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January 15, 2014
Keeping Up
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January 15, 2014
CHI, Baylor to open new hospital on medical school's Houston campus
Catholic Health Initiatives and the Baylor College of Medicine announced Jan. 7 plans to open a joint venture, acute care hospital on the medical school's McNair Campus in Houston.
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January 15, 2014
St. Mary's Good Samaritan opens replacement hospital
St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital of Greensboro, Ga., has completed a $40 million, 25-bed replacement hospital. The new critical access hospital opened Nov. 25.
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January 15, 2014
St. Dominic Health Services conditions young athletes for safer play
St. Dominic Health Services in Jackson, Miss., has teamed with two professional football players with local roots to develop a sports-conditioning center for aspiring young athletes.
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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.