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Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, has been part of the North San Fernando Valley community since the Sisters of the Holy Cross founded it in 1961. It became part of the Providence Health & Services family when the Sisters of Providence purchased it in 1997. Its new South Wing added a much needed 132,000 sf to the medical center and came about because the hospital was in dire straits. Not because of lack of expertise or quality of care, but quite simply, due to lack of space. Constantly operating in over-capacity, Providence Holy Cross, a winner of California’s Performance Excellence Prospector Award, was determined to meet the needs of their ever-growing community. “It was all about volume. We consistently ran over capacity of the beds we had, and this had been going on for some time,” stated Patty Mayberry, RN, who was the Expansion Project Director. “It’s a small hospital, the community grew, and the hospital didn’t. Other hospitals closed and their patients came here.”