Sr. Carol Keehan, DC, CHA president and chief executive officer, delivered testimony on the Catholic health ministry’s commitment to community benefit activity Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee. "We do not provide community benefits in order to prove we deserve tax exemption," she told the committee, "we do so because of who we are."  (Photo: John Dean)

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At their September 7, 2006, meeting, Sr. Carol Keehan, CHA president and chief executive officer, and Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, discussed CHA's community benefit guidelines and the broad adoption of them by CHA's membership. Sr. Carol gave Sen. Grassley a copy of the association's Guide for Planning and Reporting Community Benefit. (Photo: John Dean)

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During their September 7, 2006, meeting, Sr. Carol Keehan, CHA president and chief executive officer, and Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, reviewed CHA's 2006 document, A Guide for Planning and Reporting Community Benefit. Sen. Grassley said that CHA's guidelines "show a deliberate effort to do things right. I will be urging other hospitals to use this as a template because I think this is an honest approach." (Photo: John Dean)

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Following their private meeting, Sr. Carol Keehan, CHA president and chief executive officer, and Sen. Charles Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, met with health care and religious media. Sen. Grassley acknowledged the work of CHA-member organizations "to do things right," and Sr. Carol thanked the Senator for his support of CHA's community benefit initiative. (Photo: John Dean)

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