October 1965, Mother Frances Week is celebrated in Tyler, dedicating a new 140,000-square-foot (13,000 m²) wing. This $4.5 million wing added 110 new patient beds and a new cafeteria to the hospital.^[3]

Trinity Clinic

Drs. William Howard Bryant and Sidney W. Bradford founded the Bryant Clinic in 1934. The clinic was, along with the new Mother Frances Hospital, among the first responders to the New London School Explosion.^[1]

In 1948, the clinic was renamed to the Medical and Surgical Clinic and later, with the addition of two other Tyler-area medical practices, became Trinity Clinic.^[1]

Merger

In 1995, Mother Frances Hospital and Trinity Clinic merged, creating Trinity Mother Frances Health System, one of the country's first integrated health care systems.^[1]

Facilities

Hospitals

The system's flagship hospital, Mother Frances Hospital - Tyler, is a 390 bed acute care facility located in Tyler, Texas. The facility has a Level II Trauma Center and accredited Chest Pain Center.^[4] In addition the system operates another hospital in nearby Jacksonville.

Clinics

The system also operates 16 standalone clinics (under the name Trinity Clinic) and four urgent care clinics (under the name DirectCARE) in the following cities or communities:

Athens Canton (*) Chandler Emory Henderson Holly Lake Jacksonville Kilgore

Lake Palestine (*) Lindale (*) Mineola Quitman Sulphur Springs Tyler (*) Whitehouse Winnsboro

(*)Both a Trinity Clinic and a DirectCARE facility are located in this area.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Trinity Mother Frances - History"
2. ^ "Handbook of Texas Online"
3. ^ "Trinity Mother Frances - History Wall"
4. ^ "Mother Frances Hospital - Tyler"