By LISA EISENHAUER
Dr. David Basel, Avera Medical Group vice president of clinical quality, didn't hesitate when it came to getting his 8-year-old immunized for COVID-19.
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Ministry nurses take on vaccine hesitancy, maternal health disparities, care access gaps
By JULIE MINDA
Since its beginnings, the Catholic health ministry has prioritized care of the poor and vulnerable. CHA and its members reaffirmed that commitment a year ago through the
"We Are Called" initiative and the related pledge, "Confronting Racism by Achieving Health Equity."
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By RENEE STOVSKY
Felice Zimmern Stokes, 82, has been a volunteer at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, New Jersey, for 10 years, first working with children in the day care center and now assisting throughout the hospital.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
As system vice president of community health for CommonSpirit Health, Pablo Bravo oversees the system's rollout of Connected Community Networks.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
A lifestyle medicine program launched in the spring by southeastern Michigan-based Saint Joseph Mercy Health System is a pilot for the system's parent company, Trinity Health.
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By JULIE MINDA
Catholic Health of Buffalo, New York, expects to begin construction this month on a hospital in Lockport, New York, that will preserve health care services in that community.
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Focus areas include innovation, health equity, environmentalism
By JULIE MINDA
Providence St. Joseph Health has started its first national foundation to generate funding for its top pressing goals and challenges.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
When Hurricane Ida was churning across the Gulf of Mexico in late summer, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had to brace for a disaster on top of a crisis.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Even as the overall mortality rate from strokes has fallen, the racial disparity in the toll has remained what Dr. John McBurney calls stubbornly high.
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After decades without insurance, many Marshallese regain Medicaid coverage
By DALE SINGER
Natives of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean have reason to feel victimized by the U.S. government. Now, a coalition in Dubuque, Iowa, including MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center, part of Trinity Health, is building trust and trying to help make things right.
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By JULIE MINDA
SSM Health, Intermountain Healthcare and Presbyterian Healthcare Services are teaming to create a "health care utility." The startup nonprofit company, called Graphite Health, will tackle digital interoperability challenges that slow innovation uptake in health care.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
An intensive care unit nurse in Arkansas has sparked a national outpouring of support since she started a baby registry for a young father whose wife was hospitalized with COVID-19.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
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 JULIE MINDA
The number of Americans living with Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, will more than double in the coming decades. Currently, about 5.8 million Americans ages 65 and up have Alzheimer's disease. By 2050, that count may grow to 13.8 million, according to "2020 Alzheimer's Facts and Figures," a special report published in the March 10, 2020, edition of
Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association.
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By PATRICIA CORRIGAN
Home cooks routinely pair ingredients that seem random to create new, nutritious dishes for their families. At Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage cooks have done the same thing for over 35 years in order to feed individuals at two local shelters.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Reinforcements from the military arrived in mid-October to bolster the medical staff at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington.
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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 that 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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