In Nebraska City, Neb., and Denville, N.J., hospital staff members are sitting down with police officers, teachers, social workers and others to discover what makes violence erupt in their communities and gather ideas about what can be done to prevent disagreements that might lead to injury or bloodshed.

Approaching community benefit activity in a strategic way will have a much more significant impact than delivering services in a disjointed, piecemeal way.

More than eight years after the planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers still treats people who were psychologically traumatized by the terrorist attack.

Truckloads of donated medical and emergency supplies for Haitian earthquake relief efforts are arriving daily at the Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach warehouses in Springfield, Ill., and Chicago.

After about 10 years with no new Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly starting in New York — a time when the PACE network was expanding in other states — the Empire State last year enabled three such programs to open.

On Feb. 25, St. Elizabeth Regional Health will open a 150-bed hospital in Lafayette, Ind., that administrators say was developed with significant input from clinicians and community members.

St. Joseph's Hospital of Tampa, Fla., has opened a 108-bed hospital in the North Tampa community of Lutz, Fla., to serve what administrators say is a rapidly growing population that has had insufficient access to medical services.

On Feb. 2, a U.S. bankruptcy court approved a plan that St. Mary's Hospital of Passaic, N.J., had laid out for its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Beginning this month, Memorial Health Care System of Chattanooga, Tenn., no longer will hire people who smoke.

Two orthopedic hospitals that are affiliated with the Catholic health ministry are slated to open within the next year — one in Denver, and the other, in Phoenix.

CHA has developed a guide for responding to the open-ended questions on the IRS Form 990, Schedule H

Mission Hospital of Mission Viejo, Calif., has completed a $153 million patient care tower that expands the facility's capacity to meet the needs of the growing population of Orange County, according to Markie Cowley, Mission Hospital's executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Fr. Joseph Kukura, president of the Catholic HealthCare Partnership of New Jersey, died Feb. 1. The cause was cancer. He was a bioethics expert and an advocate for Catholic health care and for the underserved.

Sr. Karin Dufault's contributions toward advancing the quality and reach of palliative care are being recognized with a lectureship named in her honor.

The young men gather in a classroom near an old Navy shipyard in North Charleston, S.C. Some of them have been in trouble with the law. Almost all of them grew up without their fathers. Many don't have jobs.