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August 01, 2011
Volunteers in Bon Secours program journey with rape victims
Since no two victims of sexual assault react in exactly the same manner, the emotional support they require both during and after a forensic examination can vary greatly.
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August 01, 2011
Tap into church networks to improve care for elders, presenters advise
In the post-reform health care environment, providers are going to face a heady challenge: They'll need to provide better care, to more people, for less money.
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August 01, 2011
Physician's order deemed appropriate for clarifying patient wishes
Increasingly, clinicians across the U.S. are using a specific type of physician's order to clarify, in advance of a medical event, people's preferences for receiving life-sustaining treatments including resuscitation and intubation. But some ethicists have wondered whether this tool is compatible with Catholic principles.
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August 01, 2011
Joint Commission releases standards for advanced certification in palliative care
This June, the Joint Commission released standards for its new Advanced Certification Program for Palliative Care.
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August 01, 2011
New CHA videos show how health reform law helps real people
CHA has made available a series of four videos profiling people who have been helped by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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August 01, 2011
Quick and creative thinking needed in a disaster
Two-plus months after a mile-wide, multi-vortex tornado devastated Joplin, Mo., and ravaged its St. John's Regional Medical Center, the hospital is focused on reestablishing services in the area and on preparing to rebuild its campus.
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August 01, 2011
St. Joseph's shows compassion for county inmates, disrupted families
Trudging up the staircase to the county jail, Rhonda Brown fretted for a family member locked inside. She wondered who might see her there. She didn't know what to do, or how to begin.
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August 01, 2011
Shreveport's Community Renewal program reconnects neighbors
It was while reading a British historian's work on the rise and fall of the world's great civilizations that Mack McCarter, then a pastor in West Texas in 1981, had what he now calls his "aha moment."
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August 01, 2011
Since the assembly . . .
It was wonderful to see so many members of our ministry at the Catholic Health Assembly in Atlanta.
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July 01, 2011
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