The Sisters of the Holy Cross opened the original Mount Carmel Hospital in Columbus in 1886.

[1] The company employs over 8,200 staff and 1,920 physicians in their outpatient facilities and four hospitals.

[citation needed] Mount Carmel East opened in 1972 near Reynoldsburg.

[2] Mount Carmel also operates the Medicare Advantage plan MediGold.

The system is the second largest member of its parent company, Trinity Health.