By JULIE MINDA
When philanthropy and community benefit practitioners within a health system unite, they can increase their work's efficiency, tap into new resources, draw on one another's expertise and have greater impact in their communities.
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By JULIE MINDA
Sweet Auburn,
an Atlanta neighborhood thick with civil rights history and famous as the birthplace of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has had its financial ups and downs through the decades.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
After Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest during the "Monday Night Football" game Jan. 2, the phone at AugustHeart started ringing.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
When the staff of the Mercy Health — Toledo Trauma Recovery Center in Ohio began working with a 36-year-old man and his 4-year-old son last August, the pair were homeless.
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Centura Health no longer will function as the joint management company for hospitals owned by CommonSpirit and AdventHealth in Colorado and Kansas.
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On July 1, the Benedictine Sisters of St. Scholastica Monastery will transition sponsorship of their ministries from a sponsor council model to a ministerial public juridic person model. The new body will be called Duluth Benedictine Ministries and will be based at St. Scholastica Monastery in Duluth, Minnesota.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
In the year since Russia invaded, Catholic relief groups have swept into Ukraine to provide aid — housing, meals, medical care and psychosocial support — to the war's victims there and wherever they've taken refuge, all the while assisting people in crises elsewhere around the globe.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge joined a coalition of organizations determined to convince the Louisiana State Legislature in 2015 to rein in payday lenders, whose predatory practices were ensnaring some of the medical center's team members.
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By JULIE MINDA
About a decade ago Cardinal Timothy Dolan challenged ArchCare — the Archdiocese of New York's health care ministry — to help develop a solution for the growing number of elderly clergy who wished to age in place but whose congregations could not meet their health care needs.
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By JULIE MINDA
It's been about a year since CommonSpirit Health formally launched community health worker networks in six of its markets and several of those networks are gaining traction and having a measurable impact on the lives of vulnerable people who previously had struggled to access health and social services.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
When she was expecting her first child eight years ago, Rebecca Bernadel remembers feeling like she was just following orders from her care providers.
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Formative experiences guide participants in self-renewal, spiritual growth and community building
By JULIE MINDA
An institute that Providence St. Joseph Health launched in November 2021 is guiding leaders across the system in developing a richer spirituality and inner life so that they can better engage in carrying out Providence's mission.
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Mercy of Chesterfield, Missouri, is in negotiations to acquire SoutheastHEALTH, a two-hospital system in Cape Girardeau, in southeast Missouri.
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