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June 01, 2012
Sponsors deliberating how best to preserve ministry's identity
The rapidly changing health care environment is challenging sponsors with new questions about how best to ensure that the ministry maintains its identity.
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May 15, 2012
Keeping Up
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May 15, 2012
'Listening campaign' helps facilities tap into community needs
It can be difficult for a hospital's community benefit staff to ensure they are getting a complete picture of what community members want and need.
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May 15, 2012
St. John's in Oxnard, Calif., celebrates centennial
St. John's Regional Medical Center of Oxnard, Calif., held a Mass in September to mark the 100th anniversary of the Sisters of Mercy arriving in Oxnard to establish health care services.
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May 15, 2012
Community Mercy to shutter Springfield, Ohio, long-term care center
By June 1, Community Mercy Health Partners of Springfield, Ohio, will close an eldercare facility it operates in Springfield. It is assisting its 65 residents in transitioning to other long-term care campuses.
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May 15, 2012
Franciscan sister promotes health, economic development in Haiti
When Sr. Fidelis Rubbo, OSF, first came to Haiti in 1999, she intended a brief stay.
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May 15, 2012
Commentary: ACA insurance expansion may save thousands of lives
On March 12, as required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the federal government released regulations that will determine how state health-insurance exchanges will work.
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May 15, 2012
Ascension Health takes up challenge to cut its energy use by 20 percent
Damian Skelton keeps an equally sharp eye on hallway lightbulbs and 1,300-ton air-conditioning chillers.
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May 15, 2012
Proposed bylaw change will waive certain CHA membership restrictions for three years
Representatives of CHA-member organizations will vote next month on a bylaws amendment that will allow existing CHA members that have changed or may change their corporate structures to remain eligible for CHA membership for three years while a study of membership criteria continues.
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May 15, 2012
Church Leaders Meet with Ministry Executives in Rome
CHA's annual Ecclesiology and Spiritual Renewal Program for Health Care Leaders in Rome calls participants to explore the spirituality of leadership and gain perspective on U.S. health care as a ministry of the universal Roman Catholic Church.