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March 01, 2012
Ascension Health entities said to pursue partnerships
As Catholic Health World went to press, St. Louis-based Ascension Health Care Network and Ascension Health were pursuing partnerships in the northeastern U.S.
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March 01, 2012
St. Joseph's Paterson campus expansion nearly complete
By spring, St. Joseph's Healthcare System of Paterson, N.J., plans to complete a $250 million expansion and renovation project that administrators said would help meet growing demand for inpatient and outpatient care.
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March 01, 2012
New Mercy Des Moines structure pairs administrators with physicians
Mercy Medical Center of Des Moines, Iowa, has reorganized its leadership structure to better align physicians with administrators and to ensure physicians are integrally involved in planning and decision making.
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March 01, 2012
Magnet Recognition Program designees for 2011
Ministry providers were among the health care organizations that a nurse credentialing organization honored last year through its Magnet Recognition Program.
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March 01, 2012
Hospital Sisters' quilts show harmony of mission among diverse contributors
The Hospital Sisters Health System now has visual testaments to the diversity of its ministry, in the form of two newly created art quilts with each block representing one of its hospitals or affiliates.
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March 01, 2012
Doctors enthused about Providence partnership
In October, when a new partnership was first announced between doctors in the Los Angeles region and Providence Health & Services, Southern California, board members of the joint venture — an effort to contain costs and measure quality — had a relatively modest membership goal.
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March 01, 2012
Bon Secours' life coaches guide the uninsured to health services
After her brother's fourth epileptic seizure in one day, Shelly Dozier called an ambulance and headed for the hospital.
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March 01, 2012
Doctors' anxiety may impact end-of-life care
Doctors aren't immune to feeling apprehensive in the face of their patients' terminal illnesses.
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February 15, 2012
Surge of donations advances St. Joseph's chapel project in Tucson
An outpouring of employee and community support is enabling St. Joseph's Hospital of Tucson, Ariz., to move closer to starting its chapel construction project.
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February 15, 2012
Mercy assumes operational control of Carthage, Mo., hospital
Mercy health system of Chesterfield, Mo., is now operating a southwest Missouri community hospital under a 50-year lease agreement that the system said enables it to improve health care access in a region heavily impacted by a May tornado.