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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.
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March 17, 2025Fluid management programs at Mercy cardiovascular clinics keep heart patients out of hospitals
George Largent can’t praise the staff of the Mercy cardiovascular clinic in Joplin, Missouri, enough. “They’ll pray with you, cry with you, laugh with you, and hold your hand. And then tell you to stop eating salt,” he said, laughing.
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March 17, 2025How to prevent violence in schools and communities? Be a green dot
Green Dot initiative in several Kentucky high schools is supported by CommonSpirit Mission and Ministry Fund
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March 13, 2025HSHS plans $270 million investment to expand, remodel Wisconsin hospitals
Hospital Sisters Health System leaders plan to invest $270 million to expand and remodel its two hospitals in Green Bay, Wisconsin, over the next few years.
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March 13, 2025‘Fight like heck’ to preserve Medicaid, protect U.S. health care, say speakers at AHA rural health care conference
In an opening plenary session, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and AHA Board Chair Tina Freese Decker explained that the health and well-being of millions of Americans are at risk.