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07/03/2025
H.R. 1 Undermines Health Care Access and Jeopardizes the Social Safety Net for Millions
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07/01/2025
H.R. 1 is a Moral Failure: Congress Prioritizes Wealthy First, Leaves Vulnerable Americans Behind
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06/23/2025
CHA Statement on Prior Authorization Practices
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06/16/2025
Orest Holubec named board chair of the Catholic Health Association's (CHA) Board of Trustees for 2025-2026
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Health Progress
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Summer 2025The Vatican’s Year of Jubilee, themed Pilgrims of Hope, began this past Christmas Eve and continues until the celebration of Epiphany on Jan. 6, 2026. This tradition of celebrating a jubilee year traces its roots to the Jewish custom of observing a jubilee every 50 years, during which enslaved people and prisoners would be freed, debts forgiven and God’s mercy made manifest. -
Summer 2025Mission for This Moment
According to the evangelist and physician Luke, Jesus articulated his mission when he was filled with the Holy Spirit after fasting in the desert for 40 days and enduring the temptation to forsake love for fame, fortune and power. -
Summer 2025Catholic Thought Centers on Expansive Compassion, Human Dignity in Immigration Response
Questions over immigration policy are increasingly prominent and morally fraught across Western democracies. Concerns over border security and fears of an overwhelming influx of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers were major themes in the 2024 U.S. presidential election; they have now become a key focus for the Trump administration, which has controversially carried out mass deportations without due process. -
Summer 2025Building Connection and Community in Caring for Creation
Pilgrims are seekers drawn to make pilgrimages. Pilgrimages are journeys to special and holy places, places that draw forth from within us a deeper sense of connection and belonging to something greater than ourselves. These places can be as far away as we wish, or as close as our backyards, as in my case, the acres of prairie land and woods known as Jubilee Farm. -
Summer 2025Sponsors Set Steadying Course With Eye on the Horizon
Catholic health care has been blessed by the ministry of sponsorship. Sponsors have guided, nudged, accompanied, encouraged and, yes, sometimes redirected the ministry through many moments of "thick fog." We are tempted to believe the uncertainty of our time is unique, but the veterans among us remind us that low visibility and headwinds have always been part of our story. -
Summer 2025Walking Each Other Home Through Pilgrimage
There is a beautiful painting in warm, pastel colors by the artist Dorsey McHugh of seven figures we see only from behind. They are male and female, young and old. They walk with their arms across each other’s shoulders or clasp hands, all traveling in the same direction. The work is titled, "Walking Each Other Home." -
Summer 2025
Portals of Prayer: Tending to the Spirit
It’s so easy to cede our time and attention to everyday pressures, commitments and responsibilities. And while there is a lot of focus on the importance of building resilience and avoiding burnout in Catholic health care settings, Health Progress wanted to share some of the ways people attend to and strengthen their spiritual lives. -
Summer 2025New Wave of Potentially Curative Treatment Offers Hope for Sickle Cell Disease: How Can We Eliminate Hurdles to Build on the Promise?
In December 2023, more than 100,000 people in the U.S. affected by sickle cell disease received what was poised to be life-changing news: The first potentially curative gene therapies were officially approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of sickle cell disease. -
Summer 2025Editor's Note — Summer 2025
Hope is active. It sounds passive, if you think about it in its dreamy sense — the feeling of wanting something to happen, or wishing for things to be different than they are. -
Summer 2025Mission — Together Along the Pilgrim Path
We live in a world where the pursuit of happiness is blurred by individualistic efforts to thrive, one where societal structures fail to inform or embody a communal vision of flourishing. It is difficult to envision a world where human potential is nurtured, affirmed and fulfilled — a place where infinite love shapes a shared reality. -
Summer 2025Community Benefit — Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefit: What Counts and Why It Matters
There is only one definition of community benefit: it is the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) definition. Other organizations, researchers and lobbyists, at times, will add or subtract categories to the way they define community benefit... -
Summer 2025Formation — Embracing Old Age And Our Future Selves
The headlines jumped off the screen. One paired the words, "Pope Francis" and the "Magisterium of Fragility."1 -
Summer 2025Thinking Globally — Catholic Social Teaching as a Compass for Catholic Health Care in a Fractured World
Now, perhaps more than ever, the world's most vulnerable populations are in the crosshairs of geopolitical turmoil, and leaders worldwide, including representatives of the Catholic Church, are calling us to action. -
Summer 2025Ethics — Forming Conscience in Health Care Settings
In medicine, ethical dilemmas are not theoretical; they are real and immediate. Questions about end-of-life care, reproductive technologies, or resource distribution don’t allow for spiritual autopilot. -
Summer 2025Health Equity — Racism, Poverty and Structures of Sin
Pope John Paul II wrote forcefully of the existence of structures of sin and our responsibility to correct them. “Structures of sin,” he wrote in the encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, “are rooted in personal sin, and thus always linked to the concrete acts of individuals who introduce these structures, consolidate them and make them difficult to remove..." -
Summer 2025Finding God in Daily Life - Summer 2025
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Summer 2025Servicio de Oración — Spiritual Pilgrimage of Hope: A Journey to Our Inner Sacred Space of Being (Spanish)
"La esperanza podría llamarse una memoria del futuro", según el difunto filósofo francés Gabriel Marcel. Esta cita favorita me inspira en los mejores momentos y me consuela en momentos de angustia. -
Summer 2025
Prayer Service — Spiritual Pilgrimage of Hope: A Journey to Our Inner Sacred Space of Being
“Hope … might be called a memory of the future,” according to the late French philosopher Gabriel Marcel. This favorite quote inspires me in the best of times and provides comfort in times of distress. -
Online ExtraAmid Federal Cuts, Crucial Global Health Programs Navigate Next Steps
At Shirati KMT Hospital in rural Northeastern Tanzania, 50% of the hospital's HIV/AIDS clinic personnel and support staff were let go in recent months due to the Trump administration's dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and freezing of funds earlier this year. -
Spring 2025A Theological Response to the Isolation of Medical Displacement
Illness, impairment and pain are displacing experiences, separating a person from their sense of self and their community. This separation can occur in many forms. In my own life, my impairment, a permanent brachial plexus injury from birth, can come up in jarring ways.
Advocacy Communications
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CHA letters to Congress
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07/01/2025
CHA Letter to House Opposing One Big Beautiful Bill
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06/30/2025
CHA Letter to Senate Opposing One Big Beautiful Bill
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06/25/2025
CHA Summary of Final Marketplace Integrity Rule
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06/12/2025
CHA Letter to Senate on HR 1
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