January-February 2011

Volume 92, Number 1

Special Section:
RX: Add Comfort — The Many Dimensions of Palliative Care

• Palliative Care: A Hallmark of Catholic Mission
• Palliative Care: What and Why
• Study: Early Palliative Care Helps Quality of Life
• From A Faith Perspective: Aging and Dying, a Time of Grace
• How Four Catholic Systems Approach Palliative Care
• No Patient Left Behind: Universal Screening for Palliative Needs
• Addressing Spiritual Pain
• Policy Changes May Help Palliative Care

Our Ministry

• Press Conference

Features

• Inside Francis House
• A Moral Compass: Blessed are the Poor

Departments

• Editor's Note — Comfort and Challenge
• Health Reform Update — Don't Let the Noise Fool You
• Vision 2020 — A Commitment to Anawim
• Spreading Our Stories — Community Mercy Health Partners Honors Heritages
• Mission and Leadership — Report Cites Need for Better Integrated Spiritual Care
• Ethics — Palliative Care Needs a Culture to Sustain It
• Community Benefit — New Assessment Tool
• Book Review — Care at the Close of Life
• Book Review — Conversations to Create Bridges, Help Maintain Hope
• Book Review — Making Health Care Whole
• Book Review — Palliative Care
• Letters — Readers Respond
• Prayer Service — Him Who Strengthens

July-August 2011

Volume 92, Number 4

Special Section:
Making it Work at Work

• Talent and Culture: Rungs to Success
• Atmosphere Unsettled around Workforce Trends
• Resistance to Change: Friend or Foe?
• Getting Physicians, Administrators on the Same Page
• Partnering with Doctors through Co-Management
• Age-Related Conflicts: The Generational Divide
• Whistling While We Work: Building a Happy Workplace
• Brainstorm: Employees Can Help You Innovate
• Burnout and Compassion Fatigue: Watch for the Signs
• Labor Relations: A Catholic Matter
• New Ground Rules Smooth Union Relations
• Manage Risk, Build a Just Culture

Features

• Catholic Hospitals on Best Places to Work List

Our Ministry

• Press Conference — Cardinal is Clear on Role for Bishops
• Thinking Globally — Harnessing U.S. Health Care in Service to Haiti

Ethical Perspectives

• Introduction — Ethical Perspectives on Health Care Reform
• Clearing the Brush
• The Individual Mandate

Departments

• Editor's Note — FDR: A Model Leader in Troubled Times
• Health Reform Update — When People Get Care, There's a Real Story in It
• Canon Law — Just Wages: It's in Church Law
• Ethics — Not Unique, Not Distinct — Yet Catholic?
• Book Review — God, Creation, and Climate Change
• Prayer Service — Our Community of Service With Others, for Others

March-April 2011

Volume 92, Number 2

Special Section:
A Look Ahead for Catholic Health Care

• Prognosticators Advice: Counter Risk With Innovation
• Amid Promise and Peril, Hold Mission High
• Transformational Trends Create Possibilities
• Stay in Control as Budgets Change
• Systems in the Act, Try Out ACOs
• Get Outside the Tent: Embrace Community
• The Common Good Calls for Balance, Limits
• Leaders Hand On the Tradition: More Questions, Needs Emerge

Features

• Leading Change: Know What to Expect in Times of Transition
• Formation: Connect the Practical to the Theological
• Mission: Good Business Practice Enhances Mission
• End Of Life: POLST Reflects Patient Wishes, Clinical Reality

Departments

• Editors Note — Keeping the Faith Under the Big Top
• Vision 2020 — Destination for the Journey
• Health Reform Update — Divisive Discourse Has Deep Roots
• Canon Law — New PJP Model 'A Leap of Faith'
• Ethics — Issues Beyond 'The Usual Suspects'
• Spreading Our Stories — Music and Mission Combine for an Evening of Aloha
• Book Review — After We Die
• Book Review — Caregivers Path to Copmpassionate Decision Making
• Prayer Service — Trust in Turbulent Times

September-October 2011

Volume 92, Number 5

Special Section:
Seeding Our Future

• Formation Opens Us to Gifts of the Spirit
• A Preview: CHA's Framework for Leadership Formation
• Making All Things New: Catholic Health Care, the Laity and the Church
• Formation in the Physician Practice: New Model Renews the Call to Health
• Servant Leadership: The Way Forward?
• Keeping Formation In-House Deepens Catholic Culture
• A Case Study: Formation Across the Workforce
• Leading from Within: The Ignatian Practice of Deep Listening
• Table Talk: Complex Questions Engage Leaders Forum

Features

• Vatican Expert Unpacks Canonical PJP Process

Our Ministry

• Thinlking Globally — Sponsor Formation: Ireland Adopts U.S. Model

Ethical Perspectives

• Comparative Effectiveness Research: A Threat to Patient Autonomy?

Departments

• Editor's Note — Kahn's Art Evokes Energy That Transforms
• Health Reform Update — Affordable Care Act: Another Success Story
• Mission and Leadership — Ministry Beyond Measure
• Community Benefit — How Community-Building Aligns With Public Health
• Ethics — Ramping Up Ethics' Role: It is at the Heart of Health Care Mission
• Canon Law — Anointing of the Sick: The How and Why
• Book Review — Why Stay Catholic? Unexpected Answers to a Life-Changing Question
• Book Review — Is God Still at the Bedside? The Medical, Ethical, and Pastoral Issues of Death and Dying
• Prayer Service — Opening Our Hearts to Those in Need

May-June 2011

Volume 92, Number 3

Special Section:
Caring for Kids: Pediatrics in Transition

• Our Future Starts Here
• Pediatrics Looks Ahead to the Medical Home
• Your Business is Our Business: Pediatrics, Public Health
• The Sisters Knew: A Child Needs a Home
• Mercy Adapts Services to Region's Needs
• Parents and Young Patients as Partners in Care
• Hospital Care — A Child's-eye View
• Coordinated Perinatal Care Pays off for Mother and Child
• Program Puts 'Physical' Back in Education
• Childhood Obesity is a Family Fight: One Hospital's Way
• Pediatric Safety Focus Earns Kudos
• Beyond Borders: Pediatric Care Goes Overseas
• Team-Teaching About Palliative Care for Kids

Features

• Child Trafficking: What Catholic Health Care Needs to Know
• Religion, Spirituality and the Search for Common Ground

Departments

• Editors Note — Catering To Our Future
• Community Benefit — IRS Form 990, Schedule H: Address These Questions Up Front
• Community Benefit — IRS Form 990, Schedule H: A Deep Dive: Ready, Set, Go
• Community Benefit — Beyond the IRS: How Does Your Public Report Stack Up?
• Ethics — Breaking Bonds at What Expense?
• Mission and Leadership — At Mother's Bedside, Lessons Hit Home
• Book Review — Next Generation Leadership
• Book Review — Enter the Story
• Prayer Service — 'Let the Children Come to Me'

November-December 2011

Volume 92, Number 6

Special Section:
Embracing Our Cities

• Urban Health Care: Disparities Abound
• Rubbing Out Violence: Critical to U.S. Health
• Primary Care Supercenter Serves Buffalo
• Data Network Transforms Camden Care
• Mercy St. Vincent Takes on the Neighborhood
• Knowledge is Key to Healthy Pregnancies
• Hospital Design: From Barrier to Connector
• Bon Secours Asks Neighbors to Help Redesign Community
• As Inner-City PJP, St. Anthony Expands

Features

• Table Talk Part 2: Tomorrows Leaders Tackle Hard Questions
• Needle Exchange: The Moral Framework

Our Ministry

• Press Conference — Interview with John W. Bluford III
• Thinking Globally — Update on CHA's Global Outreach

Ethical Perspectives

• The Ethics of Cost Control

Departments

• Editor's Note — Hold Fast to All We Value
• Spreading Our Stories — Mission Statement Points the Way
• Health Reform Update — Making Us Sick: Data Shows the Foreclosure Crisis Affects Health
• Mission and Leadership — Justice and the Mission
• Community Benefit — Spend Time Learning How to Use "Healthy People 2020"
• Ethics — Nurturing Ethicists for the Future
• Book Reviews — American Catholic Hospitals
• Book Reviews — The Future of Healthcare
• Book Reviews — Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care
• Prayer Service — The Transcendence of Hope