The Catholic Health Association of the United States

Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic's Saint Francis Hospital in Delaware has invited social service organizations to use space on its campus to serve people in need. The newest tenant is the #HOPECommission, a nonprofit that helps women reentering society after #incarceration. Julie Minda explains in #CatholicHealthWorld 📰: https://hubs.li/Q02FswXV0 #SpreadHope #healthcare Trinity Health

🙏 🇺🇸 A PRAYER FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY 🇺🇸 🙏 Heavenly Father, On #IndependenceDay, we give thanks for the blessings of liberty and the freedoms we hold dear. We are grateful for the vision of our forefathers, who laid the foundation of this great nation, and for those who sacrificed to preserve our freedom. Lord, we ask that you strengthen our resolve to stand against oppression in all its forms and to uphold the principles of justice and equality. Inspire our leaders to govern with compassion and a commitment to the common good. Help us, as citizens, to engage with our communities and to advocate for what is right and just. Fill our hearts with hope and resilience, so that we may continue to strive for a more perfect union. Let the spirit of unity and liberty prevail in our land, and may we never take for granted the precious gift of freedom. In Your holy name, we pray. Amen.

Some #CatholicHealth hospitals have started #placenta donation programs to help patients heal wounds and advance medical research. Valerie Schremp Hahn explains in #CatholicHealthWorld 📰: https://hubs.li/Q02Fh-M-0 Intermountain Health Mercy Trinity Health AlloSource® Cardinal Biologicals, Inc. Gift of Life Michigan

In our newest #WeAreCalledUS member video, Bon Secours Mercy Health's Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer Odesa Stapleton talks with system leaders Wael Haidar MD MBA, Uyon Johnson and Jill Jansen about efforts to confront #racism by achieving #HealthEquity. Their works includes reporting primary care metrics by race and ethnicity to identify gaps; #advocating legislative policies on workforces shortages, #AffordableHousing and #HumanTrafficking; and engaging community members in churches and beauty and barber shops where they can get blood pressure readings and information about securing food and housing. Watch the video and learn how your health system can take the We Are Called health equity pledge: www.wearecalled.org

After 41 years of service to CHA and the #CatholicHealth ministry, our dear Janet Dunahue, data analyst, retires this week! Janet has been a gracious model of CHA's core values of respect, integrity, stewardship and excellence for her CHA colleagues. During her tenure, Janet held many roles: 🔹Data Entry Clerk 🔹Typesetter 🔹Inventory Assistant, Production Services 🔹Administrative Assistant, Mission Services 🔹Database Specialist, Member Services 🔹Data Analyst, IT Please join us in congratulating Janet for her service and wishing her a blessed, joyful and healthy retirement! 🎉❤️🙌🙏

🎉 Congratulations to CHA's #CatholicHealthWorld team consisting of Editor Lisa Eisenhauer, Associate Editors Julie Minda and Valerie Schremp Hahn, Designer Norma Klingsick and retired Editor Judy VandeWater along with contributor Kathleen Nelson who recently earned Catholic Media Association awards 🏆 and honorable mentions. See the list: https://hubs.li/Q02F8t7z0 American Hospital Association, ArchCare, Avera Health, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Providence, Sisters of Charity Health System (now part of Intermountain Health), St. Francis Health System (part of Bon Secours Mercy Health), St. Luke's Health (part of CommonSpirit Health), St. Mary Medical Center (part of CommonSpirit Health's Dignity Health)

👏 Congratulations to new CHA Board Chair Joseph Impicciche of Ascension and Vice Chair – Chair Elect Orest Holubec of Providence! We look forward to their strong leadership in the coming year! 💜 Damond W. Boatwright of Hospital Sisters Health System moves from 2023 – 24 board chair to speaker of the membership assembly. We thank Damond for always inspiring us! 🎉 We give a warm welcome to our incoming board members who began their initial three-year term July 1: 🔹Rachelle Barina, PhD, HEC-C, Hospital Sisters Health System 🔹Kendra Calhoun, Avera Health 🔹Anna Newsom, Providence 🔹John M. Starcher Jr., JD, Bon Secours Mercy Health 🙏 Finally, we give our sincere thanks to outgoing board members Rev. Joseph Cardone of Bon Secours Mercy Health and Laura S. Kaiser, FACHE, of SSM Health, former 2022 – 23 board chair and 2023 – 24 speaker of the membership assembly, for their service to the board and commitment to the #CatholicHealth ministry.

🎉Congratulations to CHA's #HealthProgress team consisting of Editor Betsy Taylor, Managing Editor Charlotte Kelley and Designer Norma Klingsick along with the CHA staff, member health systems, partners and contributors who recently earned ASBPE and Catholic Media Association awards 🏆and honorable mentions! See the list: https://hubs.li/Q02DYr_D0 🔸America Media: Michael O'Loughlin 🔸Aquinas Institute of Theology: Fr. Charles Bouchard, OP, STD 🔸Kelly Bilodeau, contributor 🔸Catholic Health Association: Bruce Compton, Clay O'Dell, Paulo G. Pontemayor, Indu Spugnardi 🔸Mercy Health: Michael Connelly 🔸Providence: Jamez Terry, MDiv, BCC; Robert Lippman, DBH, MSW 🔸SSM Health: Alexander Garza, MD #CatholicHealth #healthcare

🆕 The summer issue of #HealthProgress explores mind-body-spirit connections and how #healthcare organizations are encouraging healthy lifestyles, tending to #emotional and #spiritual wholeness, and fostering a better understanding of #trauma and distress and how supportive relationships can assist with #MentalHealth. Read the new issue: ➡️ www.chausa.org/HP Illustration: Alice Mollon   #WholePersonCaring #CatholicHealth

Today is World #SocialMedia Day AND my birthday! 🎉 Let's celebrate how social media brings us together and honor the unseen, unsung heroes behind our screens – the social media managers who build brands, connect us, inform us and inspire us. Their diverse skills and strategic efforts are invaluable to every company's success. 🙏