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April 01, 2011
Sober housing gives addicts a better chance to succeed
The letter starts out like this: "None of us, myself included, had any idea where we would go after our inpatient treatment. When Mercy (Recovery Center) asked me what my plan was after release from detox, I responded 'I have no idea, I have no place to go.'
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April 01, 2011
Lincoln, Neb., leaders want everyone to have a medical home
Jaci Augustin of Lincoln, Neb., a maintenance worker without medical insurance, is receiving charity treatment for breast cancer. What she had trouble finding was routine care for high blood pressure.
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April 01, 2011
Ascension Health developing best methods to reduce or eliminate birth complications
The vast majority of mothers in the U.S. give birth with no serious complications. But sometimes, things do go wrong in the delivery room.
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March 15, 2011
Keeping Up
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March 15, 2011
Ministry's collections demonstrate wit, grit and devotion
Catholic health care's roots run deep in communities across the U.S., in some cases all the way back to the 1700s and 1800s.
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March 15, 2011
For-profit system buys CHRISTUS St. Joseph Villa
The Ensign Group of Mission Viejo, Calif., has acquired CHRISTUS St. Joseph Villa of Salt Lake City, the only Catholic, not-for-profit senior care facility in Utah.
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March 15, 2011
Burbank family gives $1 million to Providence
A donation from a Burbank, Calif., family will help to equip a neuroscience institute opening in the spring at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank.
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March 15, 2011
Philanthropist gives second gift to St. Cloud facility
A behavioral health facility at St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud, Minn., has received a second $1 million gift from its top benefactor.
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March 15, 2011
Catholic students pray for St. Mary's young patients
Pediatric patients of St. Mary's Health System of Evansville, Ind., have a powerful new support system: They're on the prayer lists of thousands of Catholic students and teachers.
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March 15, 2011
Benedictine enlists parish volunteers to keep seniors independent
Many years ago when her children were young, Lu Heiling's next-door neighbor in suburban Minnesota was an elderly woman who lived alone.