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January 15, 2014
Residents of rural Kennebec, S.D., raise 112,000-plus for clinic
Just over a year after Kennebec, S.D. — population 280 — lost its only health care site, the new Avera Medical Group Kennebec Area Clinic has opened in its place.
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January 15, 2014
Hand-washing monitoring system at SSM St. Mary's is impossible to ignore
The community surrounding Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., is 50 percent Hispanic, with a large African-American population and growing pockets of recent Asian immigrants from Bhutan, Nepal and Myanmar.
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January 15, 2014
Saint Francis Hospital trains staff to honor community's diversity
The community surrounding Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., is 50 percent Hispanic, with a large African-American population and growing pockets of recent Asian immigrants from Bhutan, Nepal and Myanmar.
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January 15, 2014
Regenerative medicine holds promise, ethical challenges
Regenerative medicine, the process of creating living tissue to repair or replace tissue or organ function lost due to age, disease, damage or congenital defects, holds great medical potential, even as a Roman Catholic perspective requires close study of related ethical considerations, said Fr. Kevin FitzGerald, a Jesuit and research associate professor in the Georgetown University oncology department's division of biochemistry and pharmacology.
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January 15, 2014
Federal rules and cuts threaten critical access hospitals' viability, CHI executives say
Health care providers nationwide are closely watching Congress and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to see how decisions impacting health care funding and regulations will play out in the coming months.
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January 15, 2014
How do you improve the health of a population? In Baton Rouge, they're working on figuring it out
On board two gleaming mobile clinics — known by locals as the "blue buses" — fifth grader Maleik Owens got linked to support he needed.
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December 15, 2013
Sr. Carol Keehan, DC, is Opus Prize finalist
The Opus Prize Foundation, a group that funds faith-based work to solve social problems, honored Sr. Carol Keehan, DC, CHA's president and chief executive officer, as one of three finalists for its annual humanitarian award, the Opus Prize.
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December 15, 2013
Americans want 'kind' health care, Dignity survey reveals
Kindness is a top priority for Americans when it comes to health care; and people are willing to switch providers, pay more and travel further to receive "kind" health care.
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December 15, 2013
'In His Image' provides medical care to Syrian refugees
A team of doctors with ties to St. John Health System in Tulsa, Okla., recently returned from a medical relief trip to Iraqi Kurdistan where they provided care to hundreds of Syrians who are among the millions displaced by war in their country.
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December 15, 2013
SSM Health Care transitions to public juridic person sponsor model
St. Louis-based SSM Health Care has transitioned from sponsorship by its founding congregation, the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, to sponsorship by a public juridic person.