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September 01, 2012
Sponsors of Exempla to modify governance agreement; SCLHS to gain more control
The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System and the Community First Foundation plan to modify the terms of their cosponsorship of Exempla Healthcare.
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September 01, 2012
Providence Everett hospital banks 'liquid gold' for sick newborns
At first she chalked it up to her daughter Sydney being colicky after breast-feeding. But when Sydney let loose "the most awful noise," Stacie Quatsoe, 34, of Mt. Vernon, Wash., knew something else was wrong.
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September 01, 2012
Mercy treats young sexual assault victims tenderly
For young victims of physical and sexual abuse, the assault is sometimes just the first trauma. Often they suffer again in the hospital, where they are examined and treated; in the police station, where they have to repeat their stories; and in the courtroom, where they come face to face with their abusers.
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September 01, 2012
CHI, PeaceHealth to form regional system in Northwest
Catholic Health Initiatives and PeaceHealth have signed a nonbinding letter of intent to combine their respective operations in the Northwest and create a new regional health care system serving Washington, Oregon and Alaska.
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September 01, 2012
Panelists explain how varying sponsor models help preserve Catholic identity
During a session at CHA's annual "Pre-LCWR Assembly Sponsorship Conference," panelists described three distinct sponsorship models in use in the ministry and explained how sponsors employ each model to ensure their ministries continue on in a mission-based way.
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August 15, 2012
Keeping Up
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August 15, 2012
Outreach program in Kenya aims to reduce AIDS' impact, prevalence
The HIV/AIDS epidemic has had a more drastic impact on sub-Saharan Africa than on any other region of the world, with more than 22 million currently infected with the disease and more than 14 million children losing at least one parent to HIV/AIDS.
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August 15, 2012
Dignity Health acquires occupational medicine network, urgent care system
San Francisco-based Dignity Health is acquiring a Valencia, Calif.-based occupational medicine and urgent care system that had been looking for a partner to help it expand.
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August 15, 2012
Surplus recovery organizations gather to consider formal collaboration
During a mid-July meeting here, leaders of organizations that ship donated medical equipment to health care providers in the developing world took early steps toward creating a formal network aimed at increasing the efficiency, professionalism and supply chain systems expertise of the sector.
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August 15, 2012
St. Joseph's Highland to build replacement campus by mid-2013
St. Joseph's Hospital, a critical access hospital in Highland, Ill., has broken ground on a $60 million-plus replacement campus about 1 mile away from the existing hospital.