Seeking New Solutions
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Lessons From Abroad for Catholic Health Care
The development of health care systems across the world has been a dynamic process shaped by a myriad of political, economic, social and religious factors.
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Where Mission Meets the Market: Solving Health Care Failures That Hurt People
My first health care encounters came at an early age, not because of a single illness, but because constant medical intervention was woven into the fabric of my childhood. I grew up in a four-generation home comprised of my great-grandmother, my grandfather, my mother, my twin brother and myself.
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Strengthen Disaster Preparedness by Understanding Risk
Emergencies, disasters and catastrophes have been present on Earth since its creation and will continue for however long our planet survives.
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Catholic Health Systems Aim to Break Cycle of Gun Violence and Accidents
Maurice Washington always carried a gun on the streets of Richmond, Virginia. Two of his friends were shot to death in front of him. He served time in prison for armed robbery. When he talks about guns, people listen.
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Making Things Better: Mercy Transforms the Nursing Experience
In my earliest days as a nurse, I learned that care is more than clinical expertise; it’s presence, compassion and empathy. I remember standing beside a mother who, after hours of labor, faced an unexpected cesarean section.
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Access Begins With a Connection: How Simple Innovations Transform Care and Reach the Vulnerable
Across the country, the people who need care most are often the ones who struggle to access it. For Ascension, expanding access is both a health care imperative and an expression of our Catholic mission to honor human dignity and serve all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
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'I Have Loved You': Catholic Health Care's Role in Applying Dilexi Te to Medicaid’s New Community Engagement Requirements
As states and health systems prepare for sweeping changes to Medicaid under legislation that passed last year, including new mandatory “community engagement” (work, education, training and related activities) for many adults outlined in H.R. 1, Catholic health care leaders have a distinctive lens to bring to implementation: the moral vision articulated in Pope Leo XIV’s 2025 apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te (I Have Loved You).
Departments
Editor's Note — Spring 2026
BETSY TAYLOR
Mission — Go and Do Likewise: A Tradition of Caring for Our Immigrant Brothers and Sisters
DENNIS GONZALES, PhD
Ethics — (Xeno)Transplantation and an Integral Ecology
SAM BERENDES
Formation — The Power of Retreats: Where Spirit Shapes Leadership
DARREN M. HENSON, PhD, STL
Community Benefit — Why the IRS Community Benefit Standard for Tax-Exempt Hospitals Has Endured
STEPHEN M. CLARKE, JD
Prayer Service — Cultivating a Discerning Disposition
KARLA KEPPEL, MA, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MISSION SERVICES, CHA
Pope Leo XIV — Finding God in Daily Life
Thinking Globally — Ethical Global Recruitment: A Call to Embrace Our Shared Responsibility
BRUCE COMPTON and CAMILLE GRIPPON