CommonSpirit Health and the launching of Planned Parenthood 2.0
In June, the Lepanto Institute published a 64-page report that cataloged the intrinsically evil activities of the largest Catholic health Network in the United States. The report proved that CommonSpirit Health was responsible for the performance of sex-change operations, providing hormone-based transgender therapies, providing puberty blockers to children under the auspices of so-called “gender-affirming care,” financially subsidizing the same through its employee benefits packages, financially subsidizing medical institutions performing these procedures and therapies, providing all forms of modern contraception (including abortifacients) to patients, and even performing (at least in one case) elective abortions and surgical sterilizations.
Following the publication of this report, the Lepanto Institute has learned that CommonSpirit Health has partnered with a women’s clinic that is now providing telemedicine abortions. In 2021, CommonSpirit announced a new partnership with Tia Women’s Health, a partnership designed to dramatically expand Tia’s impact by expanding its physical presence around the country. And even though Tia has only recently begun providing medical abortions, its intention to expand the abortion industry through these clinics has been a matter of public record since its inception.
Tia Women’s Health, a New York–based women’s primary and reproductive health clinic, got its start in 2017 as a chat-based app called “Ask Tia,” which was designed to answer questions about “birth control, sexual health, insurance coverage, and more.”
As will be seen in this report, Tia Women’s Health provides contraception and now abortion in a bid to become what appears to be Planned Parenthood 2.0, and it is doing so with the help of the largest Catholic health network in the United States.
Background on the Partnership
On March 31, 2021, CommonSpirit Health published a press release announcing its partnership with Tia in a “first-of-its-kind partnership to create a new front door to healthcare for women.” According to the press release, the partnership is intended to build women’s health clinics, beginning in Phoenix, Arizona:
Carolyn Witte
The deal enables the two healthcare leaders to launch Tia-branded women’s health clinics together that will provide comprehensive, blended virtual and in-person care — with plans for the first clinic in Phoenix, where CommonSpirit operates multiple Dignity Health medical centers. The CommonSpirit relationship is Tia’s first major partnership with a national health system. The joint venture clinics will combine a multitude of services and practitioners into a one-stop shop for women that fuses gynecological care and primary care. Tia will provide its distinctive care model, staffing, and technology infrastructure, while CommonSpirit will connect Tia to patients, health plan partners, and hospital and specialty care access.
Carolyn Witte, the co-founder and CEO of Tia, explained why CommonSpirit was the ideal choice of partner in this endeavor, saying: “CommonSpirit was the ideal partner to help us scale our proven model nationally with geographic reach across 21 states from coast to coast, recognized clinical excellence, and an industry-leading commitment to health equity.”
The end of the press release concludes with a basic establishment of the collaborative plan:
“The initial Tia-CommonSpirit pilot will launch “virtual-first” in spring 2021, followed by its first brick-and-mortar clinic opening this October in Phoenix, with expansions in Arizona and other CommonSpirit markets over the next few years.”
Currently, CommonSpirit is clearly identified on Tia’s website as a “partner.”
The “Ask Tia Help Center” provided some additional information about the reason for this partnership:
“By partnering, Tia can expand to reach more people in more states, expand the insurance plans we accept that are critical to accessing our services, and enable our patients to have seamless access to premier specialty care and hospitals, starting in Arizona.”
In short, Tia is using CommonSpirit Health to provide the financial and medical infrastructure needed to build and establish brick-and-mortar locations over nearly half the country, while CommonSpirit receives patient referrals from Tia. The Ask Tia Help Center also explained how these referrals work, saying:
One of the many benefits of Tia’s partnership with Dignity/Commonspirit is the ease of access to premier specialists if the scope of your needs falls outside of Tia’s Care Team expertise. While we aim to be a “one-stop shop” for our patients, we are committed to quality above all else, and sometimes that means making a referral to a specialist. For example, if you need to see a cardiologist, endocrinologist or rheumatologist, Tia’s Care Coordinators can assist you with scheduling and sharing of your health records to make collaboration between your primary care team at Tia and Dignity Health’s specialists smooth and seamless.
Read the rest of the report at the Lepanto Institute.