Growth in the U.S. Catholic healthcare sector suggests an increasing need for transparency about these restrictions, so that women can make informed decisions and, when needed, seek alternative providers. It oversees the following hospitals: The vast majority of adult American women of reproductive age want information about a hospital’s religious restrictions while they are deciding where to go for reproductive health care – not after they are seated in a waiting room. Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces the resolution of a religious discrimination complaint against Prince George’s Hospital Center of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) after UMMS adopted new policies ensuring clergy access to patients for religious purposes during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Yet we know little about how religious policy affects the care doctors give to patients. Christian Missionary Hospital, Brahmanbaria; LAMB Integrated Rural Health & Development Project, Parbatipur; Christian Missionary Hospital, Rajshahi; Memorial Christian Hospital, Cox's Bazar; DBLM, The Leprosy Mission, Nilphamari, India; Christian Missionary Hospital, Comilla ; China. But what do women who arrive at religious hospitals seeking care actually want to know about those institutions’ policies?Episode 70: The Future of Family PlanningWhat Do Patients Know, and What Do They Want to Know?State and federal legislation known as “institutional conscience clauses” protect the ability of religious healthcare institutions to prohibit physicians from delivering religiously restricted care and/or information about how the patient could receive it elsewhere. Memorial Christian hospital sialkot The earliest documented institutions aiming to provide cures were ancient Egyptian temples.In ancient history, hospitals have been documented in Greece, Rome, the Indian subcontinent, and Persia. But many patients may not be aware of their local hospital’s religious affiliation – and importantly, patients who receive obstetric and other reproductive care in religious hospitals may face religiously-based restrictions on the treatment their doctor can provide. But many patients may not be aware of their local hospital’s religious affiliation – and importantly, patients who receive obstetric and other reproductive care in religious hospitals may face religiously-based restrictions on the treatment their doctor can provide. Our participants completed surveys online or over the phone, and all our analyses were weighted in order to generate estimates representative of the population of U.S. adult reproductive age women.We found that women have little knowledge that a hospital’s religious affiliation can restrict care, that they want to know exactly how their care is restricted, they want to be offered transfer to a different hospital when relevant, and that they believe facilities should not be allowed to restrict care according to religion in the first place. This independent governing body's mission is to provide health care for all. Over the past decade, Catholic hospitals have merged with and purchased nonsectarian hospitals around the United States, becoming leading players in the nation’s health-care industry. Wikipedia articles needing clarification from April 2019Mission Hospital (Mission Viejo, California)https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Christian_mission_hospitals&oldid=975067253Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike LicenseERBHS (Eastern Regional Board of Health Services) runs 7 hospitals in Central India which belong to the Church of North India.