The facility provides a nonprofit hospital and integrated health care system for Shawnee County and the northeast Kansas region.

When the regional center merged with the Cotton–O'Neill Clinic in 1996, the governing foundation adopted the new name Stormont–Vail HealthCare, and this was shortened in 2016 to Stormont Vail Health.

[1] In 2015, Stormont Vail was awarded an "A" grade for overall patient safety by the independent nonprofit PSO The Leapfrog Group.

[3][6][7] The bishop and his wife had deeded the land for the hospital, a full ten acres of property, to the people of Topeka for one dollar.

[3] Jane C. Stormont, the widow of a prominent doctor and "Topeka's best-known philanthropist",[11] donated the funds for the twenty-five-patient facility.

[13] A major expansion in 1983 added the Pozez Education Center which gave new space for a larger nursing school and other academic facilities, as well as the Ethel Stone Stauffer Health Sciences Library.