Providence Health Center 

DePaul Center

Providence Home Care

Providence Park 

   Providence Foundation

       Providence Health Alliance 

Providence Sanitorium in
the early 1900s.

providing a full range of care, including: outpatient care, inpatient care, emergency services, long-term care, mental health care, chemical dependency treatment, child care and senior adult care services and more.

Providence is a member of (and sponsored by) Ascension Health, a national system cosponsored by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Nazareth, Michigan and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet. The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, who originally founded Providence, have a long and praiseworthy history of service to society. St. Vincent and St. Louise de Marillac founded the order of religious women in Paris France in the year 1633. The American community of Daughters was founded in 1809 by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, and was united with St. Vincent's community in 1850.

Providence Health Center is Waco's first and newest hospital--founded in 1905 at the request of local businessmen who saw the need for a hospital in Waco. The businessmen approached the Daughters of Charity about sponsorship of a hospital, to which the Daughters agreed--and a hospital was born, opening its doors officially in January 1905. While searching for funding for the new Waco hospital, a Daughter of Charity remarked, "We'll let Providence provide;" thus giving the hospital its name. Providence did indeed provide--and continues to do so today. Providence relocated to its current site in 1989.