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July 01, 2011
Membership assembly votes on bylaws, dues, board members
CHA member delegates gathered at the annual Membership Assembly here voted to approve an amendment to the association's bylaws, passed a three-year dues resolution and elected a slate of new board members.
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July 01, 2011
Ministry members work to finalize resource on forming leaders
Leadership formation is a dynamic, creative, collaborative process and one that is more important than ever because laypeople are in senior decision-making rolls at all levels of the health ministry.
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July 01, 2011
CHA convenes ministry's first global health care summit
When ministry members came together at the first CHA Global Health Summit last month, the power of partnerships and collaborations was a recurring lesson.
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July 01, 2011
Seizing the opportunity for reform, ministry works to meet challenges
Health reform presents the opportunity for Catholic health care to advance its mission of healing, CHA President and Chief Executive Officer Sr. Carol Keehan, DC, told the audience at the 2011 Catholic Health Assembly.
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July 01, 2011
Develop pit crew skills for new era, Gawande advises
The nation's health care providers are battling over what it means to lower the costs of patient care without harming a soul, said Dr. Atul Gawande, keynote speaker at the Catholic Health Assembly.
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July 01, 2011
Berwick: U.S. ripe for health care delivery improvements
"It's a difficult time for health care," said Dr. Donald Berwick, in a keynote address to the Catholic Health Assembly.
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June 15, 2011
Keeping Up
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June 15, 2011
Doctor's mission is modernizing Vietnamese medical care
The taxi ride to Bach Mai Hospital is harrowing. Pedestrians rarely have the advantage of a stop sign or traffic light as they step off curbs and walk into an onrush of traffic, parting the motorbikes, pedicabs, bicycles, cars, buses and trucks.
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June 15, 2011
Alexian to build children's medical center on northwest Chicago campus
Alexian Brothers Health System has broken ground on a $117 million children's hospital on the campus of the system's St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates, Ill. Slated to open in 2013, the facility will be called Alexian Brothers Children's Hospital.
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June 15, 2011
Nominations open for palliative care award
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2012 Circle of Life Award: Celebrating Innovation in Palliative and End-of-Life Care.