Recent Articles
View All Articles-
May 15, 2012
Ascension Health takes up challenge to cut its energy use by 20 percent
Damian Skelton keeps an equally sharp eye on hallway lightbulbs and 1,300-ton air-conditioning chillers.
-
May 15, 2012
Proposed bylaw change will waive certain CHA membership restrictions for three years
Representatives of CHA-member organizations will vote next month on a bylaws amendment that will allow existing CHA members that have changed or may change their corporate structures to remain eligible for CHA membership for three years while a study of membership criteria continues.
-
May 15, 2012
Church Leaders Meet with Ministry Executives in Rome
CHA's annual Ecclesiology and Spiritual Renewal Program for Health Care Leaders in Rome calls participants to explore the spirituality of leadership and gain perspective on U.S. health care as a ministry of the universal Roman Catholic Church.
-
May 15, 2012
Mercy brings spiritual services to outpatient clinics
Traditionally, many ministry chaplains have focused the bulk of their time and energy on hospitalized patients.
-
May 01, 2012
Keeping Up
-
May 01, 2012
Sr. Nora Marie Walsh, CCVI, headed ministry system in San Antonio
Sr. Nora Marie Walsh, CCVI, died Feb. 23 at age 67. She had served the ministry since the mid-1960s, including as president and chief executive of Incarnate Word Health Services in San Antonio. (Incarnate Word merged with other Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word ministries in Texas in 1999 to form CHRISTUS Health.)
-
May 01, 2012
Sr. Helen Kelley, DC, headed CHA in the late 1970s
Sr. Helen Kelley, DC, died March 14 at age 89. She had served the Catholic health ministry for more than four decades, including as CHA president from 1976 to 1978.
-
May 01, 2012
Group aims to inspire nationwide move toward 'greener' health care
A collaboration of health care organizations has launched an initiative to help hospitals and health systems nationwide to operate in a more earth-friendly way.
-
May 01, 2012
St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor celebrates its centennial
St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor in Ann Arbor, Mich., celebrated its 100th anniversary with a Mass, a community gathering, a time capsule sealing and a successful fund-raising ball last year.
-
May 01, 2012
Ministry becomes sole sponsor of Affinity
Milwaukee-based Ministry Health Care has assumed sole sponsorship of an eastern Wisconsin health care network that it had cosponsored with Wheaton, Ill.-based Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare since 1996.