Health Progress Articles

Spring 2026

Lessons From Abroad for Catholic Health Care

BRIAN M. KANE, PhD, Senior Director of Ethics, Catholic Health Association

Where Mission Meets the Market: Solving Health Care Failures That Hurt People

CARTER DREDGE, BusD, MHA, President, Mindshare Institute, and Executive Director, Intermountain Health Institute

Strengthen Disaster Preparedness by Understanding Risk

ALEXANDER GARZA, MD, MPH, SSM Health Chief Community Health Officer

Catholic Health Systems Aim to Break Cycle of Gun Violence and Accidents

DAVID LEWELLEN, Contributor to Health Progress

Making Things Better: Mercy Transforms the Nursing Experience

STEPHANIE CLEMENTS, MBA, BSN, RN, CENP, Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive, Mercy

Access Begins With a Connection: How Simple Innovations Transform Care and Reach the Vulnerable

MITESH PATEL, MD, MBA, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, Ascension

'I Have Loved You': Catholic Health Care's Role in Applying Dilexi Te to Medicaid’s New Community Engagement Requirements

PAULO G. PONTEMAYOR, MPH, Senior Director of Government Relations, Catholic Health Association

National Survey Highlights Trends and Obstacles to Professional Spiritual Care in Catholic Health Environments

MARK GRAY, PhD, Director of CARA Catholic Polls, Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, JILL FISK, MATM, Director of Mission Services, Catholic Health Association, and ERICA COHEN MOORE, MA, Executive Director, National Association of Catholic Chaplains

Editor's Note — Spring 2026

BETSY TAYLOR

Mission — Go and Do Likewise: A Tradition of Caring for Our Immigrant Brothers and Sisters

DENNIS GONZALES, PhD

Ethics — (Xeno)Transplantation and an Integral Ecology

SAM BERENDES

Formation — The Power of Retreats: Where Spirit Shapes Leadership

DARREN M. HENSON, PhD, STL

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