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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.
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January 15, 2015
Saint Francis Care in Connecticut plans to join Trinity Health
Hartford, Conn.-based Saint Francis Care will become part of Trinity Health as Trinity Health forms a regional, nonprofit Catholic health care system in New England that also will include another Trinity Health system, the Sisters of Providence Health System in Springfield, Mass.
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January 15, 2015
New 'microsites' on CHA website mark centennial, celebrate caregivers
CHA has a series of "microsites" to mark the association's centennial, chronicle CHA's history, invite people to pray with the ministry, celebrate the people of Catholic health care and provide information on the annual Catholic Health Assembly in June in Washington, DC. The microsites are at chausa.org/100.
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January 15, 2015
HHS proposes increased disclosure of services covered under plans
The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed changes to the rules covering what must be included in the summary of benefits and coverage document for health insurance plans.
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December 09, 2014
Caritas Internationalis seeks ministry's support in response to Ebola epidemic
Caritas Internationalis' Msgr. Robert Vitillo provided Catholic Health World with an update about the organization's response to Ebola in West Africa and how CHA members can support that effort.
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December 09, 2014
Mercy of Buffalo, N.Y., serves as 'port in the storm' during historic blizzard
When the Buffalo, N.Y., area was hit with nearly 8 feet of snow over a three-day period in mid-November — nearly the amount of snow that the region gets over a full snow season, according to The Associated Press — staff of Catholic Health facilities in the Buffalo area "braved the most treacherous conditions to get to our hospitals, nursing homes, health centers and patients' homes, and worked countless hours to provide uninterrupted care," Catholic Health President and Chief Executive Joe McDonald said in a memo to staff.