Sister Carol Keehan news and information

If HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was calling health execs seeking donations, she didn't ask some of the largest not-for-profit hospital systems or their national trade group. She didn't need to.
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The 300 nominees for Modern Healthcare's 12th annual 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare competition.
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The healthcare reform law is already driving big changes in the ways hospitals deliver care and get paid for it. In a matter of months, the law will extend health coverage to millions of Americans through the new insurance exchanges and broader Medicaid eligibility.
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Melanie Evans, reporter for Modern Healthcare, talks about the continued effects of healthcare reform with Carol Keehan, president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, at the American College of Healthcare Executives Congress on Healthcare Leadership, in Chicago.
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President Barack Obama's re-election delivered healthcare executives some certainty that the bulk of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be implemented, yet little clue how the president and Congress will treat healthcare programs in their quest to control federal spending.
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The U.S. Census Bureau delivered numbers suggesting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has started to winnow the country's ranks of uninsured as the presidential candidates pin their prospects in part on whether Americans want the law to stay or go.
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The political winds are pushing healthcare reform to the top of the agenda this week in Charlotte, N.C., as the Democratic faithful gather there for the Democratic National Convention.
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This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare includes 18 newcomers as well as eight honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
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During confirmation hearings in 2005 after he was nominated to become the next chief justice of the United States, John Roberts described a judge's role as that of an “umpire.”
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The Catholic Health Association, which incurred the wrath of U.S. bishops by supporting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, is now formally opposing a regulation in the law that forces Catholic hospitals to indirectly provide birth control to employees.
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