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Healing the Multitudes
Catholic Health Care's Commitment to Community Health

This resource explains why the Catholic health ministry is called to take a leadership role in addressing the social determinants of health and outlines the key components of a comprehensive strategy that organizations need to consider when undertaking this work.

Since a comprehensive community health improvement strategy touches the organization’s clinical interventions, business processes and structures and community relationships, this resource would be helpful to a wide audience including those who work in mission, community benefit, population health, physician relations, human resources, purchasing, and strategic planning.

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Healing the Multitudes
Catholic Health Care's Commitment to Community Health: A Resource for Boards

This resource explains why the Catholic health ministry is called to take a leadership role in addressing the social determinants of health and the board's key role in making this work a strategic focus of their organization.

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Healing the Multitudes Catholic Health Care's Commitment to Community Health PowerPoint Template

This PowerPoint is one you can use in your organization to facilitate discussion around your organization’s efforts to make community health a strategic priority

Healing the Multitudes - Social Determinants of Health and Catholic Tradition: A Reflection & Integration Resource for Boards

This reflection guide, a companion piece for the Healing the Multitudes booklets, provides reflective exercises and facilitation guidance to help engage health care leaders on how this activity — addressing the social determinants of health — is an important part of Catholic social tradition.

Healing the Multitudes: 
Social Determinants of Health Video

This six-minute video highlights the roots of Catholic health care ministry’s commitment to seek out the needs of a community as part of our tradition and actions of our founding congregations. It features Sr. Barbara Moore, Ph.D., a members of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet who is a former Ascension sponsor and whose ministry has spanned education and health care—all under the umbrella of seeking justice for all; John Fialka, author of the book Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America, and former reporter with the Wall Street Journal in its Washington D.C. bureau; and Julie Trocchio, senior director of community benefit and continuing care at the Catholic Health Association.