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2009 Archive

January 15
- A tribute to the 'invisible' homeless
- Bishop Vann named bishops' liaison to CHA
- CHA audioconference explores how to reach diverse populations
- Cover the Uninsured Week set for March
- Eight facilities recognized with Magnet credential
- Ex-cons and gang members shed tattoos and improve prospects for success in the workplace
- Exempla mission leader's reflections invite caregivers to take spiritual breaks
- Holy Cross to build hospital, renovate existing campus, add clinics by 2012
- Keeping Up
- Museum illuminates St. Mary's long history
- Nation heeds call for dialogue on health reform
- Safeguarding Catholic identity requires diligence in business dealings
- Six Catholic facilities among Leapfrog's 13 'Highest Value Hospitals'
- Stricter tobacco policies forcing smokers' hands
- Volunteers from CHI hospitals donate bed nets to Tanzanians
February 1
- Bon Secours Virginia, Sentara partner to build Virginia Beach hospital
- CHA debuts online ERD learning resource for experts and novices
- CHA updates guide with new IRS information
- Couple establishes $1 million endowment
- Hospitals prove green strategies can be inexpensive, low-tech
- Keeping Up
- Labyrinth walkers pause to reflect and heal
- Maine's St. Mary's wins McGaw prize for community service
- Ministry supports coverage for young immigrants
- New CHA advocacy agenda prioritizes health care for all
- St. Cloud to add wing, upgrade facilities
- Volunteer roles give doctors chance to concentrate on care
- Women religious reflect on civil rights advancements
February 15
- April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day
- Ascension Health promotes jobs creation in Flint
- Catholic coalition to unveil 'St. Francis Pledge' on climate change
- Catholic Healthcare West says no to genetically engineered sugar
- Employment picture increases urgency of health care reform
- Event committees keep Catholic facilities hopping year-round
- Haiti Photo Gallery
- Haitian hospital seeks hand-up from U.S. health care ministry
- IHI recognizes three CHA hospitals for big strides in quality
- Keeping Up
- St. Elizabeth promotes good nutrition for cancer patients
March 1
- Alegent works with churches to build network focused on health
- At seminar, Louisville residents learn how to spot trafficking victims
- Baptist Hospital employees shape spiritual care programs
- CHRISTUS children's hospital celebrates golden anniversary
- COMMENTARY — Cover the Uninsured Week: Hospitals making a difference
- Economic downturn ups need for SOAR! donations
- Hospitality eases stress for families of Avera McKennan patients
- Keeping Up
- Mission leaders have role in quality improvement
- Sisters of St. Joseph care for their frail members
- Teens protect teens from alcohol-impaired drivers
March 15
- CHW makes second loan to help clinics caught in California's budget crisis
- College offers displaced workers a tuition break
- Hospital makes effort to accommodate diverse worldviews
- In upscale neighborhoods, an affordable option for elderly
- IOM: Insurance lack harms communities
- Keeping Up
- Ministry has responsibility to heal the Earth, speakers say
- Rolling clinics deliver care to medically underserved areas
- St. Elizabeth's Hospital gives its employees cash to stimulate local economy
- St. Joseph takes healthy lifestyle message to schools
April 1
- A sister's untimely breast cancer death inspires a lifesaving movement
- As patient, St. Vincent nurse rediscovers value of faith, family, friends
- CHA launches online tool for measuring mission effectiveness
- CHRISTUS, others bring inflatable hospital to S.E. Texas
- Exempla Saint Joseph partners with physicians on orthopedic hospital
- Keeping Up
- OSF St. Mary to mark centennial
- Provena mixes fun with health promotion for seniors
- Providence Hood River opens addition
- Regional summit on health reform
- Sisters of Charity system to take ownership of hospitals
- Sisters of Providence build nursing residence for elderly sisters, laity
- St. Mary's Hospital of Passaic seeks Chapter 11 protection to reorganize
- Today's cord blood cells provide stock for tomorrow's cures
- Urban hospitals must revamp to succeed, say executives
April 15
- Ascension CEOs work with competitors to improve care access
- Catholic providers lead way during Cover the Uninsured Week
- Flooding triggers evacuation of Fargo hospitals, nursing homes
- Former CHI head, Cahill, inducted into Health Care Hall of Fame
- Keeping Up
- Ministry's environmental leaders recruit converts to green cause
- Providence cuts energy consumption despite expansion
- Sisters of Charity in the limelight at New York St. Patrick's parade
- SSM's new hospital is designed to increase patient safety
- St. Joseph's ER volunteers lower patient stress
- St. Vincent's building design clears commission, but project faces lawsuit
May 1
- Addicts find sanctuary in Vancouver program
- CHA experts promote sophisticated messaging on health reform
- Covenant reworks service mix at two Lubbock campuses
- Franciscan Health opens St. Anthony Hospital in Washington's Gig Harbor
- Girl Scouts whip up meal for the homeless
- Golf gets Marian cancer patients back into the swing of life
- Holy Cross provides hospitality suite for Jewish visitors
- Journal misstates Catholic principles relating to maternal health crises
- Keeping Up
- Love of the aged fuels work of Sr. Peter Lillian DiMaria, O CARM
- Ministry members participate in National Healthcare Decisions Day
- Pope names Polish bishop as new head of Vatican's health care council
- Social Security agency requests ministry's help with Mother's Day campaign
- St. Joseph's center helps kids overcome serious eating problems
- Traveling exhibit tells the story of Catholic sisters in America
- Youville's garbage returns to soil
May 15
- Avera to use grants of $13.5 million to bolster rural and cancer care
- Benedictine to build skilled nursing facility in Bismarck, N.D., by 2010
- CHA honors Vatican's Sr. Sharon Holland, IHM, for service to ministry
- CHI pursuing transfer of St. John's to Mercy
- Holy Cross ER suits sensory-challenged seniors
- Hospice of the Gorge reaches migrant families
- Keeping Up
- Love is essential to application of Christian ethics in health care
- Ministry gives public a dose of reassurance on flu strain
- Ministry staff aims to ease burdens on patients' 'informal' caregivers
- Nurse receives blessing
- Provena Saint Joseph opens patient tower with all-private rooms
- Trinity to leave Franciscan system
June 1
- Adventurer, altruist Stan Brock serves U.S. health care poor
- Congressional efforts at health reform to accelerate this summer
- Health ministry active in New Orleans' revival
- Honolulu's St. Francis offers service that helps seniors remain independent
- Keeping Up
- Kresge makes challenge grant
- Rural hospitals deliver health care with a personal touch
- Saint Vincent initiative highlights importance of faith in healing
- St. Joseph program trains laypeople to deliver spiritual support to patients
- Vatican approves public juridic person model for Providence Health
June 15
- 'Hearts and Minds' program offers a dynamic way to conduct outreach
- Achievement Citation Award: Mercy Sacramento program helps mothers to battle addiction
- Alexian symposium to help clinicians identify 'hidden injuries' in veterans
- Awardees receive sculpture evoking Gospel story of healing
- Brinker built Komen for the Cure foundation into global force for good
- CHA membership elects board members, approves dues resolution
- CHA volunteers go to work in New Orleans
- CleanMed speakers exhort purchasers to buy eco-friendly products
- Elder care field likely to see more partnerships, creativity in approaches, say experts on panel
- Gentle touch communicates caring to people with dementia
- Health care experts examine charity care picture and what may come
- Keeping Up
- Lifetime Achievement Award: With a 'passion for the possible,' Sr. Gellise serves the vulnerable
- Make plans to laugh; it's the best stress buster, says presenter
- Massive demands in a pandemic will require care rationing
- Mercy supports walking tour in Cedar Rapids
- Midcareer Award: Mission is top priority on balance sheet for Bon Secours' Gallagher
- Ministry can influence health reform, say speakers
- Ministry hospitals pilot internal audit program for community benefit
- Ministry is committed to reform that promotes human dignity
- Ministry must return to Gospel-based vision of founders, says ethicist
- Ministry seizes challenge and opportunity to shape health reform
- Panel: Sponsors, executives and boards can strengthen communications
- Panelists show how a matrix tool can aid in mission assessment
- Planning, evaluation crucial to success of community benefit programs
- Postcards from New Orleans
- Present compelling case for palliative care, panel advises attendees
- Providers use ethics audits to measure progress, shortfalls against ERDs
- Remote Area Medical responds to great unmet health needs in U.S.
- Schieffer discusses opening to pass health reform legislation this year
- Sr. Concilia Moran Award: Sr. DeClercq prepares laity to succeed religious sponsors at Trinity Health
- Sr. Concilia Moran Award: Sr. Ketterer led effort to transform sponsorship model at Covenant Health Systems
- St. Elizabeth's stroke awareness program alerts women to risks
- The devil's in the details with health insurance reform
- Value-based decisions preserve Catholic identity, say health leaders
July 1
- Bon Secours campus secures citizen input on community plan
- CHA co-hosts Capitol Hill briefing on need for palliative care services
- CHA ethicist receives Catholic Press award
- CHA materials get boards up to speed on IRS Form 990
- Daughters of Charity kick off nurse-led sepsis study
- Keeping Up
- Ministry members find creative ways to be good citizens
- Providence nursing home has a warm spot for troops
- St. Anthony's among facilities using palm scanners to register patients
- St. John's helps seniors determine if they are safe behind the wheel
- St. Joseph's broadcasts original video programming
- Stakeholders, politicians work on cutting price tag for health reform
- Stay the course
- USCCB releases guidance for union representation campaigns
- With addition, Alexian Brothers site converts to all-private rooms
- Workforce research finds nurses critical to health reform
August 1
- CHA joins with hospital community to help pay for health reform
- CHA welcomes senior director of sponsor services
- Continue the progress
- Dementia patients lead full lives at Huger Mercy Living Center
- Dr. Regina Benjamin called great choice for top public health advisor
- Fr. DiNoia ordained archbishop following appointment to Vatican post
- Health reformers consider ways to link quality to reimbursement
- Keeping Up
- Nursing homes offer fresher food, tastier choices for residents
- Our Lady of the Lake and LSU consider partnering on medical education
- Saint Anthony of Chicago separates from Ascension Health, will stand alone
- St. Mary's acquires Amsterdam Memorial
- Time to get creative in tackling childhood obesity, SLU experts say
- Two Catholic hospitals receive Circle of Life citations
August 15
- Avera program gives Head Start kids, families a boost
- Chelsea, Mich., hospital joins Trinity's Saint Joseph
- CHRISTUS Santa Rosa opens hospital, plans academic children's hospital
- Cincinnati's Jewish Hospital to join Mercy Health Partners
- Clean, lean workspaces save steps, lower stress at Mercy Health Center
- FoodMed explores how hospitals can serve food healthful to patients, planet
- Health reformers search for better care delivery models
- Keeping Up
- Lourdes, St. Rose cited in national guide on palliative care
- Ministry provides holistic support to those on the NICU roller coaster
- Sisters of St. Joseph, Benedictine agree to cosponsor Nazareth Living Center
September 1
- Community Health Partners helps poor women prepare for motherhood
- Downturn straining charity care system, say leaders
- Keck center opening completes replacement hospital
- Keeping Up
- Our vision: Health insurance coverage for all in the United States
- Reformers ponder how to promote healthy living
- Saint John's Health Center connects to community with media art wall
- Saint Joseph's mines the many talents of its sponsors
- Some Medal of Freedom winners have familiar faces to ministry members
- Sr. Karam to head St. Vincent Charity, Ross to serve as COO
- St. Joseph's Mission Hospital acquires South Coast Medical
- St. Vincent's clears legal hurdle in bid to build hospital in Clay County, Fla.
- Trenton's St. Francis starts up LIFE, New Jersey's first PACE program
September 15
- Artist creates crop art of St. Francis Health logo
- CHA names members of steering committee developing vision of ministry's future
- CHI to sell three hospitals to Trinity Health
- Delivering bad news well requires courage, patience and empathy
- For the good of all
- Health reformers hunt for ways to improve quality, safety of care
- Keeping Up
- Mercy asks questions on substance abuse to motivate behavior change
- Prevention seen as way to slow growth in charity
- Public health experts ask providers to prepare for H1N1's return
- Sisters of Charity system, Community First agree on Exempla transfer
- St. Vincent's effort reaches busy farmers where they meet
October 1
- Catholic health executives say the time is right for reform
- CHA gets enthusiastic response to its flu preparedness website
- CHRISTUS center offers homeless clients psychiatric help via telemedicine
- Community Health Partners uses community input to shape services
- Foundress of Little Sisters to be canonized
- Indianapolis Catholic institutions partner in online, accelerated nursing program
- Keeping Up
- Legislators ponder ways to keep seniors independent longer
- Ministry advocates come to Washington to support health reform
- Ministry campuses provide 'living lab' for students to try out medical careers
- St. John's chaplains tap into new media to connect with people
- Thank you, Mr. President
October 15
- 'Be strategic' in support of quality, consultant advises chaplains
- Benedictine health system dietary staffs go tong-to-tong in cook-off
- Catholic Healthcare West hospitals receive Circle of Life for palliative care
- Degree programs aim to fill demand for bioethicists
- Focus time
- Keeping Up
- Majority of doctors support public insurance option
- Ministry health reform advocates fan out over Capitol Hill
- Ministry staff members help each other through economic downturn
- Real men wear pink for breast cancer awareness
- Youth with dual diagnoses learn skills to reenter mainstream
November 1
- Amid crushing poverty, hope is the currency of heroes
- BEST Age exercise programs help frail seniors achieve independence
- CHI creates national foundation office, names its president
- CHI gift helps nuns to renovate houses destroyed by Hurricane Katrina
- Culture change work at St. Joseph involves developing employees
- Exempla board agrees to changes giving Sisters of Charity more control
- Flexibility, creativity, respect key to retaining nurses
- Keeping Up
- Picchi named executive director of Supportive Care Coalition
- Seton's medical school affiliation could mitigate doctor shortage
- Sr. Patricia Eck, CBS, to lead congregation's newly formed international leadership team
- St. Elizabeth Healthcare sells old Covington, Ky., campus
- Trinity Health's Swedish recognized for promoting diversity, culturally competent care
- Vision 2020 participants consider drivers of systemic change in health care
- We still have much to do to get good health reform
November 15
- Cancer survivors fight lingering fatigue with structured exercise
- CHW speaks the language of diversity
- Formation programs connect trustees to mission
- Fr. Damien's canonization twines love of church and country
- Keeping Up
- Ministry programs let seniors stay at home despite declining health
- Nurses take charge in 'Transforming Care at the Bedside'
- Pet pantry provides 'good help' to animal lovers in need
- Sr. Marie Lenahan, RSM, past president of Mercy hospitals in Philadelphia, dies
- St. Joseph ED uses Toyota's lean manufacturing model
December 1
- Bioethics expert looks at issues in conscience debate
- Bishops clarify ethical directive on artificial nutrition, hydration
- CHA committees say ministry must remain focused on community need
- Keeping Up
- Mercy challenges border town residents to gain control of their health
- Ministry Health Care helps revive an aging Milwaukee neighborhood
- Online diary traces Hospital Sisters' rough journey to America
- Providence raises cultural sensitivity of physicians caring for the dying
- Saint John's receives $100 million for translational medicine centers
- St. Joseph Hospital of Eureka, Calif., to add tower by 2011
- St. Mary's Nutrition Center holds bite-size fund-raiser
- St. Vincent Center of Hope starts the healing process for assault victims
- The really hard part of health reform is here
December 15
- CHA hosting networking calls on environmental stewardship
- CHA invites ministry to envision, help shape future of Catholic health care
- Christ's gift of hope inspires ministry's care of the vulnerable
- CHRISTUS St. Frances contest invites innovation in diabetes care
- Keeping Up
- Ministry systems, facilities nourish their spiritual 'personalities'
- MOMobile guides uninsured women through healthy pregnancies
- Our Lady of Fatima on the move
- PeaceHealth to build facility on Washington's San Juan Island
- Residents' training has safety focus at Saint Francis, St. John's, TriHealth
- Resurrection to transfer two hospitals
- Saint Francis to staff: Accent the positive at work, home
- Saint Joseph to open replacement hospital
- St. John's offers 'virtual visitations' during flu season
- St. Joseph Health Services of Rhode Island to affiliate with Roger Williams Medical
- St. Joseph's takes proactive approach to keeping kids safe, healthy
- Staff, community members help to bring Christmas cheer to hospital halls

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