[6] Formed on February 1, 2019, the hospital network was created by the merger of two nonprofit hospital systems: San Francisco-based Dignity Health, and Catholic Health Initiatives of Colorado.

[7] Dignity Health was founded in 1986 as Catholic Healthcare West, when the Sisters of Mercy Burlingame Regional Community and the Sisters of Mercy Auburn Regional Community merged their healthcare ministries into one organization.

[11][12] Lloyd H. Dean and Kevin E. Lofton served as joint CEOs for the health system from its founding, in early 2019.

[13] Lofton retired at the end of June 2020, leaving Dean as sole CEO.

[14] In 2022, Dean retired and was succeeded as CEO by Wright L. Lassiter III, previously of Henry Ford Health.