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July 01, 2014
Trinity Senior Living incorporates Catholic ethics into decisions that impact residents
Executives managing senior housing regularly face weighty questions involving residents that defy easy answers.
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July 01, 2014
Emerging leaders honored for their service to ministry
Across the Catholic health ministry, young leaders with a passion for the mission are honing skills to help guide the ministry in the future. CHA celebrates up-and-comers who show strong leadership capabilities and a personal commitment to Catholic health care with its Tomorrow's Leaders recognition.
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July 01, 2014
Lanier supports St. Vincent's mission with high energy and soft sell
When Jane R. Lanier talks about her proudest accomplishments, she doesn't bring up the state-of-the-art centers for heart, cancer and family medicine at St. Vincent's HealthCare in Jacksonville, Fla., or the millions of dollars she has raised. She focuses instead on the connections she's made.
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July 01, 2014
Sr. Mary Jean Tague serves wherever the need is greatest
At age 76, Sr. Mary Jean Tague, DC, could savor the memories of an adventuresome clinical and administrative career dedicated to easing the plight of the medically underserved at home and abroad.
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July 01, 2014
Called to lead, Sr. Rocklage draws on faith, humor and business savvy
Take a quick survey of Sr. Mary Roch Rocklage's closest associates, and they'll characterize some of her outstanding leadership qualities. . .
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July 01, 2014
Dispensary of Hope collects unused medication, distributes it to needy
David Troutman, 64, is a former Presbyterian minister who had a 30-year career in religious book publishing and distribution. In 2006, he lost his job. In 2009, a tornado "danced on top" of the roof of his home. He'd kept up his home owners' insurance, which paid for that extensive repair, but he depleted his savings before finally landing a job at a supermarket earlier this year.
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July 01, 2014
Female execs say ministry could promote more women
Patricia Maryland had been in senior management at the Cleveland Clinic for about 15 years when, around 1997, Kevin Lofton — who was then the head of a university health network — told her, "With your experience and capabilities, you should really be running a health system."
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July 01, 2014
From uncertainty to hope: observations from a most eventful year
As is traditional for the CHA chair-person, I traveled to Rome this spring with a group of executives to attend CHA's Ecclesiology and Spiritual Renewal Program for Health Care Leaders. Layered on this incredible experience was a perfectly timed opportunity to witness the historic canonization of two popes.
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July 01, 2014
Catholic tradition inspires health care leaders in service to the poor
Fourteen years ago, I was fortunate to go with a group of Catholic health care leaders to Assisi, Italy. Sr. Laura Wolf, OSF, whose congregation grew out of the Franciscan tradition, blessed us with a thorough description of the life of St. Francis, his conversion under the Cross of San Damiano and his time spent in the company of those who were sick.
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June 15, 2014
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