Redmond Park Hospital S-4 Registration of securities issued in business combination transactions

Exhibit 3.227

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

MIDWEST HOLDINGS, INC.

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The undersigned natural person, acting as an incorporator of a corporation under the General Corporation Law of Delaware, hereby adopts the following Certificate of Incorporation for such corporation:

ARTICLE ONE

The name of the corporation is Midwest Holdings, Inc.

ARTICLE TWO

The address of its registered office in the State of Delaware is Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, City of Wilmington 19801, County of New Castle. The name of its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

ARTICLE THREE

The purpose for which the corporation is organized is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

ARTICLE FOUR

The total number of shares of stock which the corporation shall have authority to issue is 1,000 shares of Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share.

ARTICLE FIVE

The name and mailing address of the sole incorporator are as follows:

NAME	MAILING ADDRESS
Melinda S. Lampkin	One Park Plaza Nashville, TN 37203

ARTICLE SIX

The corporation is to have perpetual existence.

ARTICLE SEVEN

In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by state, the board of directors of the corporation is expressly authorized to make, alter or repeal the bylaws of the corporation.

ARTICLE EIGHT

Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the bylaws of the corporation may provide. The books of the corporation may be kept outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the board of directors or in the bylaws of the corporation. Election of directors need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of the corporation so provide.

ARTICLE NINE

The personal liability of the directors of the corporation is hereby eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by the provisions of paragraph (7) of subsection (b) of Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented.

ARTICLE TEN

The corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted. by the provisions of Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented, indemnify any and all persona whom it shall have power to indemnify under said section from and against any and all of the expenses, liabilities, or other matters referred to in or covered by said section, and the indemnification provided for herein shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee, or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors, and administrators of such person.

ARTICLE ELEVEN

The corporation expressly elects not to be governed by Section 203 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

ARTICLE TWELVE

The corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this certificate of incorporation in the manner now or hereafter prescribed herein and by the laws of the State of Delaware, and all rights conferred upon stockholder herein are granted subject to this reservation.

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I, Melinda S. Lampkin, being the incorporator herein before named, for the purpose of forming a corporation pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law, do make this certificate, hereby declaring and certifying that this is my act and deed and the facts herein stated are true, and accordingly have hereunto set my hand this 3rd day of February, 2003.

Melinda S. Lampkin, Incorporator

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