CHA and its members were profoundly disappointed to learn that the definition of a religious employer was not going to be broadened in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' rules for preventive services for women.

As caregivers to patients with chronic or end-stage illnesses and their families, they daily help people who may be debilitated by pain or anxiety navigate advanced care planning, end-of-life decision making and all the complex feelings that come with these choices.

Emergency shelters are typically not set up to meet the needs of older adults. They tend to be noisy places, full of young families and utterly lacking in privacy.

SSM Health Care has opened an $84 million, 50-bed hospital in Janesville, Wis., about 40 miles southeast of Madison, Wis.

To hear siblings Brendon and Brooke Geils talk, it makes perfect sense: healthy children raising money to help sick children.

CHA has posted its financial information for the fiscal year ended June 30 on the association's website.

St. Louis-based Ascension Health has named executives to its senior leadership team.

Thomas Nehring, 58, died Jan. 20 in Albuquerque, N.M. He was recently named chief mission officer for the newly merged Provena Health-Resurrection Health Care in Chicago.

Saint Joseph Health System of Lexington, Ky., has opened a $60 million, 40-bed hospital to replace its 51-year-old facility in Mount Sterling, Ky.

Mercy health system of Chesterfield, Mo., is now operating a southwest Missouri community hospital under a 50-year lease agreement that the system said enables it to improve health care access in a region heavily impacted by a May tornado.

An outpouring of employee and community support is enabling St. Joseph's Hospital of Tucson, Ariz., to move closer to starting its chapel construction project.