Clinicians emphasize: Monoclonal treatments are not a substitute for vaccines
By JULIE MINDA
For about a year, drugmakers have been rolling out
a series of treatments at are helping reduce hospitalization and death in people infected with COVID-19.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Dr. Nadeem Qureshi was exhausted. He'd just returned from teaching overseas and figured he needed a couple of days of rest to shake off the jet lag. As that next week of late March 2020 progressed, the fatigue lingered, a mild fever set in and his sense of taste diminished.
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Practitioners strive to preserve the dignity and 'fullness of life' for patients facing chronic illness or death
By JULIE MINDA
The role of palliative care practitioners is to relieve the pain and suffering of people with serious illness and to improve their quality of life.
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Collaborators seek to grow the number of hospitals capable of caring for children in disasters
By LISA EISENHAUER
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis has a major role in a new national network to improve and standardize the care of children, especially in disasters.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
SCL Health has announced plans to merge its eight hospitals, 160 physician clinics and other facilities with those of
Intermountain Healthcare to create a 33 hospital, 385 clinic system with more than 58,000 employees.
Lydia Jumonville, president and chief executive of SCL Health, said while the integrated system will be secular, the SCL Health hospitals will retain their Catholic names and identity.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Representatives of two of the country's largest Catholic health systems that have pledged to reduce their environmental impacts say tying the efforts to their systems' mission, making a long-term commitment, having the support of leadership and collecting data to verify that the efforts are on track are key aspects of the work.
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By KATHLEEN NELSON
Rich Roth knows "innovation" is an expansive term, one open to many definitions. So, as senior vice president and chief strategic innovation officer for CommonSpirit Health, Roth has a crisp, elevator speech that encapsulates his team's approach to innovation.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Lloyd H. Dean, chief executive of CommonSpirit Health,
plans to retire next summer after 22 years as a national leader in the Catholic health ministry.
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Mercy health system of Chesterfield, Missouri, has named Steve Mackin president and chief executive, effective April 1. Mercy also named him to its board of directors. He will succeed Lynn Britton, who has headed Mercy for 13 years.
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Patricia A. Cahill, founding president and chief executive of Catholic Health Initiatives, died Oct. 2 in East Sandwich, Massachusetts. She was 83.
Cahill led the consolidation of Catholic Health Corp. of Omaha, Nebraska, the Franciscan Health System of Aston, Pennsylvania, and the Sisters of Charity Health Care Systems of Cincinnati into the CHI health system in 1996.
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By JULIE MINDA
More than a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, a fourth wave of infection was driving new caseload spikes in communities across the U.S. this summer. Already taxed by the ravages of prior surges and shortages of essential staff, many hospitals were stretched up to or beyond their capacity.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
As summer was winding down, Dr. Celeste Caballero was experiencing firsthand the results of the nation's having let down its collective guard against COVID-19 in the spring when case numbers were falling and vaccines were becoming widely available.
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By JULIE MINDA
The chief factor limiting health care facilities' ability to respond to surging COVID-19 patient counts is the shortage of frontline staff for the departments that treat seriously ill patients.
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By KATHLEEN NELSON
If you can resist the urge to make a pun, you'd say that Bon Secours Mercy Health is doing its part to make people feel safer on the pathway to normal. If you can't resist, you'd add that the system has a nose for this sort of thing.
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With ongoing input and ideas, the community will cocreate a health campus
By LISA EISENHAUER
A design firm has begun a monthslong listening tour as part of a collaboration to advance health and healing through a whole-person approach, especially in the neighborhood that is home to the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland and several of its sister ministries, including the St. Vincent Charity Medical Center.
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They're engaging on immigration, trafficking, violence prevention and environmentalism
By JULIE MINDA
With the world rightly consumed with the coronavirus last year, a group of leaders of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word congregation in San Antonio had a discussion about how best to keep the plight of vulnerable groups, particularly poor migrants from Central America, in the public's consciousness.
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Stigma is a barrier to mental health care access, especially among older immigrants, say experts
By JULIE MINDA
Starting about a decade ago, mental health began percolating up as a pressing public health concern on the community health needs assessments of Providence Mission Hospital Mission Viejo in California.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Representatives of two of the country's largest Catholic health systems that have pledged to reduce their environmental impacts say tying the efforts to their systems' mission, making a long-term commitment, having the support of leadership and collecting data to verify that the efforts are on track are key aspects of the work.
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There is "no group more committed, creative, bright and compassionate than Catholic health care professionals," according to Robert Wicks.
Because of that devotion to their calling, Wicks said there's a tendency among Catholic health care providers to deny, avoid or minimize the trauma they are experiencing due to the relentless demand for COVID-19 care.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
SCL Health announced on Thursday plans to merge its eight hospitals, 160 physician clinics and other facilities with those of
Intermountain Healthcare to create a 33-hospital, 385 clinic system with more than 58,000 employees.
Lydia Jumonville, president and chief executive of SCL Health, said while the integrated system will be secular, the SCL Health hospitals will retain their Catholic names and identity.
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By JULIE MINDA
As of Aug. 31, 47% of people aged 12-17 had been partially or fully inoculated against COVID-19 — the lowest percentage of any age group eligible for vaccination, according to data analysis from The Washington Post.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Executives at several Catholic health systems that have raised their minimum wages to $15 an hour in recent months say the move was driven by a desire to provide all workers a living wage as well as by the tight labor market.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
As scientists point to wildfires and severe drought across much of the American West, flooding in the Midwest, hurricanes in the South and other extreme weather as evidence of global warming's impact, CHA, its members and other Catholic organizations are ramping up their efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Melissa Kersten remembers when, early in her time as a counselor at what is known as Burn Camp in Wisconsin, she overheard a group of girls chatting. One of them said: "I would never change what happened to me for anything" and the others agreed.
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By JULIE MINDA
Colleen Stiles, 78, was as excited as a schoolgirl last month when the kids returned to the elementary school classroom in Billings, Montana, where she works with children who need a boost with academic or developmental skills.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Several Catholic agencies already working in Haiti rushed medical and humanitarian support to victims of the earthquake that struck a southwestern region of the country on Aug. 14.
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By JULIE MINDA
Trinity Health Senior Communities is remodeling three of its senior living campuses in response to evolving preferences of seniors. The seniors' changing expectations were reflected in surveys the continuum of care system has conducted to inform the capital projects.
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Providers flip their operating model to provide more services at home
By JULIE MINDA
During the worst of the pandemic and prior to being vaccinated against COVID-19, Vivian Collick, 79, of Philadelphia, was afraid to venture out of her senior living apartment complex for supplies or medical care.
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By JULIE MINDA
About 20% of small businesses have closed either temporarily or permanently during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
FERGUSON, Mo. — One of the people who stopped by the Mercy Clinic Primary Care – Ferguson within the first few weeks of its opening in late July was a Black man who couldn't find a doctor who would accept his insurance.
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By COLLEEN SCHRAPPEN
Jamie George had been through eight drug treatment programs for heroin dependency when he checked into
Waterfront Recovery Services on Dec. 5, 2018.
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