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November 01, 2012
Dignity Health leads the way in use of pigment-free plastics
Sr. Mary Ellen Leciejewski, OP, doesn't know why it is that, at some point in the past, someone decreed that bedpans should be mauve.
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November 01, 2012
Forum advances equity in health care reform implementation
There has always been a strong ethical case for eliminating race-based disparities in health access, treatments and outcomes. Now, a compelling and even urgent business case can be made as well.
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November 01, 2012
Trinity Health and Catholic Health East in talks to consolidate
Trinity Health and Catholic Health East are pursuing a consolidation that would create a new organization with annual revenues of about $13.3 billion and assets of about $19.3 billion.
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October 15, 2012
Keeping Up
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October 15, 2012
Providence partners with Freelancers Union on customer-driven health plan
When consumers in Oregon go shopping for health care insurance in the new marketplace created by health care reform, one of their choices will be an insurance co-op product that uses profits for customers' benefit.
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October 15, 2012
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System seeking new partners for children's hospital
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System leaders have confirmed their commitment to establish a freestanding children's hospital in San Antonio but said they are seeking new partners for the project now that negotiations have come to an end with another organization they had been courting.
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October 15, 2012
St. Joseph, Hoag advance plan to link Southern California facilities
St. Joseph Health system of Orange, Calif., and Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian of Newport Beach, Calif., are negotiating an affiliation that would integrate their Southern California facilities into a regional health system.
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October 15, 2012
CHI's St. Vincent weighs affiliation with university health center
St. Vincent Health System and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences are considering an affiliation aimed at expanding health care access, lowering costs and improving quality.
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October 15, 2012
CHI forms venture capital team to invest in strategic priorities
Catholic Health Initiatives is forming a venture capital group based at the system's Englewood, Colo., headquarters to identify partnerships, investment opportunities and growth strategies that advance CHI's mission of improving health care delivery.
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October 15, 2012
Vatican declares Carmelite foundress venerable
The Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints has decreed that Mother Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory, O CARM, is venerable.