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March 15, 2014
Typhoon Haiyan
I was privileged to spend the first week of February in the Philippines with a delegation from Catholic Relief Services and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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March 15, 2014
Catholic Health Partners transforms behavioral health services
Cincinnati-based Catholic Health Partners has reenvisioned how it provides behavioral health services. The system is a year and a half into work to standardize evidence-based treatment across continuums of care.
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March 15, 2014
Navigators show patients how to access care
When Medicaid-insured and uninsured patients seek primary care in the emergency department, the uncompensated costs of their care can be significant for hospitals.
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March 01, 2014
Keeping Up
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March 01, 2014
Sisters of the Holy Cross entered nursing in America's bloody Civil War
The Sisters of the Holy Cross of Notre Dame, Ind., had no nursing ministry nor any nursing training in 1861 when Fr. Edward Sorin asked them — at the Indiana governor's request — to care for wounded Civil War soldiers in Kentucky.
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March 01, 2014
Nine ministry members earn Magnet recognition in 2013
Nine ministry hospitals received recognition in 2013 from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association, for providing high-quality patient care and excelling in nursing practice.
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March 01, 2014
Lingering scents connect babies and parents during separations
Newborns, including the sick babies in neonatal intensive care units, are soothed by the voices of their parents and the smell of their mothers.
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March 01, 2014
Washington state regulators to evaluate hospital affiliations based on service impact
The Washington State Department of Health has revised its certificate of need and licensing rules to allow for the department to have increased involvement in the strategic moves of health care providers in the state and to require increased transparency when it comes to disclosing hospital policies around reproductive health, the end of life, and other areas.
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March 01, 2014
Four-pronged approach preserves care access on San Juan Island
When PeaceHealth's Jim Barnhart thinks about what upwards of a dozen community leaders accomplished on rural San Juan Island, Wash., the often-quoted adage of anthropologist Margaret Mead comes to his mind: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
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March 01, 2014
Advocates press Kentucky legislature for indoor smoking bans
The U.S. Surgeon General's 2014 report, "The Health Consequences of Smoking," describes the epidemic of smoking-related diseases over the past 100 years as one of the nation's "greatest public health catastrophes" and bemoans the fact that 19 percent of adult Americans still smoke tobacco.