About St. Mary's Health Care System


About Us

At St. Mary’s, we are dedicated to our mission to be a compassionate and transforming healing presence in the communities we serve.

St. Mary’s is much more than a hospital. We are a health care ministry that includes three hospitals, numerous physician practices, our region’s first medical residency program, one of the state’s pioneering home health care/hospice services, a retirement community, extensive outpatient services, and much more. We are proud to be part of Trinity Health, one of the nation’s largest Catholic healthcare organizations. Partnering with Trinity Health, we are able to bring the strength of a national healthcare ministry to our communities. Our partnership also enables St. Mary’s to be on the leading edge of developing best practices.

In the tradition of our sponsors, Catholic Health Ministries, we are committed to bringing high-quality, evidence-based health care services to you and your family. As a not-for-profit Catholic health care system, we invest our resources back into our community. We strive continually to enhance our facilities and services to better meet your needs and those of everyone we serve.

St. Mary’s is recognized as a national leader in quality and patient satisfaction, but we know there is no such thing as “good enough”. Day and night, our dedicated physicians and staff work to further improve our quality of care. This effort grows from our faith, which inspires us to be committed to the sacredness of human life and the dignity of each person we serve. We pledge to strive for ever higher levels of compassion and excellence in all we do, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

For more than 116 years, it has been St. Mary’s honor and privilege to serve the families, businesses, and communities of Northeast Georgia. Thank you for choosing St. Mary’s as your preferred healthcare partner, for life. We are here to serve you. Exceptional care for life.

We, St. Mary’s Health Care System and Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

As a mission-driven, innovative health organization, we will become the national leader in improving the health of our communities and each person we serve. We will be the most trusted health partner for life.

To connect with our mission and to care for ourselves, our fellow colleagues and those we serve, we live these five core values.

  • Reverence 
    We honor the sacredness and dignity of every person.
  • Commitment to Those Experiencing Poverty 
    We stand with and serve those who are experiencing poverty, especially the most vulnerable.
  • Safety 
    We embrace a culture that prevents harm and nurtures a healing, safe environment for all.
  • Justice 
    We foster right relationships to promote the common good, including the sustainability of Earth.
  • Stewardship 
    We honor our heritage and hold ourselves accountable for the human, financial and natural resources entrusted to our care.
  • Integrity 
    We are faithful to who we say we are.

Trinity Health

St. Mary’s is proud to be a Regional Health Ministry in Trinity Health. Trinity Health is one of the nation’s largest Catholic health care systems, serving people multiple states from coast to coast with 88 hospitals.

Being a part of a large national system gives us access to resources and ideas across the broad spectrum of care, making it easier for us to advance clinical quality in significant ways at the local level and providing economies of scale that reduce our costs. It also allows us to contribute our knowledge and best practices to make care better in the 25 states where Trinity Health operates.

Visit the Trinity Health website for more information, www.trinity-health.org