St. Francis Health Center

University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus, formerly known as St. Francis Health Center is a for-profit hospital and branch of the University of Kansas Medical School in Topeka, Kansas, United States. The hospital was founded in 1909 by the Catholic organization Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth. On May 4, 2017, a press conference announced that The University of Kansas Hospital would take over operations of the hospital from SCL Health, in a partnership with Ardent Health. The purchase was finalized on November 1, 2017.