One of the Berger Commission recommendations:

Kingston and Benedictine Hospitals should be joined under a single unified governance structure, contingent upon Kingston Hospital continuing to provide access to reproductive services in a location proximate to the hospital. The joined facility should be licensed for approximately 250 to 300 beds.

Benedictine Hospital’s Mission Statement is as follows:

Our Mission

The Care of the sick must rank above and before all else so that they may truly be served as Christ. Faithful to the Gospel values of its Roman Catholic heritage and its 1500-year-old Benedictine tradition of hospitality, community, stewardship, respect of persons, and peace, Benedictine Hospital is dedicated to the provision of health care services through the use of available resources to meet the needs of the people who come for care. As part of its healing ministry, Benedictine Hospital upholds the sacredness of life at all stages, recognizes the dignity of each person and provides for the spiritual as well as the physical needs of those it serves.

Perhaps Benedictine’s mission statement scared the Commission because they are recommending (and the only time it is mentioned in regard to combining Catholic and secular hospitals) that Kingston’s abortion mill be moved next door.

Stay tuned and pray.