Pro-Life Hospital Coming to Michigan!
Catholic Healthcare International to build pro-life hospital, medical school in Howell, MI based on Padre Pio’s vision.
It is great to have good news to share, and this from several sources. First an article by Martin Barillas published Oct-16 on CNA (Catholic News Agency) relating Bishop Boyea's announcement:
Boyea told a capacity crowd at dinner [October 5th] that the time is right for an authentically Catholic hospital in his diocese, which encompasses the state capital and much of southern Michigan. He said it will reflect the legacy of Padre Pio, who founded his Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza (Home for the Relief of Suffering) in Italy in the 1950s, and which was intended to be the first of many hospitals.
Earlier this year, nonprofit Catholic Healthcare International (CHI) signed a purchase agreement with Trinity Health, a national Catholic medical system, to buy a 140,000-square-foot hospital in Howell, Michigan, a rural small town. CHI Founder Jere Palazzolo told CNA the development comes as the culture of death increasingly endangers human life. The project’s episcopal advisers are Cardinal Raymond Burke and Boyea. Financing and donors are still being sought to complete the purchase.
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When completed, the project is slated to house a medical school, embryo orphanage, outpatient and rehabilitative services, birthing unit, family medicine practice, and the Terri Schiavo Home for the Brain Injured. ... It aims to become operational in 2026.1
Who is Padre Pio, you wonder, and what is Catholic Healthcare International?
In 1956, Saint Padre Pio felt called to create a chain of hospitals around the world to care for the sick and suffering in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. From small donations, he developed the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, which has grown into a major research medical center now administered by the Vatican...2
“The Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza should therefore be the first link in a great chain. It should be the model for many other, innumerable Casa’s with the same name and above all the same spirit, which must bring love to all of humanity.”3 said Dr. Guglielmo Sangguinetti, the first Director of Implementation in the 1950’s.
Catholic Healthcare International was incorporated in July 2004 on an inspiration from Padre Pio to be the vehicle to implement this vision. After several years of prayer, discernment, preparation and foundational work, a formal Collaboration Agreement was signed on October 1st, 2009 with the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza to begin the work of duplicating Homes for the Relief of Suffering around the world.4
In 2009, CHI signed an agreement with the Casa in Italy to recreate the facility in the Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, under the guidance of Bishop Earl Boyea. Cardinal Raymond Burke, CHI’s Episcopal Advisor, emphasized the need to also develop a truly faithful Catholic medical school to provide a supply of physicians who stand for the life and the dignity of every human person, created in the likeness and image of God, from conception to natural death.
To that end, CHI is acquiring a 140,000-square-foot hospital in Howell, Michigan, and has applied for and is seeking accreditation for the Saint Padre Pio Institute for the Relief of Suffering, School of Osteopathic Medicine (proposed).5
Check out the source articles to read more about it and especially why this hospital and medical school is so desperately needed now.
CNA ‘Time is right’ for Catholic hospital and medical school project in Michigan, bishop says.
LSN: Catholic healthcare group to build pro-life hospital in Michigan based on Padre Pio’s vision.
St. Pio Medical Center (CHI-usa): Duplicating Padre Pio’s Hospital Model.
[ https://www.chi-usa.com/chi-initiatives/duplicating-padre-pios-hospital-model/ ]
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From the LSN article (see 2nd footnote).