Catholic healthcare news and information

In the late 1970s, shortly after giving up her post as head of the Catholic Hospital Association, Sister Mary Maurita Sengelaub didn't seek another position at the pinnacle of healthcare administration. Instead, she threw herself into a campaign to provide healthcare for seasonal farmworkers in...
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A Southern California health system and a nearby hospital have finalized a deal to create a new health system.
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A trade group for Roman Catholic hospitals says the latest federal rules on birth control coverage are an improvement.
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Providence Health & Services will have another physician as its president and CEO, as officials have promoted Dr. Rod Hochman to lead the 29-hospital Catholic healthcare system.
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Greg Van Pelt has announced his retirement as chief executive of Providence Health and Services' eight-hospital Oregon division after three years in that position and 38 years with the Renton, Wash.-based system
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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is not satisfied with the Obama administration's attempt to defuse opposition to mandatory birth-control coverage under the healthcare reform law.
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Reporter Paul Barr recaps the highlights of Modern Healthcare's 19th Annual Mergers and Acquisitions Report. Joint venture deals continued to be popular in 2012, while not-for-profit hospitals and systems were big buyers and sellers.
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CHICAGO—University of Chicago Medicine will open a 10-story, $700 million replacement hospital next month, and officials gave politicians and other VIPs a sneak peek at the hospital last week. The hospital is set to admit its first patients Feb. 23. The new facility, named the Center...
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.— El Camino Hospital filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a voter-approved measure that limits what the public hospital could pay its executives. Officials from the two-campus Silicon Valley hospital filed a complaint in Santa Clara Superior Court in San Jose. The...
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Six-hospital Daughters of Charity Health System, Los Altos Hills, Calif., has formally agreed to become part of Ascension Health, St. Louis.
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