In health reform, the goal isn't simply to extend coverage to the uninsured, and it isn't simply to control costs — not that either of those is simple. Another crucial goal is to improve quality.

This is a critical time for our nation — our national economy and each family's personal economy are seriously threatened.

With demand for charity care rising at Catholic health systems and facilities nationwide, ministry administrators are under ever more pressure to offset those costs while maintaining services, ministry leaders told Catholic Health World.

There are two things oncologist Robert Quadro never forgets when he is about to tell a patient bad news — Kleenex and his watch.

Federal public health officials are asking providers including primary care physicians, clinics, nursing homes and hospitals to prepare now for the return of the H1N1 flu epidemic this fall and to stay up to date on flu information.

This summer, artist Stan Herd created crop art of the St. Francis Health Center logo in a large grassy area on the Topeka, Kan., hospital campus.

Have you recently had more than four drinks on one occasion? Ever needed a drink to start the day? These are some of the questions that substance-abuse screeners asked patients in the emergency room at Mercy Health Center in Oklahoma City.

CHA has selected steering committee members and a consultant to guide the association's Vision 2020 project, an initiative to outline the preferred future for the Catholic health ministry in the next decade.

Catholic Health Initiatives of Denver plans to sell three of its hospitals to Trinity Health of Novi, Mich., in the next several months; and Trinity plans to combine those facilities with one of its own hospitals to form a regional system.

Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System of Lenexa, Kan., has made an agreement that would make it the sole sponsor of Denver's Exempla Healthcare.

There are two things oncologist Robert Quadro never forgets when he is about to tell a patient bad news — Kleenex and his watch.