Important Information About Transgender Health Care at Dignity Health

At Dignity Health, our goal is to deliver compassionate, high-quality, and affordable health services to all, including transgender patients and their families. We offer a wide range of transgender health care at our inpatient and outpatient facilities. Guided by robust policies, Dignity Health prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression, and calls on all employees to provide unbiased, respectful, sensitive care to transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive patients and their families. Our network of care includes, but is not limited to, offerings such as hormone therapy, psychological services, mastectomy, breast augmentation, orchiectomy, and hysterectomy, although not all services are available at all facilities.

When a service is not available at a given location, care is transitioned to a provider within reasonable driving distance that offers the desired service. For example, providers are made aware that some sterilization procedures, including some surgeries, are not performed at our Catholic facilities (see list below). In these instances, providers transition a patient’s care to other providers within a reasonable distance, including our non-Catholic facilities (see list below). 

We welcome inquiries from patients and providers about the wide range of transgender health care available at our facilities. We are deeply committed to providing high-quality, supportive, welcoming care, regardless of gender identity or expression.

Catholic Facilities:**

  • Mercy Hospital of Folsom, CA 
  • Mercy Medical Center Mount Shasta, CA
  • Mercy Medical Center Redding, CA
  • Mercy San Juan Medical Center, CA 
  • Dominican Hospital, CA 
  • Mercy General Hospital, CA 
  • Arroyo Grande Hospital, CA 
  • Marian Regional Medical Center, CA 
  • St. John’s Regional Medical Center, CA 
  • St. Joseph’s Medical Center, CA 
  • Mercy Medical Center Merced, CA 
  • St. Bernardine Medical Center, CA 
  • St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, CA 
  • St. Mary Medical Center Long Beach, CA 
  • Mercy Hospitals of Bakersfield, CA
  • Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, AZ
  • St Joseph’s Hospital, AZ
  • St Joseph’s Westgate, AZ
  • St. Rose Dominican Hospital - Siena, NV
  • St. Rose Dominican Hospital - Rose De Lima, NV
  • St. Rose Dominican Hospital - San Martin, NV

**As a general principle, our Catholic facilities do not perform sterilizing hysterectomies and orchiectomies on any patient regardless of gender identity or expression.

Other than Catholic Facilities:

  • Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, CA 
  • French Hospital Medical Center, CA 
  • California Hospital Medical Center, CA 
  • Northridge Hospital Medical Center, CA 
  • Methodist Hospital of Sacramento, CA 
  • Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, CA 
  • Woodland Memorial Hospital, CA 
  • Glendale Memorial Hospital, CA
  • Community Hospital of San Bernardino, CA 
  • Sequoia Hospital, CA 
  • Mark Twain Medical Center, CA
  • Dignity Health Arizona General Hospital - Laveen, AZ
  • Dignity Health Arizona Hospital - Mesa, AZ
  • Yavapai Regional Medical Center, AZ
  • Chandler Regional Medical Center, AZ

Our Non-Discrimination Policies

These are our policies forbidding LGBTQ+ discrimination:

Additional Resources for Patients and Providers

Many excellent resources now exist for LGBTQ+ patients and their health care providers. More Info

Contact Us

Have a question or feedback? Don’t hesitate to contact us! Just email Dignity Health LGBTQ+ Patient Advocate Deanna Buelow: [email protected].