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April 03, 2025Public health expert urges care providers to limit use of plastics to necessities
Dr. Philip J. Landrigan says production, use and disposal of plastics are a global threat to the environment and health.
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April 02, 2025Catholic Health invites staff to document sacred encounters
At hospitals, seemingly routine happenings, viewed in a spiritual light, can be recognized as sacred encounters.
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April 02, 2025CHA's sponsorship and mission services department revitalizes its programming
Goal is to better equip ministry for the future.
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April 01, 2025CHI Memorial Hospital gets to the heart of reducing readmission rates for cardiac patients
Program hinges on coordination within hospital and communication with patients.
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April 01, 2025Sr. Barbara Schamber played key role in ushering in lay sponsorship for Providence St. Joseph
Sr. Barbara Schamber, SP, died March 23 at her home in Olympia, Washington. She had been a Sister of Providence for 62 years and had held multiple leadership positions in her congregation as well as governance and sponsorship roles with Providence St. Joseph Health.
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March 25, 2025Grant helps staff at Massachusetts memory care facility learn how to better help patients
More than 50 staffers now certified through the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners
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March 20, 2025SSM hospital learns about, joins community aid efforts at Functional Friday events
ST. CHARLES, MO. — After they packed boxes with goods, loaded the boxes onto carts, pushed the carts across the street and carried their cargo down to the basement food panty at St. Peter Catholic Church, the three dozen or so SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital — St. Charles and Wentzville, Missouri, staffers looked around as if to say: “What next?”
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March 20, 2025CHRISTUS Health to close 174-bed hospital in San Antonio
CHRISTUS Health is set to close its 174-bed hospital in San Antonio by April 25. The Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word had opened CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital — Medical Center in 1869.
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March 19, 2025St. Mary’s in Richmond, Virginia, to complete $370 million expansion
Later this year, Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, is set to begin construction on a $370 million project that will add a tower and renovate existing facilities.
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March 18, 2025Mission director discusses delicate balance of workplace safety, human dignity in mental health crises
In the gospel story of the Gerasene demoniac, Jesus encounters a man who could not be bound by shackles and chains or otherwise subdued. The man wandered among the tombs and the hillsides, crying out and cutting himself with stones.