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February 01, 2011
Responsibility of long-term care mission leaders evolves
A recent December morning found Sr. Kateri Theriault, OSF, hunting for a cheap but reliable car for an employee of St. Leonard, the Centerville, Ohio, nursing home where Sr. Theriault serves as mission integration director.
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February 01, 2011
Florida Catholics unite against human trafficking
Does human trafficking really happen here? That is the most common question Mary Alice Phelan, community health director at St. Vincent's HealthCare of Jacksonville, Fla., hears when she discusses sex and labor trafficking.
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January 15, 2011
Keeping Up
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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.