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July 01, 2013
The best end-of-life care is customized to the individual patient
While triumphs of medical science allow people to live years with chronic heart failure or other serious chronic disease, such treatment advances also have made it a lot harder for people in America to die a natural death, said Dr. Ira Byock.
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July 01, 2013
Compassionate care of those with life-limiting illness requires presence
In a "death-denying, death-defying" contemporary culture, Catholic care providers are called to better formulate a Christian response to the ill and frail facing decline, dependence and dying, said pediatrician Sr. Nuala Kenny, OC.
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July 01, 2013
CHA releases theology paper on membership criteria
In an overview of the first year of a three-year study to determine membership criteria for CHA — specifically, to determine whether for-profit and non-Catholic organizations can be CHA members — theologian M. Therese Lysaught told participants in a June 3 Innovation Forum during the 2013 Catholic Health Assembly here that several key areas calling for further theological development had emerged.
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July 01, 2013
Mercy, SSM donate breast cancer care through Gateway to Hope
Throughout the hot summer of 2012, Kimberly Smothers worked 50 to 60 hours a week in an air conditioner factory. She knew she had a lump in her breast but couldn't find the time to have it checked.
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July 01, 2013
Farm at St. Joe's cultivates community commitment to healthy living
To teach about the importance of healthy lifestyles in southeast Michigan, Saint Joseph Mercy Health System is building community not just at its hospitals, but at its farm.
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July 01, 2013
Sr. Amos calls health reform a 'first step' toward ministry's vision of care for all
Sr. Helen Amos, RSM, opened the 2013 Catholic Health Assembly on June 2 with a scene-setting keynote address, urging health care leaders to shape the future of health reform in the interest of people who could be "left behind or left out."
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July 01, 2013
Sr. Carol urges ministry to stay active in promoting insurance expansion
CHA President and Chief Executive Officer Sr. Carol Keehan, DC, told Catholic health care leaders gathered for the 2013 Catholic Health Assembly at the Anaheim Marriott Hotel that she'd like to be able to tell them "job well done" on health care reform and encourage them to take a breather.
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June 15, 2013
Keeping Up
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June 15, 2013
Sr. Judith Ann Karam, CSA, to become congregational leader, resigning as head of Sisters of Charity Health System
The Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, which is the founding religious community of the Sisters of Charity Health System, has elected Sr. Judith Ann Karam, CSA, as congregational leader.
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June 15, 2013
Environmental concerns have hospitals opting for greener cleaning solutions
A movement is afoot to detoxify hospital cleaning by implementing "green" cleaning practices and several ministry members are among its proponents.