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August 01, 2013
Daughters of Charity Health System aligns South Bay hospitals, urgent care in California
The Daughters of Charity Health System of Los Altos Hills, Calif., has created a new Santa Clara County market, with a strategy to align its hospitals and urgent care center located in the south San Francisco Bay area.
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August 01, 2013
Nashville's Saint Thomas begins renovation project
Saint Thomas Hospital of Nashville, Tenn., has started a four-year, $110 million renovation project that will add a six-story inpatient tower to the campus. Administrators said the project will improve critical care and surgical services.
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August 01, 2013
Mount Carmel, OSU Wexner to affiliate
Two Columbus, Ohio-based health care organizations, CHE Trinity Health's Mount Carmel Health System and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, announced an affiliation on June 18, saying they will build on their existing relationship to improve access, quality and coordination of care and to lower costs.
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August 01, 2013
A pause for prayer
St. Elizabeth Hospital staff in Gonzales, La., sprang into action when they received word shortly after 8:30 a.m., June 13, of an explosion at a chemical plant located about eight miles away in Geismar, La.
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August 01, 2013
Loyola Chicago to accept undocumented immigrants at Stritch School of Medicine
Leaders at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine have received inquiries from interested students around the country since becoming the nation's first medical school to publicly welcome applications from undocumented immigrants in response to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which was launched under an executive action by President Barack Obama last year.
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August 01, 2013
Alexian Brothers spreads message that childproof homes include furniture anchors
A family tragedy has turned into a new life's calling for Lisa Siefert. With help from the Alexian Brothers Health System in Arlington Heights, Ill., Siefert has taken on the task of educating parents and doctors on the importance of securing infant furniture and televisions to avoid accidents like the one that killed her 2-year-old son Shane in 2011.
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August 01, 2013
Saint Peter's promotes disease prevention and wellness to diocesan priests
It isn't easy to convince members of the clergy, whose focus is on helping others, to make their own health a priority.
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August 01, 2013
Senior peer counselors offer guidance in matters of love, loss and life
As a volunteer senior peer counselor for Providence Health & Services in Southern California, Joan Barrie helps older adults grapple with common problems that arrive with age — the loneliness that follows a spouse's death, the anger that accompanies the loss of independence, the depression that follows a life-changing diagnosis.
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August 01, 2013
Young and old make loving connections at intergenerational centers
For Judy Sweetland, Fridays are special. Sweetland, 74, is among about 400 older adults who live at the Providence Mount St. Vincent community in Seattle.
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August 01, 2013
Get Covered America campaign kicks off
A major public awareness and enrollment campaign is taking shape as the Enroll America coalition works to educate Americans on new health care coverage options.