Company Profile
Our Lady of Lourdes
Company Overview
Lourdes recognizes the importance of serving its community and participating in activities that match the community's needs. In this service, it believes that the medical staff is a valued partner. Since it holds these things to be important, Lourdes will collaborate with other health entities and planning agencies to help provide essential services, particularly in primary and secondary health care and cancer services to its community.
Company History
In 1925, concerned citizens purchased the Corbett Mansion on Riverside Drive (now the site of Lourdes' main campus) to become a 25-bed hospital. Bishop Daniel Curley of Syracuse asked the Daughters of Charity, pioneers in Catholic health and hospital service, to come to Binghamton to manage the new hospital.
Effective November 1, 1999, the Daughters of Charity National Health System (DCNHS) and the Sisters of St. Joseph Health System (SSJHS) merged into a co-sponsored Catholic health ministry known as Ascension Health. In 2002, Ascension Health was enhanced with the addition of the hospitals and related health facilities of Carondelet Health System, sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. In 2012, Alexian Brothers Health System joined Ascension Health. In 2013, the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother also joined when the three regional health systems that comprised its Marian Health System joined Ascension Health.