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August 01, 2011
Tap into church networks to improve care for elders, presenters advise
In the post-reform health care environment, providers are going to face a heady challenge: They'll need to provide better care, to more people, for less money.
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August 01, 2011
Physician's order deemed appropriate for clarifying patient wishes
Increasingly, clinicians across the U.S. are using a specific type of physician's order to clarify, in advance of a medical event, people's preferences for receiving life-sustaining treatments including resuscitation and intubation. But some ethicists have wondered whether this tool is compatible with Catholic principles.
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August 01, 2011
Joint Commission releases standards for advanced certification in palliative care
This June, the Joint Commission released standards for its new Advanced Certification Program for Palliative Care.
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August 01, 2011
New CHA videos show how health reform law helps real people
CHA has made available a series of four videos profiling people who have been helped by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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August 01, 2011
Quick and creative thinking needed in a disaster
Two-plus months after a mile-wide, multi-vortex tornado devastated Joplin, Mo., and ravaged its St. John's Regional Medical Center, the hospital is focused on reestablishing services in the area and on preparing to rebuild its campus.
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August 01, 2011
St. Joseph's shows compassion for county inmates, disrupted families
Trudging up the staircase to the county jail, Rhonda Brown fretted for a family member locked inside. She wondered who might see her there. She didn't know what to do, or how to begin.
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August 01, 2011
Shreveport's Community Renewal program reconnects neighbors
It was while reading a British historian's work on the rise and fall of the world's great civilizations that Mack McCarter, then a pastor in West Texas in 1981, had what he now calls his "aha moment."
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August 01, 2011
Since the assembly . . .
It was wonderful to see so many members of our ministry at the Catholic Health Assembly in Atlanta.
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July 01, 2011
Keeping Up
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July 01, 2011
Achievement Citation - STAR participants refresh their souls while writing their resumes
For people who are unemployed over a long term, finding a job is rarely their sole concern. Many also face painful emotions, difficult spiritual questions, unrelenting financial challenges.