Alegent Health of Omaha, Neb., is working with churches and synagogues throughout its service area to determine how they can partner to improve the health of their congregants.

The statue, the joyous life-size figure of a 7-year-old boy with his arms outstretched, greets all visitors at the front entrance of a new building on the campus of Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center in Sioux Falls, S.D.

It's late on a weekend night. In the Mission Hospital trauma center in Mission Viejo, Calif., six teens and an adult are playing a lively game of Outburst. The phone rings and the game stops.

Since Cover the Uninsured Week began in 2003, the nation's hospitals and health care providers have been leaders in the campaign to raise awareness of the need for health care reform.

It may not be intuitive for hospital administrators to involve the mission department in campaigns to improve care quality, but it is a smart thing to do, according to two quality experts who presented during a mid-February CHA webinar, "The Mission Imperative of Quality."

Through a two-year-old effort at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., employees are taking spiritual care into their own hands, creating the programs they think will work best in their own departments.

During a seminar sponsored by the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville, Ky., community members learned that their hometown may be a hub for human traffickers.

San Antonio's CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital kicked off its 50th anniversary celebration last month with a birthday bash for patients, staff and physicians.

For several decades, a gap has been widening between what it costs to meet the needs of elderly religious and their congregations' ability to pay these costs.

In a sun-drenched nook of the Nazareth Living Center, Sr. Christine Looze, CSJ, is completing a 1,500-piece puzzle of a boat at sea.