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It was wonderful to see so many members of our ministry at the Catholic Health Assembly in Atlanta. The speakers were well received by attendees, and we are looking at the evaluations to see how we can make next year's assembly even better.
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| Shreveport's Community Renewal program reconnects neighbors |
It was while reading a British historian's work on the rise and fall of the world's great civilizations that Mack McCarter, then a pastor in West Texas in 1981, had what he now calls his "aha moment."
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| St. Joseph's shows compassion for county inmates, disrupted families |
Trudging up the staircase to the county jail, Rhonda Brown fretted for a family member locked inside. She wondered who might see her there. She didn't know what to do, or how to begin.
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| Quick and creative thinking needed in a disaster |
Two-plus months after a mile-wide, multi-vortex tornado devastated Joplin, Mo., and ravaged its St. John's Regional Medical Center, the hospital is focused on reestablishing services in the area and on preparing to rebuild its campus.
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| New CHA videos show how health reform law helps real people |
CHA has made available a series of four videos profiling people who have been helped by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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| Joint Commission releases standards for advanced certification in palliative care |
This June, the Joint Commission released standards for its new Advanced Certification Program for Palliative Care. The standards were released in advance of the program's Sept. 1 start date to give hospitals time to assess their inpatient palliative care programs and prepare for the certification process.
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| Physician's order deemed appropriate for clarifying patient wishes |
Increasingly, clinicians across the U.S. are using a specific type of physician's order to clarify, in advance of a medical event, people's preferences for receiving life-sustaining treatments including resuscitation and intubation.
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| Tap into church networks to improve care for elders, presenters advise |
In the post-reform health care environment, providers are going to face a heady challenge: They'll need to provide better care, to more people, for less money.
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| Volunteers in Bon Secours program journey with rape victims |
In the post-reform health care environment, providers are going to face a heady challenge: They'll need to provide better care, to more people, for less money.
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| Saint Joseph Ann Arbor sows produce seeds to grow nutrition awareness |
Within the past decade, farmers' markets have sprouted inside the lobbies and in parking lots of hospitals around the U.S. But Saint Joseph Mercy Health System in Michigan has taken the trend toward promoting local fresh food as a source of good nutrition one step further — it operates its own farm on four acres of its 364-acre Saint Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor campus.
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