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Catholic Health East Appoints New Member to Hope Ministries

September 19, 2007

Stanley T. Urban

NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA – Catholic Health East (CHE), one of the nation's leading Catholic health care systems, announced the recent appointment of Stanley T. Urban as the newest member of Hope Ministries, a Public Juridic Person within Catholic Health East. A Public Juridic Person is a canonically established entity comprised of lay and religious persons approved by the Vatican to sponsor ministries in the name of the church.

"We are thrilled to have Stan Urban join us as the newest Member of Hope Ministries," said Sr. Juliana Casey, IHM, executive vice president, Mission Integration at CHE. "Stan's long time service for CHE and with other leading Catholic health systems provides him with a unique perspective as well as an intimate knowledge of the challenges that face faith-based health care institutions. He will be a genuine asset to Hope Ministries as it continues its Mission of extending and strengthening our healing ministry to those in need."

Urban brings over 30 years of religious health care experience to Hope Ministries. He recently retired as executive vice president and chief administrative officer of CHE, where he was a member of the CHE senior management team. Before joining CHE in 1997, he served five years as president and CEO of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word Health System in Houston, TX. He has also held senior executive positions with Franciscan Health System, Aston, PA and Sisters of Providence Health System in Portland, OR. He has 12 years leadership experience in university teaching hospitals.

In addition, Urban has served on a variety of national and regional boards, including service as board chairperson of the Memorial Sisters of Charity Health Network, based in southeast Texas, and as a member of the board of directors of Carondelet Health System in St. Louis, MO. He also has served on the advisory committee of the Catholic Health Association's Center for Leadership Excellence.

Urban earned a B.S. from Boston College in Massachusetts and an M.B.A. from Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH.

Hope Ministries was established in 2001 to serve as a sponsor for potential new, unsponsored organzations that might join Catholic Health East and/or sponsor those ministries that could no longer be appropriately sponsored by an existing sponsor. It currently sponsors six organizations: Global Health Ministry, Newtown Square, PA; Nazareth Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; St. Agnes Continuing Care Center, Philadelphia, PA; St. Francis Hospital, Wilmington, DE; St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton, NJ; and St. Mary Medical Center, Langhorne, PA.

Catholic Health East is a multi-institutional Catholic health system, which is co-sponsored by 12 religious congregations and Hope Ministries, a Public Juridic Person within Catholic Health East. Based in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, the System provides the means to ensure the continuation of the Catholic identity and operational strength of the Sponsors' health ministries, which are located within 11 eastern states from Maine to Florida. The System includes acute care hospitals, free-standing and hospital-based skilled nursing facilities, residential facilities, free-standing behavioral health and rehabilitation facilities, and numerous ambulatory and community based health services. Catholic Health East facilities employ approximately 50,000 full time employees as partners in ministry.

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