# Bon Secours (Virginia & South Carolina)

Bon Secours is part of Bon Secours Mercy Health, Bon Secours operates hospitals and healthcare facilities in Virginia and South Carolina.
Bon Secours operates three hospitals and medical centers and one outpatient facility in Hampton Roads, and the Bon Secours Richmond Health System offers a network of seven acute hospitals, primary and specialty care practices, ambulatory care sites and continuing care facilities across a 24-locality region.
On September 1, 2018, Bon Secours and Mercy Health combined to become the United States' fifth largest Catholic health care ministry and one of the nation's 20 largest health care systems. The two systems and their hospitals retained their pre-merger names and branding. The full name of the combined health system is Bon Secours Mercy Health. Bon Secours Mercy Health headquarters are co-located with Mercy Health in Cincinnati, Ohio.

## Background

The Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours was established in 1824 in Paris, France. Their particular apostolate was providing in-home care for the sick and dying. In 1881, the sisters came to Baltimore at the request of James Cardinal Gibbons. They founded their first hospital in Baltimore in 1919. By 1980, they had founded or managed several more. Bon Secours was established in 1983 to coordinate the administration and management of the various healthcare facilities.
Throughout the 1980s, the Bon Secours grew rapidly, opening a number of hospitals, community health clinics, nursing care facilities for the elderly, alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation centers, affordable housing units, and medical office facilities in Maryland, Virginia, Florida, and Michigan in response to the needs of the communities they served.

## Hospitals
### South Carolina

* Bon Secours St. Francis Downtown Hospital, Greenville Official site: Bon Secours St. Francis Downtown Hospital
* Bon Secours St. Francis Eastside Hospital, Greenville

### Virginia

* Bon Secours Harbour View Medical Center, Suffolk. Official Site: Bon Secours Harbour View Medical Center,
* Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital, Newport News. Official site: Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital
* Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center, Portsmouth. Official site: Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center
* Bon Secours Maryview Behavioral Medicine Center, Portsmouth
* Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center, Mechanicsville. Official site: Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center
* Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center, Midlothian. Official site: Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center
* Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond. Official site: Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital
* Bon Secours Richmond Community Hospital, Richmond. Official site: Bon Secours Richmond Community Hospital
* Bon Secours Southside Medical Center, Petersburg. Official site: Bon Secours Southside Medical Center
* Bon Secours Southampton Medical Center,Franklin. Official site: Bon Secours Southampton Medical Center

## Former facilities
### Kentucky

* Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital, Ashland

### Maryland

* Grace Medical Center, Baltimore – known as Bon Secours Hospital from 1919 until its sale in 2019

### Massachusetts

* Bon Secours Hospital, Methuen – opened in 1950, sold to Caritas Christi Health Care in 1988, and renamed Holy Family Hospital

### Michigan

* Bon Secours Grosse Pointe – sold in the early 2000s to Beaumont Health System

### Pennsylvania

* Bon Secours-Holy Family Hospital, Altoona – merged into Altoona Regional Health System in 2004, closed 2012

### Virginia

* Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center closed in 2021. Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center, Norfolk