By LISA EISENHAUER
The COVID-19 crisis has taken an especially harsh toll on the well-being of health care workers. For two years, hospital staff across the Catholic health ministry have treated wave after wave of seriously ill and dying patients, with little or no time to process their grief or regain their personal equilibrium.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Ann Schumacher says she wasn't surprised by what participants in the roundtable discussion that kicked off the work of the American Hospital Association's Hospitals Against Violence advisory group shared about incidents of violence in their health care facilities.
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By JULIE MINDA
About 550 young adults sought homeless services including supportive housing slots and short-term rent subsidies in 2020 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Many of them did not receive the housing or services they pursued.
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By JULIE MINDA
Several months after Becky Betts began establishing a population health department for Providence St. Joseph Health's southeast Washington region, the pandemic exploded in and around Walla Walla, Washington.
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By PATRICIA CORRIGAN
When COVID-19 escalated demands on health care providers in early 2020, CHRISTUS Health developed a remote patient monitoring program to aid uninsured or otherwise vulnerable patients discharged to manage the illness at home. Support teams that included community health workers distributed thermometers, oximeters and instructions for how to use a cell phone app and then monitored patients' conditions.
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Sr. Marianna Kosior, OSF, died Dec. 11 at St. Francis Convent in Springfield, Illinois, at age 99. She led the founding of Hospital Sisters Health System of Springfield in 1978 and was the organization's first president, heading the system until her retirement in 1989.
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Bon Secours Mercy Health's Lorain, Ohio, and Youngstown, Ohio, markets are beginning the new year with a new cross-market leadership structure.
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Some facilities are reviving traditions put on hold in 2020
By JULIE MINDA
Ministry leaders are hoping that the fun and merrymaking of the holiday season will lift the spirits of pandemic-weary clinicians and staff.
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By DR. RHONDA M. MEDOWS
2021–2022 Chairperson
CHA Board of Trustees
President of Population Health Management
Providence St. Joseph Health, Renton, Washington
Christmas has always been my favorite time of year because it's about birth, family, giving and coming together. This seems especially important for Christmas and the holidays this year.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Andie Daisley never thought of herself as a poet until the family of a patient lost to the pandemic asked her to help spread the word that "COVID is real."
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Even before the Association of American Medical Colleges officially launched its
Center for Health Justice this fall, the staff of the nascent center was at work on an initiative focused on trust building through community engagement.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
As
Our Lady of Sorrows Church in New York City was preparing this fall to restart its program of offering the sacrament of Holy Communion to the homebound, its pastor was aware that many of those parishioners had been isolated for the better part of two years.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Being empathetic is not only good for humanity, it's good for business in the view of author and brand strategist Maria Ross.
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Mercy Health – Cincinnati is building a $200 million, 60-bed hospital in Mason, Ohio, a city of about 34,700 people approximately 22 miles northeast of downtown Cincinnati. Mercy Health Kings Mills Hospital will be Mercy Health's sixth Cincinnati-area hospital. Mercy Health is part of Bon Secours Mercy Health.
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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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