St. Luke’s Health to adopt CommonSpirit Health name

St. Luke’s Health will add its parent company to its name in October as it expands its partnership with Baylor College of Medicine, officials announced in an Aug. 17 news release.

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The name addition aims to unite and emphasize the shared values between St. Luke’s Health and CommonSpirit Health, a faith-based healthcare provider that serves as a parent company for over 2,300 care sites in the nation, according to the release. The name change also aims to bridge the local and national networks.

New facility names include:

• CommonSpirit - Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center - Bertner Campus
• CommonSpirit - Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center - McNair Campus
• CommonSpirit - St. Luke's Hospital - Brazosport
• CommonSpirit - St. Luke's Hospital - Lakeside
• CommonSpirit - St. Luke's Hospital - Pasadena
• CommonSpirit - St. Luke's Hospital - Springwoods Village
• CommonSpirit - St. Luke's Hospital - Sugar Land
• CommonSpirit - St. Luke's Hospital - The Woodlands
• CommonSpirit - St. Luke's Hospital - Vintage
• CommonSpirit Medical Group
• CommonSpirit - St. Luke’s Hospital - Emergency Care

Although the signs and names will change, the care teams and mission in each facility will remain, per the news release.

Zooming out

Over the past year, Baylor College of Medicine and St. Luke’s Health have also expanded their partnership to invite more Baylor specialists to join St. Luke’s. With the name change, the Baylor College of Medicine logo will be added to all facilities’ logos along with the CommonSpirit name, said Scott Packard, the Houston market communications director for St. Luke's Health.

Previously, the Baylor College of Medicine logo only displayed in the logo of the CommonSpirit - Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, which is a teaching and research hospital that the two have jointly owned since 2014.

Baylor College of Medicine and St. Luke’s started their partnership in 1961, according to its website.

What they’re saying

Augusto "Gus" Sepulveda, MD, chief medical officer of the Houston market of CommonSpirit, said St. Luke’s Health has been home to impactful healthcare advances in large part to the brand’s collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine.

“This expanded relationship and the introduction of the CommonSpirit name represents an evolution,” Sepulveda said in the news release. “Our mission remains the same and we are committed to providing compassionate, high-quality care and serving patients who have placed their trust in us.”