   HistoryQueensCare carries on the commitment and tradition of compassionate, whole-person care, first established by the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart in the early 1900s at Queens of Angels Hospital, and continued at Queen of Angels-Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. QueensCare’s current operations were developed as a result of the sale of Queen of Angels-Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in 1998 to a for-profit corporation. The endowment, created from the proceeds of the sale and accumulated earnings of the hospital prior to the sale, is approximately $400 million. By law, the California Attorney General was responsible for overseeing the sale transaction and for governing the use of the proceeds of the sale.
Founders, J.J. Brandlin and Arthur W. Barron managed the health care institutions of the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart for many years: St. Joseph's Hospital in San Francisco, Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles and the Franciscan Clinics in Los Angeles. The two men were dedicated to the Sisters’ mission to provide quality health care to the poor. In forming the new non-profit from the sale of Queen of Angels-Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, Arthur Barron and J.J. Brandlin, envisioned a comprehensive system of healthcare that delivers individualized care to the working poor of Los Angeles. They realized that providing a healthcare home for the working poor required re-thinking the western concept of healthcare, where people come to an institution to see a doctor. Their vision of providing care begins at a variety of trusted portals familiar to the individual in the community. This has proven to be one of the most effective strategies of reaching out to the highly immigrant, working poor population of Los Angeles. In addition to implementing this grassroots outreach approach, the founders knew that any healthcare home would be incomplete without a spiritual dimension. To insure that the faith needs of the patients would be met, the Pastoral Care Program was established. Thus, all aspects of holistic healthcare - body, mind and spirit - are addressed at QueensCare. Today QueensCare and its programs have received many awards and accolades for the pioneering work, begun by Mr. Barron and Mr. Brandlin, which provides high quality healthcare to those who would likely otherwise go without.
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