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October 01, 2014
Hospitals form a front line against prescription opiate abuse
My pain medication was stolen. I left my pill bottle in another city. My doctor is on vacation. Your honor, I have a valid prescription for oxycodone. Medical professionals who deal with patients pitching for pain-relieving narcotics hear the first three stories all the time.
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October 01, 2014
Medical residents and Guatemalan medical students trade places
When two U.S. medical residents traveled in the spring to Santo Tomas in Guatemala, as trailblazers for the new Providence Health & Services Educational Exchange, they learned just how difficult it can be to reach rural populations with health care services.
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October 01, 2014
Ministry Health Care provides pastoral education to fill pipeline for chaplaincy jobs
In a rural area where it had been difficult to recruit qualified chaplains, Ministry Health Care in central and northern Wisconsin created its own solution by starting a clinical pastoral education program based out of Ministry Saint Clare's Hospital in Weston.
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October 01, 2014
Dignity Health establishes system-wide foundation to expand programs' impact
It is common for even the largest health systems in the U.S. to concentrate fund-raising and fund-giving activities almost entirely at a local level. This approach has individual hospital foundations building relationships with local givers, securing donations and bequests and hosting fund-raising galas, charity golf games, celebrity appearances and the like.
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October 01, 2014
Café offers monthly respite for memory loss patients, caregivers
When caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease, it can be challenging to find a social activity that provides a relaxing opportunity to interact with others without the risk of embarrassment or stigma
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October 01, 2014
Grant to fund the Hoffman Breast Center at Saint Francis
Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., will name its breast health center on Oct. 23 in honor of the Maximilian E. & Marion O. Hoffman Foundation, which has awarded a $1.5 million grant to benefit the center. The grant will be paid over four years.
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October 01, 2014
St. Elizabeth's to build replacement hospital in O'Fallon, Ill.
St. Elizabeth's Hospital of Belleville, Ill., plans to build a $300 million, five-story replacement hospital and ambulatory care center in O'Fallon, Ill., which is 7 miles from its current location.
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October 01, 2014
Postretirement life includes hospital turnaround 2,700 miles from home
As he prepared to leave his post as chief operating officer of Cincinnati-based Catholic Health Partners at the end of 2010, A. David Jimenez wasn't sure what to call the next phase of his life.
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October 01, 2014
Sylvania Franciscan Health to join CHI
Catholic Health Initiatives and Sylvania Franciscan Health signed a definitive agreement announced Sept. 10 for Toledo, Ohio-based Sylvania Franciscan Health to join Englewood, Colo.-based CHI. Leadership for the health care systems say the decision came at a time of rapid change in health care, when many smaller health systems are joining larger organizations to create integrated systems of care in a geographic region.
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October 01, 2014
Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital draws on God as 'loving support' following shooting
On July 24, Richard Plotts, a psychiatric patient, pulled a gun during his afternoon appointment at a wellness center on the Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital campus in Darby, Pa. He shot and killed his caseworker, Theresa Hunt, 53, and wounded his psychiatrist, Dr. Lee Silverman.