CHI St. Luke's Health
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Formerly called
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St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital |
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| Nonprofit organization | |
| Founded | 1954 |
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Area served
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Houston, Texas |
| Website | http://www.chistlukeshealth.org/ |
CHI St. Luke's Health is a health system located in the Greater Houston area. It is a part of one of the largest health systems and the second largest faith-based health system in the United States, Catholic Health Initiatives. CHI St. Luke's Health's facilities have been recognized as some of the best in the nation.
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital was founded by the Episcopal Diocese of Texas in 1954 and was one of the first hospitals established in the Texas Medical Center. In 1962, Denton A. Cooley founded the Texas Heart Institute, which became affiliated with St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital. It was there that Denton A. Cooley performed the first successful heart transplantation in the United States in 1968 and the first artificial heart implantation in the world in 1969.
In 1990, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital's 26-story O'Quinn Medical Tower was constructed and has since become a Texas Medical Center icon. In 1997, the Episcopal Diocese of Texas established the St. Luke's Episcopal Health System. It established its first freestanding emergency center in 2000 and opened two more in subsequent years. St. Luke's continued to expand as it opened a hospital in The Woodlands, Texas, in 2003. A year later, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital entered into an affiliation agreement with Baylor College of Medicine. St. Luke's then proceeded to open a hospital in Sugar Land, Texas, in 2008, another in The Woodlands in 2009, and two more in Northwest Houston and East Houston in 2010.
In 2013, St. Luke's Episcopal Health System announced the transfer of its hospitals to Catholic Health Initiatives, a national nonprofit, and changed its name to CHI St. Luke's Health. CHI St. Luke's Health has continued to expand, opening its seventh hospital campus in January 2016.
St. Luke's began its partnership with Baylor College of Medicine in 1961 to serve as a teaching hospital for its medical students.
A joint venture between CHI St. Luke’s Health and Baylor College of Medicine established CHI St. Luke’s Health–Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, which has been nationally recognized and ranked by U.S. News & World Report and other entities.
Led by world-renowned expert and surgeon Dr. David J. Sugarbaker, the collaboration introduced the first comprehensive, multi-specialty Lung Institute in Texas, based at CHI St. Luke’s Health–Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center. The Lung Institute’s Mesothelioma Treatment Center continues to attract patients from all over the world.
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