Vatican initiative challenges providers to take on big system change
By JULIE MINDA
A new Vatican initiative is calling on the global Catholic Church, including Catholic health care, to ground its environmental work in integral ecology.
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By JULIE MINDA
Given the dire stage of the climate crisis, pressure is mounting on the health care sector to do more to reduce its oversized environmental footprint.
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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 JULIE MINDA
"The most affordable housing unit is the one that you're in."
That credo shared by Emily Dowdall, a staffer at a community development financial institution, helps to explain why Bon Secours Mercy Health last year allocated hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct payments to community members falling behind on bills or in danger of eviction or foreclosure.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
John Holzhauer said the best word he could come up with to describe how he felt as he toured Lambeau Field, home of his beloved Green Bay Packers, is awestruck.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
When a nursing leader at a hospital within the Bon Secours Mercy Health system observed a nursing resident withstanding insults and slurs hurled by a patient, she asked him how long he had been enduring that treatment.
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CHA calls for sensible gun policy now
By JULIE MINDA
A gunman killed four people and himself June 1 in a medical office building on the campus of Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, part of Saint Francis Health System.
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Uvalde Memorial Hospital sought the support in wake of school shooting
By JULIE MINDA
The mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has devastated the close-knit town of more than 15,000. The killer took the lives of 19 children and two teachers May 24.
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By RENEE STOVSKY
In 2019, when Anjel Ridgel was five months pregnant with her third child, she began to panic.
Six years earlier, she had been in a car accident that left her with excruciating back pain.
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LAURA KAISER
2022-2023 Chairperson, CHA Board of Trustees
President and chief executive, SSM Health, St. Louis
The interconnectedness of nature and humanity has existed since the dawn of creation.
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Kaiser says collaboration will remain essential
By JULIE MINDA
Speaking at the Catholic Health Assembly in Indianapolis June 6 after her installation as the 2022–2023 CHA board chairperson, Laura Kaiser described providers' extraordinary resilience during the pandemic, the need for respite and rejuvenation now and the importance of celebrating blessings to refresh the spirit.
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Dr. RHONDA M. MEDOWS
2021-2022 Chairperson, CHA Board of Trustees
President of population health management
Providence St. Joseph Health, Renton, Washington
When I was given the honor to serve as your chair of the CHA Board of Trustees over a year ago, I knew it was a gift and I was ready for both the adventure and the challenges we'd face together.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
INDIANAPOLIS — Even though the last year has brought major business challenges for a health care sector still stressed by the unrelenting COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Rhonda Medows said she sees reason for hope, particularly for Catholic health care.
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Lifetime Achievement Award
By MARY DELACH LEONARD
When Sr. Maureen McGuire, DC, was executive vice president and chief mission integration officer at Ascension, her colleagues fondly dubbed her "the ultimate gift spotter" because of her propensity for recognizing their talents and firing their spirits.
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Sister Carol Keehan Award
By LISA EISENHAUER
Dr. Alexander Garza saw early on that the COVID-19 pandemic wasn't spreading its misery evenly.
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Sister Concilia Moran Award
By PATRICIA CORRIGAN
By her own admission, Mary Anne Sladich-Lantz goes all out, whether she is cross-country skiing, hiking, golfing, gardening or ensuring that other executives and managers in the Providence St. Joseph Health system have exactly what they need to advance the health system's identity, which she calls "crucial to the essence of who Providence is."
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Tomorrow's Leaders
By KATHLEEN NELSON
The specialties of CHA's 2022 class of Tomorrow's Leaders are diverse: pharmacy, ministry, nursing, advocacy, community health, communications and operations. But they share a commitment and career trajectory: shaping the future of Catholic health care.
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