Many people know that St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American saint, started orphanages, schools and hospitals to serve downtrodden Italian immigrants around the turn of the 20th century. What they may not know is that Mother Cabrini had terrific real estate negotiating skills that she used to acquire plum property in major cities — buildings and land she put into use in service of the poor.

The hospital environment can feel alien and confusing to any patient, but it can feel especially uncomfortable to a person from a nonnative culture.

When it comes to health and wellness, the deck is often stacked against kids in low-income families.

In communities with large numbers of uninsured people, even those with full coverage can have difficulty obtaining care and being satisfied with the quality of care they receive, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine.

God calls upon his people to protect both the Earth and its inhabitants, and there are many ways to do so, according to Sr. Catherine O'Connor, CSB, and Gary Cohen, the presenters of the Ash Wednesday webinar from CHA, "Faithfully Healing the Earth: Climate Change and Catholic Health Care."

A $5 million loan from San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West will help community clinics in California to continue their operations as they wait for delayed payments from the state government.

Federal efforts to stimulate the nation's economy got Kevin Shrake thinking about how his Belleville, Ill., hospital might do its part to advance economic recovery.

A Des Moines, Iowa, college is making it easier for people who recently lost their jobs to transition into a health care career. Mercy College of Health and Sciences is giving tuition discounts to workers laid off in the last six months.

Flexibility is the name of the game for the bare-bones teams that staff medical vans. They set up in a different location almost every day of the week, their schedule taking them to their regions' medically underserved areas.