Trinity Home Health Services Jobs and Profile

In Trinity Health, we are called to be innovative in improving health care delivery, to help restore well-being, to relieve and prevent suffering, and to be a community of persons in service to others.

We are the people of Catholic health care, committed to foster healing, act with compassion, and promote wellness for all persons and communities, with special attention to our neighbors who are poor, underserved and most vulnerable.

By our service, we strive to transform hurt into hope.

Created by the consolidation of Holy Cross Health System and Mercy Health Services, Trinity Health blends and carries on two rich traditions of serving persons in need.

Holy Cross Health System has its roots in the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, founded in 1841 by Father Basil Anthony Moreau.

During the Civil War, Holy Cross Sisters helped staff military hospitals, caring for the wounded of both the North and the South. Over the next 100 years, the Sisters opened hospitals and other healthcare facilities throughout the country, responding to the needs of the times.

In 1979, Holy Cross Health System was formed to bring unity as well as economic and professional solidarity to the healthcare organizations sponsored by the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross.

From the mid 19 th century to the present, the Holy Cross tradition has been one of meeting community needs and accepting inherent risks—of changing and adapting but always being centered in reading the signs of the times and responding in faith and hope and with compassion.

In 1831, Catherine McAuley founded the Sisters of Mercy in Dublin, Ireland, to follow Christ in his compassion for suffering people. Over the next 10 years, she and her Sisters established 14 foundations to serve the poor, the sick and the uneducated throughout Ireland and England.

After Catherine's death in 1841, the Sisters of Mercy took their mission to America where they responded to others’ needs and suffering by founding hospitals, schools and orphanages, and establishing homes for women and girls at risk.

The Sisters of Mercy Regional Community of Detroit traces its roots to convents, schools and hospitals founded as early as the 1860s and ‘70s in Iowa and Michigan. In 1976, the Sisters created a health system, eventually called Mercy Health Services, to link and better support their hospitals.

Through all these changes, the words of Catherine McAuley remain true and encouraging: "Put your whole trust in God; he will never see you want for the means to do his work."

Preferred Culture Characteristics

Mission Centered

The Catholic identity of Trinity Health and the mission and values that arise from it permeate the organization's culture. A comprehensive understanding and commitment to the mission guides its care for patients, relations with colleagues, operational and financial management, and engagement with communities. All who work in or represent Trinity Health strive to carry out the mission. Leaders assure that the mission is integrated into all decision-making. Commitment to corporate and personal integrity is evident in policies and behaviors. Trinity Health honors the heritage of its founders and acts in harmony with the Church. Employees appreciate the spiritual aspect of Trinity Health's work and the organization respects their spirituality. Trinity Health looks for opportunities to partner with Catholic health and social services organizations and others who share its values.

Customer Focused

Trinity Health is a learning organization with a bias for action. It focuses on improving the compassion and quality of its patient care and service by understanding their needs, sharing, and adopting best practices and measuring outcomes. The system and its members are flexible and agile in meeting the challenges inherent in health care. To this end, Trinity Health develops its leaders - sponsors, board members, managers, and clinicians - improving their skills and competencies. People in Trinity Health try different ways of operating and advancing the mission without fear of making mistakes. Employees are empowered to take action to meet or exceed customer expectations. Trinity Health strives to be an employer of choice.

Interdependence

Relationships of governance and management, system and member organization, and between member organizations are interdependent. Each respects the needs and requirements of the other in their work. These groups understand that dynamic tension between constituencies is to be expected and helpful. They focus their decision-making on enhancing the common good. Decisions are made through well-understood processes with appropriate speed, efficiency, and participation by representative stakeholders. Each decision is made at the place in the organization where the necessary knowledge and experience reside. Interdependence is a key goal when Trinity Health seeks partnerships to grow and fulfill the mission.

Open Communications

A multi-directional communication process serves everyone in Trinity Health. Information is available and accessible on a timely basis. Everyone takes responsibility to stay informed, provide feedback, and share opinions. People communicate openly and directly. Active listening and candid speaking are skills used and valued by all. These practices promote norms of freely exchanging ideas in the interest of finding better ways to accomplish goals and sharing different points of view to arrive at constructive agreement.

Socially Responsible

Trinity Health will assess, respond to, and account for meeting the needs of the communities it serves. To do this it joins with people from those communities, including representatives of those who are poor and underserved. The organization engages in social analysis and advocacy for the advancement of a social justice agenda that includes ecological concerns. Trinity Health values diversity in hiring and practices are established to ensure that the benefits of diversity are realized throughout the organization.