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December 01, 2013
Artist reclaims tranquil memories of snowy Newtown, Conn.
Cheryl Childers, a licensed medical social worker with Bon Secours St. Francis Health System in Greenville, S.C., recalls growing up in Newtown, Conn., "a sleepy little dairy town, never heard of before" Dec. 14, 2012, when Adam Lanza fatally shot his mother at home, then 20 children and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown before killing himself.
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December 01, 2013
CHP gives $2 million grant to CMMB for Haiti facility
Cincinnati-based Catholic Health Partners has given a $2 million challenge grant to the New York City-based Catholic Medical Mission Board for a health center that CMMB plans to build in Cotes-de-Fer, Haiti.
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December 01, 2013
Crowe Horwath assumes majority stake in CHAN Healthcare
Public accounting firm Crowe Horwath finalized a transaction to buy a majority stake in CHAN Healthcare, a business started by two Catholic health systems to provide internal audit services to health care organizations.
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December 01, 2013
CHE Trinity Senior Living Communities encourages seniors to eat together
CHE Trinity Senior Living Communities is encouraging older adults to grocery shop, cook and eat together. The idea is that by doing this, seniors can improve their health, save money and liven up their social lives.
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December 01, 2013
Catholic Health Partners transitions to public juridic person sponsor model
Cincinnati-based Catholic Health Partners has transitioned from sponsorship by its governance body called the Corporate Member made up of members of its sponsoring congregations, to a public juridic person sponsorship model.
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December 01, 2013
Partnership with Bon Secours promotes free vision care for homeless
For decades, Dr. Darrell Jervey, an ophthalmologist from Greenville, S.C., had been tending to the eye care needs of the poor in Haiti during volunteer mission trips through his church, Christ Church Episcopal in Greenville.
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December 01, 2013
Teens combat delirium in elderly patients at Holy Cross Hospital
Madison Herin, 16, says the most gratifying part of her volunteer position at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is the opportunity it gives her to make "deep personal connections" with the patients she visits.
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December 01, 2013
Seeking the spirit in administrative jobs
Many administrators at Catholic institutions first got into the work because they felt a calling, because they wanted to use their talents to care for, educate or assist others.
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December 01, 2013
Catholic relief organizations respond in Philippines after super typhoon
An international response including Catholic relief organizations mobilized to assist victims after a typhoon tore through the midsection of the Philippines island chain on Nov. 7, causing thousands of deaths and widespread devastation that hampered efforts to bring aid to survivors.
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December 01, 2013
Wheaton 'grows its own' physician leaders with development program
Under health care reform, many physicians will have to develop a new skill set. Increasingly, they will be practicing under delivery models focused on population health, accountable care and provider collaboration.