At Youville Place, our mission is to create a secure, caring community, providing support services which promote the dignity and satisfaction of all residents, recognizing each person’s value as an individual.
Believing in community-oriented, values-driven, holistic, compassionate care is consistent with the mission of our founders, the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, known to us as the Grey Nuns.
Youville Place selects its staff and designs its housing and support services to reflect these beliefs.
History
Originally established as the Provincial House for the Grey Nuns, an order dedicated to providing compassionate care for those in need, the property housed young Novitiates, retired nuns, the Provincial Administration and nuns that worked in the community. Changing times brought changing uses of the building. In 1997, the Grey Nuns established Youville Place, an assisted living residence designed to serve elders in the community, as well as providing much needed services to the aging nuns. In 2008, the Grey Nuns sold Youville Place to Covenant Health Systems, Inc. of Lexington, Massachusetts. YouvillePlace welcomes people of all religions, races, and cultures, and provides residents with a warm and comfortable community.
Covenant Health Systems is a Catholic, not-for-profit health care system, originally founded by the Grey Nuns in 1983 to oversee their health care institutions in the United States. Today, Covenant consists of acute care hospitals, long-term care facilities, assisted living residences, elderly housing complexes, and a host of community-based programs, including adult day health services, located throughout New England. For more about Covenant Health Systems, visit www.covenanths.org.
Marie Marguerite d’Youville was a woman of 18th century Canada, who founded the Sisters of Charity of Montreal, known as the Grey Nuns, in 1737. She touched the lives of thousands during her life and has touched the lives of countless more since her death in 1771. Her mission lives on today in those who, like her, show the compassionate love of God in ministry to the poor in body, mind, or spirit. She was given the title of “Mother of Universal Charity” at her beatification in 1959 and pronounced “Saint” on December 9, 1990.
