Christians have been involved in health care for centuries. In the United States this often took the form of building hospitals. In the Houston Medical Center, touted as the largest in the world, there is Methodist Hospital, St. Luke’s Episcopal and the Baylor College of Medicine (Baptist Medical School). Several Baptist hospitals are spotted around the city, and a Roman Catholic hospital continues in the downtown area. What is true in one city is replicated in other cities. Other institutions instituted for the care of special groups, such as the elderly, dot the national landscape, often in small towns. The cost of care, the survival mode of churches, and the shift of focus from individual care to ‘justice’ issues in society has relegated the denominations’ health concerns to advocacy for legislative remedies.

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