Trinity Health and Watson Caring Science Institute Collaborate to Enhance Patient Care

LIVONIA, MI (APRIL 23, 2021) – Trinity Health, one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation, announced its designation as a National Caring Science Affiliate System of the Watson Caring Science Institute (WCSI). The designation by WCSI, and its founder and director, Dr. Jean Watson, recognizes Trinity Health's exemplary integration of Caring Theory and leadership commitment to offer informed Caring Science practices to patients, communities and colleagues.

Gay Landstrom, R.N., Ph.D., Trinity Health’s senior vice president and chief nursing officer said, “We are honored to be recognized as a Watson Caring Science Institute National Caring Science Affiliate System. We know the difference Caring Science makes in reducing colleague burnout and creating a healing environment for people served by Trinity Health.”

To become a National Caring Science Affiliate System, Trinity Health has demonstrated to WCSI the authentically, deep-rooted and sustainable commitment to integrating Caring Science to transform and broaden whole person health and healing for patients, families, colleagues and communities.

WCSI is an international non-profit 501c3 organization that advances the philosophies, theories and practices of Human Caring/Caring Science. Focusing on research, education, praxis leadership and legacy, the institute aims to widen the development and understanding of Caring Science to inform the notion of quality care and healing environments. Currently there are more than 600 hospitals throughout the U.S. with many other partner health care systems globally using Watson’s Caring Science as their professional practice model.

About Trinity Health

Trinity Health, based in Livonia, Mich., is one of the largest multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery systems in the nation, serving diverse communities that include more than 30 million people across 22 states. Trinity Health includes 92 hospitals, as well as 100 continuing care locations that include PACE programs, senior living facilities, and home care and hospice services. Its continuing care programs provide nearly 2 million visits annually. With annual operating revenues of $18.8 billion and assets of $30.5 billion, the organization returns $1.3 billion to its communities annually in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs.

Trinity Health employs about 123,000 colleagues, including 6,800 employed physicians and clinicians. Committed to those who are poor and underserved in its communities, Trinity Health is known for its focus on the country's aging population. As a single, unified ministry, the organization is the innovator of Senior Emergency Departments, the largest not-for-profit provider of home health care services — ranked by number of visits — in the nation, as well as the nation’s leading provider of PACE (Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly) based on the number of available programs. For more information, visit www.trinity-health.org. You can also follow Trinity Health on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.