By JULIE MINDA
Two-plus years into the five-year Healthy Housing Initiative pilot, Catholic Charities agencies and their partners in Catholic health care and Catholic dioceses are making headway building up networks to address the housing, health and social service needs of vulnerable community members.
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By PATRICIA CORRIGAN
Getting help or navigating a health care system can be difficult for individuals with substance use disorders or chronic mental illness, especially those who are homeless. In Oregon that's where Better Outcomes thru Bridges comes in.
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By JULIE MINDA
When the pandemic upended the way U.S. Catholic health ministries conducted their global health work, leaders of international mission departments and teams realized they did not have to be in-country to help their partners in the developing world mount a response to COVID-19.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Dr. James Craven remembers back in his residency days when he and other doctors-in-training would use all the tools they had available to diagnose patients with the most complex medical conditions and then watch as those patients were seen by a highly respected veteran physician.
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Wright L. Lassiter III will succeed Lloyd H. Dean as the chief executive of CommonSpirit Health on Aug. 1.
Lassiter is moving to the top post at CommonSpirit from Henry Ford Health, where he has been president and chief executive since 2016. Henry Ford Health, based in Detroit, has 33,000 employees across a system that includes four hospitals and an academic medical center.
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Market to HOPE's supporters include CHRISTUS Health
By LISA EISENHAUER
Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas served nine families at its Market to HOPE in January 2020, the month the grocery-modeled food pantry opened.
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Research and data are essential to evidence-based solutions
By LISA EISENHAUER
Two massacres in 10 days in May – one at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in which 10 people were killed and another at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that left at least 19 children and two teachers dead — have stunned a nation where mass shootings and other gun violence are becoming increasingly common.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
While it's taken a decade to get to this point, the ground has been cleared — literally and figuratively — for a mixed-use development on the southwest side of Chicago that will be anchored by a new Saint Anthony Hospital.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
At the start of the pandemic, when patients with COVID-19 who walked into emergency departments began to deteriorate so rapidly they were intubated and placed on ventilators within hours, Bon Secours Mercy Health kicked its advance care planning efforts into overdrive.
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Directors say inpatient program at Saint Francis Health is one of the longest-running in the nation
By LISA EISENHAUER
Jenn Fabian traces the start of her eating disorder to the Christmas holiday break of her senior year of college, when she decided to join her parents on the Weight Watchers diet plan so she could slim down a bit before her summer wedding.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
The Maternity onto Motherhood program at HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, aims to give mothers the birthing experience they want.
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