Catholic Health Services news and information

Catholic Health Services in Rockville Centre, N.Y., has named Dr. Patrick O'Shaughnessy senior VP for medical affairs and chief medical officer.
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Dr. Alan Guerci will be the new president and CEO of Catholic Health Services in Rockville Centre, N.Y., beginning July 1. He will take over for Richard Sullivan Jr., who has been volunteering as the health system's CEO since December 2012, while also continuing to act as chairman of its board of...
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Critics of the federal rule mandating insurance coverage for contraceptives are winning some battles in courts across the country, but Obama administration officials are crafting a new policy that would defuse the concerns driving the lawsuits.
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Catholic Health Services of Long Island, a five-hospital system based in Rockville Centre, N.Y., has replaced President and CEO Lawrence McManus after only eight months on the job, according to a news release.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett named Michael Wolf the Pennsylvania Department of Health's acting secretary after the resignation of Dr. Eli Avila. Avila, 51, “planned to pursue other interests,” Corbett said in a news release. The physician and attorney also looked forward...
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Catholic Health Services of Long Island, Rockville Centre, N.Y., has named Dr. Lawrence Magras as medical director for its new physician-hospital organization, according to a news release.
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Arthur Gonzalez, CEO of Hennepin Healthcare System, Minneapolis, will be the new CEO of the Denver Health and Hospital Authority, effective Sept. 4. He replaces the retiring Dr. Patricia Gabow, who has been CEO of the Colorado safety net provider since 1992. Gonzalez—who will be...
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South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., named Richard Murphy to succeed Joseph Quagliata as president and CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2013.
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Three Roman Catholic health systems joined in the fight against HHS' final rules mandating insurance coverage for employee birth control—a legal battle that some observers called premature and others said was imperative.
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Catholic institutions across the country filed 12 federal lawsuits against HHS alleging the department's mandate over contraception coverage for employer-provided health plans violated their religious freedoms.
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