| CHA: Ministry voices needed now to protect Medicare and Medicaid |
As the congressional "super committee" charged with reducing the nation's debt continues its work, CHA is encouraging members to be vocal about protecting poor and vulnerable persons and ensuring that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remains intact.
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| Ministry addresses systemic contributors to hunger |
It is common for Catholic health systems and facilities to tackle hunger concerns in their communities. They normally do so by providing emergency food aid to pantries or to individual families, and typically through food drives.
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| Operation Walk gets New Jerseyans back in action |
Maria Ferreira was told time and time again she was too young for a hip replacement surgery. Too bad her hip never got the word. Last year, at age 55, Ferreira could not tie her shoes, climb the stairs or sit at the dinner table.
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| For alcoholics, a bed to sleep it off, or a shove toward treatment, sobriety |
Every town has these sad souls — chronic alcoholics, most of them homeless, who get hauled to the nearest emergency room by frustrated police. |
| Sisters of the Holy Family anticipate foundress' beatification |
The Vatican is reviewing the sainthood cause of the foundress of the Sisters of the Holy Family of New Orleans, and the congregation of black women religious anticipates that a beatification could happen as early as fall 2012.
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| Climate change is an environmental justice issue, experts say |
Experts believe climate change is contributing to the increasing severity and frequency of extreme weather events around the world, including heat waves, floods and droughts.
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| Starting with their staffs, hospitals promote healthy choices |
Just because people work in the health care field does not mean they are healthy.
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| Keeping Up |
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