Ascension Health has teamed with a private equity firm to create a new type of enterprise: an acquisitive, equity-based, for-profit Catholic health care system.

The recession has put a strain on a lot of wallets, and many people who once gave generously to philanthropies have had to cut back or discontinue their giving.

In early April, a group of internal candidates for Catholic Health East's top positions will gather on a wooded estate near Philadelphia to ponder the stewardship ahead.

Simplified signage is in the works for St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in Cleveland.

A coalition including CHA launched a consumer website this month to inform people about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Many years ago when her children were young, Lu Heiling's next-door neighbor in suburban Minnesota was an elderly woman who lived alone.

Pediatric patients of St. Mary's Health System of Evansville, Ind., have a powerful new support system: They're on the prayer lists of thousands of Catholic students and teachers.

A behavioral health facility at St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud, Minn., has received a second $1 million gift from its top benefactor.

A donation from a Burbank, Calif., family will help to equip a neuroscience institute opening in the spring at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank.

The Ensign Group of Mission Viejo, Calif., has acquired CHRISTUS St. Joseph Villa of Salt Lake City, the only Catholic, not-for-profit senior care facility in Utah.

Catholic health care's roots run deep in communities across the U.S., in some cases all the way back to the 1700s and 1800s.