The number of uninsured women seeking free prenatal care from the Maternity Outreach Mobile Clinic has fallen this year over last as the recession cut deep into the bone in Maricopa County and families pulled up stakes to search for work elsewhere.

Recognizing that negativity, tension and stress can undermine people's well-being, Saint Francis Medical Center in Grand Island, Neb., is finding ways to help its employees and other community members to accentuate the positive instead of dwelling on the negative.

While Catholic health systems and facilities across the nation share a common mission to heal in Christ's name, each has its own way of carrying out that mission.

During this Advent season, with its joyful anticipation and longing, we are invited once again to welcome the Savior.

CHA is presenting a series of networking webinars to provide a forum for ministry members to discuss timely issues in environmental responsibility and sustainability.

As Catholic Health World went to press, Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center in South Bend, Ind., was planning a Dec. 14 move to its new facility in Mishawaka, Ind.

Marisa Mowat does not accept the inevitability inherent in the cliché "accidents happen."

Two years after St. Mary's Hospital of Passaic, N.J., moved to a replacement campus, the campus' shrine recently followed suit.

By mid-2012, PeaceHealth of Bellevue, Wash., plans to build a health care campus on Washington's San Juan Island that will include a 10-bed critical access hospital and a medical center offering primary care, specialty care, diagnostic services and an emergency room.

Three CHA member hospitals will participate in a comprehensive initiative to improve patient safety and quality through enhanced training of the next generation of physicians.

The search for gold in Northwestern Ontario is the unlikely inspiration for a contest sponsored by CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, La.

Resurrection Health Care of Chicago plans to sell two of its Chicago-area hospitals to Vanguard Health Systems within six months.

Next month, St. Joseph Health Services of Rhode Island and Roger Williams Medical Center will affiliate under a newly created management company called CharterCare Health Partners.

Executives, sponsors, trustees and all associates in the Catholic health ministry are invited to help shape the preferred future for the ministry by participating in the Vision 2020 initiative.

Kaleb Helwig and daughter Kinley took advantage of a webcam-equipped computer in the lobby of St. John's Children's Hospital.

While for many, "There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays," as the classic tune attests, circumstances often dictate that people end up elsewhere on Christmas.