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Comfort in Care at Life's End Wednesday, January 25, 2012 “If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”  —Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

After House repeal vote, plenty of ideas to improve Affordable Care Act Monday, January 24, 2011 WASHINGTON (CNS)—Now that the House has had its say on repealing health reform, what are the next steps for those who would like to see improvements to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?

Hospice Chaplain Helps Dying Patients Find Peace, Joy Sunday, December 26, 2010 ROCKVILLE, Md. (CNS)—The sounds of joyful singing fill the first floor of the suburban Washington home of Irma and Celia Nissen.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Benedict XVI and other church leaders said it was the moral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens, regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay. Monday, November 22, 2010 Pope, Church Leaders Call for Guaranteed Health Care Monday, November 22, 2010	WASHINGTON (CNS)—Catholic and other church-owned health systems demonstrate greater quality and efficiency than not-for-profit or investor-owned systems, according to a new analysis by Thomson Reuters. Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Report: Quality of Catholic Health Systems Higher Than Others Wednesday, August 11, 2010
WATERBURY, Conn. (CNS)—Heavy rains drenched much of the state on the night before a new Malta House of Care mobile van was dedicated at Sacred Heart-Sagrado Corazon Parish in Waterbury. By the time Hartford Archbishop Henry J. Mansell blessed the new van, however, only a light drizzle fell. Monday, September 06, 2010 Archbishop Blesses Mobile Health Unit to Assist Uninsured Monday, September 06, 2010	DENVER (CNS)—A program that provided hospice care, palliative care or caregiver support for more than 3,500 patients in fiscal 2009 is the winner of the Catholic Health Association's 2010 Achievement Citation. Saturday, June 19, 2010 Catholic Health Association Honors Hospice Program, Four Women Saturday, June 19, 2010
WASHINGTON (CNS)—When most provisions of the new health reform legislation take effect in 2014, an estimated 32 million people who had been without health insurance when the reform effort began will be insured. But who will be caring for them? Monday, August 16, 2010 Who Will Care for the Newly Insured? Monday, August 16, 2010	DENVER (CNS)—Differences within the Catholic community during the health reform debate were not about the objectives to be accomplished but about the "degree of assurance" provided by the bill on those objectives, Father J. Bryan Hehir told the annual convention of the Catholic Health Association June 13. Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Time to Move Forward After Differences on Health Reform Wednesday, June 16, 2010

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When patients arrive at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, many are acquainted with the story of the legendary Drs. Mayo. But few know the Clinic has Franciscan roots, roots that began 117 years ago in a cornfield. Monday, April 12, 2010 Mayo Clinic: The Franciscan Connection from St. Anthony Messenger magazine	According to statistics, about 55 people donated a kidney to an unknown recipient the same year I was a donor. As a work of mercy, this is quite doable. God is love, and giving an organ is a wonderful way that modern science has given ... Monday, April 12, 2010 I'd Like to Say: Why I Became a Living Kidney Donor from St. Anthony Messenger magazine
In the dining room of their one-story home in Cincinnati, Ohio, Anne and her husband, Walt, 50, describe for St. Anthony Messenger the support they have received from ... Monday, April 12, 2010 Organ Donations: The Gift of New Life from St. Anthony Messenger magazine	A patient today can feel like a number, poked and prodded like a malfunctioning machine. But Catholic medical schools are leading the charge to restore health ... Monday, April 12, 2010 Faith and Medicine from St. Anthony Messenger magazine
Hope Lodges provide free, temporary housing on a first-come, first-served basis to adult cancer patients and their companions during their course of treatment away from home. (Ronald ... Monday, April 12, 2010 Hope Lodge: Home Away From Home for Cancer Patients from St. Anthony Messenger magazine	Being a health-care advocate is something we have a right and responsibility to do. It involves more than sending flowers or making visits to someone who is ill. Being an advocate requires taking an active role in an effort to enhance a patient’s medical treatment. It may be the greatest gift ... Monday, April 12, 2010 I'd Like to Say: Every Patient Needs an Advocate from St. Anthony Messenger magazine
Few people would consider a massage table to be a place of ministry. Yet that is how Ursuline Sister Veronica Cipar ... Monday, April 12, 2010 Kneading Relief: Sister Veronica's Healing Touch from St. Anthony Messenger magazine	The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick used to be called “the Last Rites” or “Extreme Unction” because the usual recipient was a dying ... Monday, April 12, 2010 Anointing of the Sick: A Changed Sacrament With Many Graces from St. Anthony Messenger magazine
Carol Taylor, C.S.F.N., R.N., Ph.D., is the director of clinical bioethics at Georgetown University. She is also a senior research scholar at the ... Monday, April 12, 2010 Bioethics and Faith: Sister Carol Taylor from St. Anthony Messenger magazine	End-of-life issues touch the depths of our being, stir the emotions, and raise profound questions. They call for careful moral reasoning. In this Update we ... Monday, April 12, 2010 End-of-Life Ethics: Preparing Now for the Hour of Death from Catholic Update