January-February 2010

Volume 91, Number 1

Special Section:
Riding Out the Recession

• Introduction — Riding Out the Recession
• Faith-Based Health Systems Point the Way
• Managing Costs and Vendors Maintains Mission Too
• Employing Physicians
• Catholic Health Care Partners Hits the Reset Button
• No Better Time
• Partnerships Pave the Way to Successful HealthCare Reform
• The Bible, the Recession and Our Neighbor

Special Report:
Emergency Contraception

• Introduction — Emergency Contraception A Time Of Special Need
• Sexual Violence: A Medical Center Responds
• 'Plan B': How It Works
• Thinking Ethically about Emergency Contraception

Features

• Q & A — The New Directive 58: What Does It Mean?
• Communicating the Directives to Physicians

Our Ministry

• Press Conference — The Recession's Impact

Departments

• Editor's Note — Fresh Fonts, Fresh Faces
• Health Reform Update — Don't Let The Drama Hide What's At Stake
• Vision 2020 — Scenarios Add Value To Strategic Thinking
• Mission and Leadership — Making Handoffs Work
• Community Benefit — A Checklist For Senior Executives
• Ethics — Cultural Addictions Trump The Common Good
• Canon Law — Chaplains In Canon Law and Contemporary Practice
• Book Review — Diagnosis Critical: The Urgent Threats Confronting Catholic Healthcare
• Book Review — Evidence-Based Management In Healthcare
• Book Review — Hope in an Age of Terror
• Book Review — Now That You've Gone Home
  
• Prayer Service — Called to Be People of Hope

July-August 2010

Volume 91, Number 4

Special Section:
Diversity, The Next Stage

• A Rich Tapestry Weaving in Commitment
• Cultural Competence An Ongoing Quest (Editor’s Note:  This online version of Jeff Thies’s article corrects citations in footnotes 7, 8 and  9, which are incorrect in the print version of the July-August Health Progress.)
  
• Six Months and Counting
  
• Managing Diversity, A Look at Where We Are
  
• Programs Groom Managers and Candidates for Boards
  
• Medical Interpreters Can Save Money, Lives
  
• What's That You Said?
• Welcoming All, Honoring Their Beliefs
• Beyond Accommodation — Diversity Is Part of Who We Are

Features

• Lamentation — The Ethics Gospel Divide
• An American History Lesson — Are Lay Leaders Paying Attention?
• What Did Jesus Do? Lessons for Health Care Leaders
• Slower Is Faster — It Takes Time to Align Cultures

Our Ministry

• Thinking Globally — A Parish Nurse Works With Refugees From Burundi 'God Brought Africa To Me'
• Thinking Globally — Medical Ethics Zimbabwe-Style

Departments

• Editor's Note — Look More Closely. What Have You Missed
• Health Reform Update — It’s Far From Over
• Vision 2020 — What Does The Vision Mean For Health Ministry
  
• Mission and Leadership — Leadership Formation - What Difference Is It Making
  
• Community Benefit — Feet On The Street
  
• Canon Law — The Ethical and Religious Directives as Particular Law  
• Book Reviews — Medical Ethics and the Faith Factor
• Book Reviews — Living Well and Dying Faithfully
  
• Prayer Service — Unity in Diversity

March-April 2010

Volume 91, Number 2

Special Section:
Healing and Design

• Models from the Past Mold the Future in Evidence-Based Health Care Design
  
• Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center: Devoted to Advanced Healing
• St. Francis Medical Center: New Urbanism Drives Hospital Site Plan
• Mercy Gilbert Medical Center: A Restful Place to Pause and Heal
• Providence Newberg Medical Center: Living Lightly on the Land
• Open Spaces, Sacred Places
• Research Highlights Design's Effects on Health

Feature

• Catholic Presence: A Post-Merger Assessment

Our Ministry

• Press Conference — Hospital Designers Harness Urban Planning: Interview with Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Joanna Lombard
• Thinking Globally — Mission Group Pours Medical Supplies into Haiti

Departments

• Editor's Note — Where is God? Look Around
• Health Reform Update — We Still Can't Wait
• Vision 2020 — Let's Look Ahead, Prepare for Trends
• Mission and Leadership — Focus on Design Serves Mission Too
• Community Benefit — Donor Rewards Sustainable Plan for Homeless
• Ethics — Catholics Understand Health Care as a Right
• Canon Law — A Guide for Church Stewards
• Book Review — Doctor Shows How Physiology, Space and Health Connect
• Book Review — Text Guides Churches in Promoting Health
• Prayer Service — Creating Sanctuary

September-October 2010

Volume 91, Number 5

Special Section:
Rural Health Care Extends — and Needs — a Hand

• Rural America: A Look Beyond the Images
• Rural Renaissance or Death Throes?
  
• The Rural Route to Health Care — Where Mission, Neighbor Intersect
• Rural Health Reform Needs Its Own Rx
• Critical Access Hospitals: Catholic Social Teaching in Action
• How to Grow a Rural IT Network
• Nurturing Work and Family Life in Rocky Rural Soil
• When There's No Place to Turn
• Health Care Ethics and Rural Life
• Making a Difference Close to Home: A Rural Executive Knows Her Turf
• The Little Hospital That Could: Lakewood Helps Power a Region
• On the Road Again: Rural Residents Rely on Mobile Services
• Paducah, KY Women's Center Brings Urban Services to Rural Areas
• Trauma Network Comes to Kentucky: CHP Leader a Driving Force

Feature

• The Ministry’s Future in a Turbulent World

Departments

• Editor's Note — Living the Rural 'Adventure'
• Health Reform Update — The Next Step: Framing the Progress
• Vision 2020 — Rural Health: The Startling Statistics
• Community Benefit — Saint Alphonsus Trains to Remain
• Ethics — Bring Back Catholic Social Teaching
• Mission and Leadership — The Catholic Mission of Long-Term Care
• Book Review — Inspired Nurse
• Book Review — Safe Patients, Safe Awards
• Book Review — Superbugs
• Prayer Service — For Our Rural Communities

May-June 2010

Volume 91, Number 3

Special Section:
Nursing in a New Era

• Focus On Nursing: Preparing for a New Era
• The Legacy of Love: Guarding the Flame
  
• Bring Science to the Bedside
  
• Setting Goals for Better Nursing
  
• Nursing Education and the Catholic Tradition
  
• Magnet Recognition: One Hospital's Journey
  
• Nursing, Social Justice and the Marketplace
• Nurse Retention: Turning the Tide

Our Ministry

• Press Conference — At the Bedside: Keeping Nurses Close
• No Hands But Yours — Prayer Shawls: A Blessing in Every Stitch
  
• Thinking Globally — Docs On a Mission: Residents Take Family Medicine to Foreign Lands

Departments

• Editor's Note — We Search for Comfort, We Find It All Around
• Health Reform Update — Quite a Moment
• Vision 2020 — On Solid Ground, Looking Ahead
  
• Community Benefit — Nurses Link Health, Spirituality in the Parish
  
• Ethics — Strengthening the Role of Ethics in Turbulent Times
  
• Mission and Leadership — Nurses Make the Mission Flourish  
• Book Review — How to Hear the Music and Spot the Talent
• Book Review — Spiritual Needs, Religious Practices and Nursing
  
• Prayer Service — Called to Heal, Called to Serve

November-December 2010

Volume 91, Number 6

Special Section:
The Ministry Communicates Its Mission

• Tools for Telling
• Put Values Up Front
• Create Sacred Space with Stories
• Give Life to Values with Stories
• Social Media: New Tools Boost Marketing, Education, Community
• Power Your PowerPoint
• It's Never Easy: Delivering Bad News to Patients
• Who Touched Me? When Non-Verbal Cues Speak Louder than Words
• Sowing Solidarity: Keep Bishops in the Mix

Spreading Our Stories

• Ascension's Focus on Values
• Norwood Hospital's LifeBox
• Provena Health's New Ways
• Saint Elizabeth's Rich Brew
• Mercy's 'Mercy Moments'
• Avera Health's Daily Line-up

Feature

• 'They Did It. We Could Do It.'

Departments

• Editor's Note — Our Emotions, Our Inner Light
• Health Reform Update — Education is the Crucial Next Step
• Vision 2020 — Communication Strategies Vital to Vision, Mission
• Community Benefit — New Requirements, New Transparency
• Ethics — In Ethics of Right Relation, All are Responsible for All
• Canon Law — Dialogue and Consultation a Part of Church Law
• Mission and Leadership — New Media, New Ways to Be a Community of Care
• Book Review — Leadership In Healthcare - Essential Values And Skills
• Book Review — Reclaiming Catholicism - Treasures Old And New
• Book Review — Prayer: A Relationship Without Words
• Book Review — If We Must Dance, Then I Will Lead
• Prayer Service — The Power of God's Word