I think that with health care institutions, what we call their conscience we called “mission”. From the earliest days of our country, the religious sisters who founded health care in our country were driven by their mission of serving other people. That is the heart of who they were, and it is to this very day.
I live right next to a Catholic hospital that presents itself as the Urban Angel protecting the people, and it does that. That spirit, that mission at that hospital, is something profound. It is what I would call an institutional conscience. It is something very precious.
Institutions such as Catholic hospitals and others of other faiths are not bricks and mortar; they are the spirit of the people there who are helping. I think that's a very narrow and misguided view of groups of people who give their life to help others and without whom this country would be a colder, harsher, rougher place, without the love and care of people serving a mission, as in a hospital. It's not just bricks and mortar at all.