By JULIE MINDA
When Barbara Anderson heard about a new "reverse ride-along" program in Cleveland a half dozen years or so ago, she was eager to participate.
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By JULIE MINDA
Accessing medical and mental health care can feel like an insurmountable task for people who are unhoused and mired in addiction, mental illness or declining physical health.
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By KATHLEEN NELSON
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is one of the nation's fastest growing immigrant gateway cities, ranking on the U.S. Census Bureau's top 10 list in 2019 for immigrant population growth in cities with more than 100,000 residents.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Dr. John A. Goss admits to having been a bit tense back in late 2021 when Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston decided to start using some organs from COVID-positive cadaver donors for transplants.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Eric Figueroa, a successful salsa and Latin jazz artist, producer, composer and family man, spent nine years on dialysis because of polycystic kidney disease, a genetic condition that shut down his kidneys.
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By LISA EISENHAUERand
KATHLEEN NELSON
It took a team to turn Laurie Camper's idea for erecting and stocking a little free pantry box near Mercy Health — St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima, Ohio, into reality. "I certainly could never have done this myself," says Camper, a registered nurse in the surgery department of the hospital.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
With the end of a congressional provision that had extended Medicaid coverage during the COVID-19 public health emergency, states are set to begin on April 1 what some Catholic health care leaders and Medicaid experts expect to be a chaotic and cumbersome process to redetermine the eligibility of the more than 90 million people currently enrolled in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program.
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By JULIE MINDA
Michelle Feller concedes that people who are accustomed to how things are usually done in memory care facilities may find the approaches used in the newest unit at ArchCare at Ferncliff Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center to be rather unorthodox.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
A video series being produced by St. Luke's Health is spotlighting the paradox faced by people who live near the Texas Medical Center in Houston but are unable to access most of its world-class services because they are uninsured or underinsured.
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By JULIE MINDA
In mid-February CHA will launch an online Ministry Identity Assessment platform that will streamline some of the processes of conducting a comprehensive evaluation of how well ministry systems and facilities manifest the Catholic health mission.
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By JULIE MINDA
As doctors weigh treatment approaches for patients who are addicted to opioids, Mark Kuczewski thinks it is important that these clinicians acknowledge how their own biases influence care plans.
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CHA's mission "
to advance the Catholic health ministry of the United States in caring for people and communities" is tightly connected to the association's core values of integrity, respect, excellence and stewardship.
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CHA is offering resources to help its members start off the year by focusing on well-being.
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By JULIE MINDA
Novice drivers are experiencing the perils of distracted and impaired driving — in a controlled setting — through a community benefit program of St. James Healthcare in Butte, Montana.
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By LISA EISENHAUER
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died Dec. 31 at the age of 95, is being remembered within the Roman Catholic Church and its health care ministry and among world leaders as a humble intellectual devoted to tradition.
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Sr. Juliana Casey, IHM, died Dec. 29 under hospice care at the Monroe, Michigan, motherhouse of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. She was 82.
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