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June 01, 2013
Therapy program helps patients short circuit obsessive-compulsive behaviors
A pregnant Jennifer Noetzel knew she needed serious help managing her obsessive-compulsive disorder when she insisted her husband exchange all the gifts she had received at a baby shower for the exact same ones.
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June 01, 2013
Workshop teaches patients with chronic disease to maximize their abilities through self care
When Barbara Tucker enrolled in a chronic disease management workshop three years ago, she was confined to a wheelchair and frequently was unable to talk due to the effects of polymyositis, an inflammatory disease of the muscles, and scleroderma, which causes a hardening of connective tissue.
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May 15, 2013
Keeping Up
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May 15, 2013
LSU, Our Lady of the Lake in Baton Rouge, La., complete transition
A public-private collaboration between Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and Louisiana State University went into effect in April, bringing the LSU Health Sciences Center's inpatient and outpatient services, graduate medical education and clinical training in Baton Rouge to Our Lady of the Lake.
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May 15, 2013
Providence Holy Cross receives $7 million bequest
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, Calif., received its largest gift ever in April, a more than $7 million trust bequest from the estate of Julian and Gladys Saunders.
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May 15, 2013
IRS seeks comments on proposed rules for community health needs assessments
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 requires nonprofit hospitals to assess community health needs and take an active role in improving the health status of their communities.
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May 15, 2013
Gone fishing (and gardening) in Oahu
Sr. Geraldine Ching, OSF, contributed the $1000 stipend she received as the 2012 recipient of CHA's Concilia Moran Award toward the purchase of the growing bed and fish tank.
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May 15, 2013
Goldsbury Foundation donates $20 million
The Children's Hospital of San Antonio Foundation has received a $20 million grant from the Goldsbury Foundation; it is the largest single gift in the 144-year history of the hospital's parent, the CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System.
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May 15, 2013
SSM Health Care to invest $180 million in suburban St. Louis
SSM Health Care — St. Louis plans to expand and improve its offerings in St. Charles County west of St. Louis County, with a complete redesign of its SSM St. Joseph Hospital West campus in Lake St. Louis, a new emergency department and outpatient center at SSM St. Joseph Health Center - Wentzville, a new outpatient campus in eastern St. Charles and additional urgent care sites.
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May 15, 2013
Public housing residents stabilize lives with help of Mercy St. Vincent
Nine years ago, the Madonna Homes public housing complex in Toledo, Ohio, had a revolving door of residents, a 25 percent occupancy rate and a reputation as an unsafe and undesirable place to live.