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January 15, 2011
Correction
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January 15, 2011
Ministry facilities ease the strain for working parents
It can be a real struggle for parents to juggle work and home demands. Performances on both fronts can suffer when stressed out workers fret about work when they are home and home when they are at work.
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January 15, 2011
Saint Joseph Mercy Health System upgrades hospitals, ambulatory care sites
Saint Joseph Mercy Health System of Ypsilanti, Mich., is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in its hospitals and ambulatory care facilities in Southeast Michigan to respond to the changing landscape of U.S. health care.
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January 15, 2011
Sr. Modde provided canonical expertise to ministry leaders
Sr. Margaret Mary Modde, OSF, died Dec. 9 in Rochester, Minn., at age 90.
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January 15, 2011
Street Medicine in Pittsburgh
Carrying a backpack stocked with medicine, bandages and pamphlets about free clinic care, Dr. Jim Withers walks the riverbanks and underpasses here searching for people who sleep under bridges and in hidden encampments.
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January 15, 2011
Mercy begins phased opening of downtown Baltimore facility
Mercy Medical Center of downtown Baltimore has opened a $400 million facility that will better support quality care delivery and patient preferences.
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January 15, 2011
CMS seeks ideas to improve patient transitions, reduce rehospitalizations
Frequent rehospitalizations can be costly to hospitals, private payers, the government and patients.
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January 15, 2011
Ministry leaders chart the future of senior care
The health reform law that is reshaping health care finance and delivery in the U.S. is expected to significantly influence how care is delivered to elderly patients inside and outside of hospitals.
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January 15, 2011
CHA stands by its vision for health reform
However one characterizes 2010, it was certainly not boring. The struggle to get health reform passed, the early work on implementation, the struggle with misinformation campaigns, the lawsuits challenging reform and finally an election that dramatically changed the balance of power in Congress kept us focused.
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May 01, 2004
CHA observes 90th anniversary of 'working together'
Monday, July 19, 2004, marks the 90th anniversary of a gathering at which Catholic health ministry leaders came together to respond to technological advances that were changing health care delivery in the United States.