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November 15, 2012
Daughters of Charity Health System coordinates care with San Jose doctors
Providers may still be waiting to see where federal reforms will lead the American health care system when it comes to payment models or expanded access.
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November 15, 2012
Ministry providers part of Iowa alliance to improve care delivery
Two Catholic health care providers are among the four Iowa health systems that have formed an alliance aimed at better coordinating how care is provided, improving care quality and safety, making health care delivery more efficient and reducing costs.
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November 01, 2012
Corrections
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November 01, 2012
Keeping Up
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November 01, 2012
Mercy's high school clinic keeps students, teachers on campus and on task
When Cattrina Hopper got sick last year, she tried to tough it out. Hopper, 18, doesn't have health insurance. "I kind of had to live with it," she said. "Then I had to go to the hospital, so we ended up with a hospital bill."
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November 01, 2012
Pilgrims heading to Rome for St. Francis sister's canonization
As Catholic Health World went to press, groups of pilgrims from Hawaii and New York were en route to Rome to take part in religious ceremonies marking the canonization of Blessed Marianne Cope, a Sister of St. Francis who helped to establish or bolster health care facilities in New York and Hawaii in the late 1880s.
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November 01, 2012
Covenant urges Massachusetts voters to reject physician-assisted suicide
Covenant Health Systems of Tewksbury, Mass., is among the organizations opposing the Massachusetts Death With Dignity Act, an initiative slated for the Nov. 6 ballot in Massachusetts.
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November 01, 2012
Ascension Health in talks to sell Carondelet Health of Kansas City
St. Louis-based Ascension Health is in talks to sell the two-hospital system Carondelet Health of Kansas City, Mo., to HCA Midwest Health System also in Kansas City.
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November 01, 2012
CHRISTUS plans joint venture with university health system in Chile
CHRISTUS Health of Irving, Texas, is in talks with a Catholic health system in Chile to form a joint venture early next year.
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November 01, 2012
CHI supports airlift of surplus medical equipment to Hanoi
When St. Anthony Central Hospital in Denver shut its doors last year, replaced by a new facility a few miles to the west, administrators promised to send all of its used equipment to its "sister hospital" — Bach Mai Hospital in Vietnam's capital city of Hanoi.