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July 01, 2012
Art program helps teens process feelings, avoid risky behavior
During her sophomore year at Westville High School, the normally outgoing Abbie Strebing began to withdraw from her family and friends, and from the activities she once loved to do.
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July 01, 2012
Boeing donates to Mercy charity care programs
The Boeing Company plans to donate $1 million over four years to Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy to improve health care access for low-income patients in the St. Louis area.
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July 01, 2012
Assembly ends with exhortation to care for the poor and powerless
Catholic health care leaders attending the Catholic Health Assembly here were sent off with a powerful closing session on the value of justice: justice as expressed in the Gospels, developed in the Catholic social tradition and lived out in Catholic health care today.
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July 01, 2012
Panelists square off on politics of health care and religion
E.J. Dionne Jr. and Ramesh Ponnuru sat down with CHA's new chairman, Joseph Swedish, and engaged in a gentlemanly session of point-counterpoint during a Catholic Health Assembly keynote about politics.
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July 01, 2012
CHA members vote to give membership study three more years
At the annual Membership Assembly, CHA-member representatives voted to amend the association's bylaws to allow existing members that have changed or may change their corporate structures — or their successors — to remain eligible for association membership for three years while a study of membership criteria continues.
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July 01, 2012
Panelists encourage collaboration on community needs assessments
It was probably their vow to stick together and keep meeting that turned partners in a 2010 Corpus Christi, Texas, community needs assessment initiative into a play book for collaboration.
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July 01, 2012
Common values cement relations between Saint Marys, Mayo Clinic
When a devastating tornado ripped through Rochester, Minn., in 1883, Sr. Alfred Moes had a dream.
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July 01, 2012
Eight young leaders honored for career achievements in ministry
At the 2012 Catholic Health Assembly awards banquet, CHA recognized eight young ministry executives as Tomorrow's Leaders for demonstrating the zeal and commitment needed to guide and sustain the ministry's healing mission in the future.
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July 01, 2012
Msgr. Fahey influenced public, health policy toward the aged
Msgr. Charles Fahey has worked in the university classroom, boardrooms and the halls of Congress. No matter the venue, he has delivered the same message: The needs of the frail elderly are medical, economic and social.
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July 01, 2012
Sr. Popko was change agent in the evolution of Catholic health care
Ask a cadre of Sr. Kathleen Popko's closest colleagues to describe her best attributes, and these are a few of their responses: She is truly selfless. She is indefatigable. She is highly intellectual, analytical and organized.