Catholic Health World Articles

March 2025

Grant helps staff at Massachusetts memory care facility learn how to better help patients

VALERIE SCHREMP HAHN

SSM hospital learns about, joins community aid efforts at Functional Friday events

LISA EISENHAUER

CHRISTUS Health to close 174-bed hospital in San Antonio

St. Mary’s in Richmond, Virginia, to complete $370 million expansion

Mission director discusses delicate balance of workplace safety, human dignity in mental health crises

VALERIE SCHREMP HAHN

Fluid management programs at Mercy cardiovascular clinics keep heart patients out of hospitals

VALERIE SCHREMP HAHN

How to prevent violence in schools and communities? Be a green dot

VALERIE SCHREMP HAHN

Artist's rendering of hospital

HSHS plans $270 million investment to expand, remodel Wisconsin hospitals

‘Fight like heck’ to preserve Medicaid, protect U.S. health care, say speakers at AHA rural health care conference

JULIE MINDA

Recognize now that ‘black swan’ events can happen, and plan for them, leadership consultant advises

JULIE MINDA

A sign in the window of a South Plains Public Health District clinic in west Texas lists symptoms of measles. Dozens of cases of the illness have been recorded in the region this year. Julio Cortez/Associated Press

Covenant Children’s stays focused on mission while in the thick of measles outbreak

LISA EISENHAUER

Jim Dover, center, Avera Health president and CEO, discusses upcoming projects while touring Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

With new strategic plan, CEO leads effort to ‘illuminate’ Avera’s care delivery system

LISA EISENHAUER

A crowd gathers for the opening ceremony for Mercy General Hospital on Feb. 11, 1925.

Sacramento’s Mercy General marks centennial

Providence research shows genomic profiling can improve outcomes for patients with advanced cancer

JULIE MINDA

The Tabernacle Community Development Corp. in north St. Louis renovated homes like these to sell and rent

SSM Health works with other St. Louis anchor institutions to expand access to business loans

VALERIE SCHREMP HAHN

Mercy College of Health Sciences professor crusades against human trafficking

LISA EISENHAUER

Participants at Trinity Health PACE Alexandria in Louisiana enjoy each other’s company during a Valentine’s Day painting activity.

Trinity Health focuses on expanding footprint, services of PACE

VALERIE SCHREMP HAHN

Keeping Up - March Edition