Sister Jane Gerety, RSM, Ph.D., a Sister of Mercy since 1959, serves as the
senior vice president for sponsorship and is the corporate compliance
officer at Saint Joseph’s Hospital Health System in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sr. Jane joined Saint Joseph’s in 1992 and is responsible for ensuring that the hospital fulfills its mission to the Atlanta community by providing compassionate, clinically excellent health care to all, no matter their ability to pay. Her responsibilities include overseeing corporate compliance, mission effectiveness, and care of the poor.
Under Sr. Jane’s leadership, Saint Joseph’s was one of the first hospitals to establish a Center for Ethics in Health Care. She has also has been instrumental in the successful development of the Saint Joseph’s Research Institute, which is engaged in finding new treatments and moving those treatments through pre-clinical and clinical research in a timely fashion, so that they get to patients faster.
Prior to joining Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Sr. Jane was the Associate Professor of English and Academic Dean at Carlow College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She previously taught high school students English, French and Spanish. Her dedication to education extends beyond teaching; while in Pittsburgh, Sr. Jane established a highly successful baccalaureate program for poor women in the Pittsburgh Hill District.
Sr. Jane earned her B.A. degree in French from Mt. St. Agnes College in Baltimore, a master’s degree in French from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont; and a master’s and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan.
Sr. Jane has served on numerous notfor- profit boards including a stint as Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island. She has also served as the Chair of several other organizations including, St. John’s Mercy Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri; Mercy Housing Southeast; Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Atlanta; Saint Joseph’s Health System, Saint Joseph’s Mercy Foundation and Saint Joseph’s Research Institute, Atlanta; MedShare International, Atlanta, and Mercy Medical, Daphne, Alabama.
A frequent guest speaker and author on the mission of Catholic health care, governance, compliance, and health-care reform, Sr. Jane also speaks on such topics as poetry and meditation, especially women poets and W.B. Yeats. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on “Poetry and Magic: Yeats’ Poems of Meditation,” and her love of poetry is evident in her prayers and inspirations when she speaks to audiences.
Sr. Jane’s Irish heritage is something that she is very proud to claim. Her mother’s family immigrated to the United States from County Mayo, while her father’s family hailed from County Meath. Sr. Jane also has another connection to Ireland: her order, the Religious Sisters of Mercy, was founded by Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland, in 1831.
Sr. Jane joined Saint Joseph’s in 1992 and is responsible for ensuring that the hospital fulfills its mission to the Atlanta community by providing compassionate, clinically excellent health care to all, no matter their ability to pay. Her responsibilities include overseeing corporate compliance, mission effectiveness, and care of the poor.
Under Sr. Jane’s leadership, Saint Joseph’s was one of the first hospitals to establish a Center for Ethics in Health Care. She has also has been instrumental in the successful development of the Saint Joseph’s Research Institute, which is engaged in finding new treatments and moving those treatments through pre-clinical and clinical research in a timely fashion, so that they get to patients faster.
Prior to joining Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Sr. Jane was the Associate Professor of English and Academic Dean at Carlow College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She previously taught high school students English, French and Spanish. Her dedication to education extends beyond teaching; while in Pittsburgh, Sr. Jane established a highly successful baccalaureate program for poor women in the Pittsburgh Hill District.
Sr. Jane earned her B.A. degree in French from Mt. St. Agnes College in Baltimore, a master’s degree in French from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont; and a master’s and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan.
Sr. Jane has served on numerous notfor- profit boards including a stint as Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island. She has also served as the Chair of several other organizations including, St. John’s Mercy Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri; Mercy Housing Southeast; Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Atlanta; Saint Joseph’s Health System, Saint Joseph’s Mercy Foundation and Saint Joseph’s Research Institute, Atlanta; MedShare International, Atlanta, and Mercy Medical, Daphne, Alabama.
A frequent guest speaker and author on the mission of Catholic health care, governance, compliance, and health-care reform, Sr. Jane also speaks on such topics as poetry and meditation, especially women poets and W.B. Yeats. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on “Poetry and Magic: Yeats’ Poems of Meditation,” and her love of poetry is evident in her prayers and inspirations when she speaks to audiences.
Sr. Jane’s Irish heritage is something that she is very proud to claim. Her mother’s family immigrated to the United States from County Mayo, while her father’s family hailed from County Meath. Sr. Jane also has another connection to Ireland: her order, the Religious Sisters of Mercy, was founded by Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland, in 1831.