By JULIE MINDA
There is a massive amount of data that providers generate in the delivery of health care, and much of that data is highly sensitive, personal information.
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By JULIE MINDA
Since the Sisters of Mercy founded Mercy Housing in 1981, the nonprofit, affordable housing ministry has partnered with Catholic health systems and facilities.
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By PATRICIA CORRIGAN
Some come to talk about their addictions. Some ask for help. Some are hungry. A listening ear, a referral to a treatment center or a turkey sandwich all are available in the emergency departments of five hospitals in Cincinnati, through Mercy Serves, a program initiated six years ago by Mercy Health — Cincinnati, part of Bon Secours Mercy Health.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
SHAKOPEE, Minn. — Circumstances that threw a curve into plans for the opening of a new addition at Benedictine Living Community — Shakopee smoothed the way for 113 retired School Sisters of Notre Dame to move there last year.
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Nonprofit zeroes in on issues at the root of hunger, such as racism and poverty
By LISA EISENHAUER
Policies to pay workers living wages and programs to distribute nutritious food that are supported by SSM Health and Mercy are in sync with a long-term initiative to address hunger being led by Missouri Foundation for Health.
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By JULIE MINDA
As part of a broader effort to more closely integrate Catholic health care into Catholic parish life, two CommonSpirit Health hospitals soon will welcome third-year seminarians — all of whom are preparing for their final year of study — onto their campuses so they can learn about and experience what it's like to provide spiritual care to sick and dying people.
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More than 500 patients and residents from the neighborhoods surrounding Saint Anthony Hospital in Chicago joined demonstrations at the state capitol in Springfield last month to urge lawmakers to provide funding for a new health campus that would be anchored by the hospital.
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An academic health system is in talks to acquire a 349-bed Mobile, Alabama, hospital from Ascension.
Under the agreement, Ascension Providence Health System, its flagship Ascension Providence Hospital, and affiliated clinics would join Mobile-based University of South Alabama Health Care Authority.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
SEATTLE — Jenny Lao says the addiction treatment program she entered at Swedish Medical Center saved her life. "I feel really blessed," says Lao, now the mother of a preschooler and the stepmother of two other children.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
MINNEAPOLIS — Jerry Carley, president and chief executive of Minnesota-based Benedictine, says the challenges brought on by COVID-19 are far from over for skilled nursing care facilities and nursing homes, even as the national emergencies around the pandemic end.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
One of the patients seen at the Human Trafficking Medical Safe Haven Program's clinic at Dignity Health Medical Group — Northridge in suburban Los Angeles was a woman in her 60s who had been a captive domestic servant for 10 years and spoke no English.
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By JULIE MINDA
Decades of research establish that severe, chronic traumas endured in childhood can
have far-reaching negative impacts on physical and mental health over a person's lifetime.
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By JULIE MINDA
Four large health systems with Catholic facilities are among the 42 organizations taking part in a new initiative aimed at more quickly using scientific research in health care practice.
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By JULIE MINDA
Finding a private place to nurse or pump breast milk at tourist destinations can be a challenge. Two ministry facilities are meeting this need as part of broader partnerships with tourist sites in their communities.
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In an effort to reduce the high rate of colorectal cancer deaths among Black Americans, Providence St. Joseph Health is turning to some trusted and influential voices in Black communities — church pastors.
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