Ontario is a 49-bed, acute care hospital, serving Ontario and the surrounding communities in eastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho. Holy Rosary is part of Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the largest not-for-profit health care systems in the country, spanning 24 states and more than 70 rural and urban communities and encompassing more than 60 hospitals and more than 50 long-term care facilities.
CHI is guided by its mission to bring new life, energy and viability to the healing ministry of the church and create healthier communities.
As a progressive health care provider, Holy Rosary Medical Center customizes its services to meet the needs of the patients and the community. We are actively involved in a wide range of community outreach programs and provide a variety of educational sessions to individuals of the surrounding communities.
From outpatient surgery to critical care services, Holy Rosary strives to provide the most advanced equipment and sophisticated systems for the treatment of our patients.
** Our Mission To Serve **
The mission of Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Ontario and Trinity Health is to serve together in the spirit of the Gospel, to heal body, mind and spirit, to improve the health of our communities and to steward resources entrusted to us.
** Vision **
Saint Alphonsus leadership is firmly engaged in exploring and developing solutions to meet the growing needs of the community and pressing challenges facing the region.
History Of Holy Rosary Medical Center
** HISTORY **
Ontario’s first hospital facility began with a small group of Dominican Sisters who used a tent outside their rented home as their office. The sisters, originally from the Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena arrived in Baker City, March 24, 1911. There they learned that the bishop wanted them to go to Ontario, where the Commercial Club had offered $10,000 toward the building of a hospital. Until that time, they had assumed they were expected to build and operate a school, which was their previous experience. The sisters departed for Ontario Tuesday, April 6, 1911. After arriving, they set to work raising money for the hospital; Mother Catherine hand-wrote 10,000 appeals for money while the other sisters folded and addressed the envelopes. Three of the sisters traveled to Pendleton to train at the Franciscan Sisters’ Hospital; during this time, the sister were using a tent outside their rented home as their office, but people who had heard of the sisters began bringing their ill to the tent for healing, and it became Ontario’s first hospital facility.
