The Daughters of Charity Health System (DCHS) is a regional health care system of six hospitals spanning the California coast that provides comprehensive health care that is attentive to the whole person, including body, mind and spirit. It provides acute, long-term, community health, psychiatric, rehabilitation and residential care. It is sponsored by the Daughters of Charity, Province of the West, a Society of Apostolic Life serving the sick and those who live in poverty.