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February 01, 2015
St. Francis de Sales nears opening as teaching hospital
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti The new St. Francis de Sales Hospital here is one of the first public buildings to be completed since much of this Haitian capital city was destroyed by a massive earthquake five years ago, and the sense of gratitude and achievement against great odds was palpable at the hospital's official dedication Jan. 15.
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January 27, 2015
Hospital Sisters Health System joins clinically integrated network in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin divisions of Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System have joined Integrated Health Network of Wisconsin, a clinically integrated network in Wisconsin that already includes four other Catholic health systems.
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January 16, 2015
Police learn to de-escalate crises involving the mentally ill
Yellowstone County Deputy Sherriff Matt McCave responded to a call in November on the outskirts of Billings, Mont., to assist a father in search of his adult daughter, who is severely bipolar and who was off her medication. In a situation that the father told McCave had played out repeatedly over the last dozen years, the daughter had vanished, and the father wanted to find her to get her some mental health help.
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January 16, 2015
Lightning, and then a life saved
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January 15, 2015
St. Leonard takes social approach to promote active engagement in life
At St. Leonard in Centerville, Ohio, residents, staff and community members can join clubs and classes for walking, reading, playing cards, creating art, biking, learning martial arts, discussing national issues, dancing, swimming or studying the Bible.
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January 15, 2015
Some employees have dual roles as medical interpreters at Bon Secours Richmond
Andres Velasco, 25, and his family immigrated to Richmond, Va., from El Salvador when he was 12 years old. Initially, no one in his family spoke English. As Velasco and his brothers began to learn the language in school, they found themselves interpreting all sorts of things for their parents — directions for opening bank accounts, questions on job applications, instructions from doctors and nurses working on Bon Secours Health System's Care-A-Van, a free clinic on wheels that traveled to the family's church parking lot to serve the uninsured or underinsured.
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January 15, 2015
Integrative medicine draws from many care traditions
At the Integrative Medicine Center at Mercy Medical Center, Dr. Suzanne Bartlett practices aspects of medicine differently than she used to.
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January 15, 2015
Keeping Up
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January 15, 2015
Sisters of Charity Health System assumes ownership of senior villa
Cleveland-based Sisters of Charity Health System assumed full ownership of the Bedford, Ohio-based Light of Hearts Villa on Dec. 31. The 90-apartment Light of Hearts offers independent living, assisted living, short-term respite care and memory care.
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January 15, 2015
Mission Outreach ships supplies to combat Ebola
On Dec. 18, volunteers and Hospital Sisters Mission Outreach staff loaded a 40-foot shipping container in Springfield, Ill., with medical supplies and personal protective equipment to combat Ebola in Sierra Leone. Dr. Patrick Turay, the medical director of Holy Spirit Hospital, a Catholic facility in Makeni, Sierra Leone, requested the specific items included in the shipment from Mission Outreach, a nonprofit ministry of the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis.