| BEST Age exercise programs help frail seniors achieve independence |
It was not for nothing that long-term care facilities became known as rest homes. |
| We still have much to do to get good health reform |
Many are rejoicing that we have gotten farther in health reform than we have ever gotten in our history. This is progress, but it is not success. |
| Flexibility, creativity, respect key to retaining nurses |
Today's nurse shortage is only expected to worsen, and countless health care experts are trying to figure out how to change this trajectory. |
| Seton's medical school affiliation could mitigate doctor shortage |
The Seton Family of Hospitals in central Texas has a new agreement with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center that will double the number of residents working in its hospitals in and around Austin. |
| Vision 2020 participants consider drivers of systemic change in health care |
Ministry leaders who gathered here recently for a workshop to begin defining the preferred future for Catholic health care, got a sneak peak of what people in 2020 might experience in terms of options and challenges to accessing care. |
| CHI creates national foundation office, names its president |
Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives has created CHI Foundation, a national office that will support its hospitals' foundations. |
| CHI gift helps nuns to renovate houses destroyed by Hurricane Katrina |
A group of 75 nuns from across the U.S. converged upon New Orleans and nearby St. Bernard Parish, La., last month to help residents to rebuild homes destroyed four years ago by Hurricane Katrina. |
| Exempla board agrees to changes giving Sisters of Charity more control |
The board of directors of Denver-based Exempla Healthcare has agreed to governance changes that will give one of the system's sponsors, the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System, greater management control of Exempla's three-hospital network. |
| St. Elizabeth Healthcare sells old Covington, Ky., campus |
St. Elizabeth Healthcare of Covington, Ky., has sold property that it vacated this summer. The buyer is an investor group that plans to develop the site as a long-term care/community services campus. |
| Trinity Health's Swedish recognized for promoting diversity, culturally competent care |
Joseph R. Swedish, president and chief executive of Trinity Health, pointed with pride to the high priority his Novi, Mich.-based system gives to workplace diversity when he accepted the CEO Diversity Leadership Award from Diversity Best Practices at an Oct. 6 event in Washington. |
| Picchi named executive director of Supportive Care Coalition |
Tina Picchi, a palliative care practitioner and health care leader with a background in spiritual care, is the new executive director of the Supportive Care Coalition: Pursuing Excellence in Palliative Care. |
| Culture change work at St. Joseph involves developing employees |
Over the last several years, St. Joseph of the Pines in Southern Pines, N.C., has been transitioning from an institutional model of care to a more person-centered approach. |
| Sr. Patricia Eck, CBS, to lead congregation's newly formed international leadership team |
The Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours is restructuring and will be run as a single international organization rather than as separate provinces, as it was in the past. |
| Amid crushing poverty, hope is the currency of heroes |
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere, a place where one would expect hope to be in short supply. |
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