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May 01, 2012
Benedictine Health System Foundation makes seniors' wishes come true
A day at the ballpark. A meal with the family. Tickets to see a favorite band. For most people, these simple pleasures are within easy reach.
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May 01, 2012
School for autistic children is 'great fit' for Mercy Oklahoma
One of 3-year-old Nathan Small's favorite activities these days is an improvised game called "Who is this?"
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May 01, 2012
Ascension Health Alliance partnering in Cayman Islands 'health city'
St. Louis-based Ascension Health Alliance is partnering with an Indian hospital developer on an approximately $2 billion venture that will establish a for-profit "health city" in the Cayman Islands.
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May 01, 2012
Agree to disagree? Not before engaging in vigorous debate
No one told writer E. J. Dionne Jr. that polite society never talks religion or politics in mixed company.
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April 15, 2012
Keeping Up
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April 15, 2012
Wheaton taps into employees' passion for environmentalism
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare and its facilities have identified many ways that they can reduce their impact on the environment. All require staff effort — and in many cases, behavior change — to implement.
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April 15, 2012
Ascension Health Alliance unit starts group purchasing organization
A subsidiary of St. Louis-based Ascension Health Alliance has launched a group purchasing organization that system leaders said will help cut supply costs and waste at health care facilities.
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April 15, 2012
Supreme Court takes up health reform; voters weigh in with public demonstrations
Advocates on both sides of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act brought their messages to the Supreme Court late last month, as justices heard lawyers articulate arguments that will help the court determine the future of the two-year-old law.
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April 15, 2012
Dispensary expands efforts to funnel surplus medications to underserved
A nonprofit dispensary that collects surplus pharmaceuticals and then distributes them to clinics for people in need is asking for the ministry's help to expand the scope of its work.
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April 15, 2012
Fr. O'Rourke was one of the nation's most accomplished ethicists
Fr. Kevin D. O'Rouke, OP, died March 28 at age 85. He served the ministry as a health care ethicist for four decades, emerging as one of the nation's foremost thinkers in bioethics.