Catholic hospitals Archives

Catholic hospital in West Virginia announces voluntary severance plan

Jul 22, 2020

A financially strapped Catholic hospital in West Virginia announced unspecified staff reductions Tuesday, the latest in a series of medical center cutbacks in the state over the past year.

By Associated Press

Catholic hospitals in Syria working to help indigent patients

Jul 18, 2020

Three Catholic-run hospitals providing life-saving services free of charge to vulnerable Syrians hope to aid some 50,000 patients by the project’s end next year.

By Dale Gavlak

Kenya to demolish Catholic hospital to reclaim forest land

Jun 30, 2020

St. Mary’s Mission Hospital is one of the structures marked for demolition in a Kenyan government move to repossess illegally acquired Ngong forest land.

By Fredrick Nzwili, CNS

Final HHS rule helps ‘restore rights of health care providers,’ say bishops

Jun 13, 2020

The chairmen of three U.S. bishops’ committees welcomed a final rule implemented by the Trump administration June 12 to restore “the long-standing position of the federal government that discrimination on the basis of ‘sex’ means just that and does not refer to ‘termination of pregnancy’ nor ‘gender identity.'”

By Julie Asher

East Jerusalem Catholic hospital gets coronavirus unit for Palestinians

Apr 23, 2020

When the Israeli Ministry of Health asked St. Joseph’s Hospital to set up a coronavirus unit, the hospital had it completed within a week.

By Judith Sudilovsky

COVID-19 gives new urgency to plans to modernize Catholic healthcare in Brazil

Apr 20, 2020

Although they have a centuries-long presence in Brazil, many Catholic hospitals have been struggling in recent years with financial problems and poor infrastructure. The COVID-19 pandemic came as many Catholic medical institutions were in the middle of a modernization program

By Eduardo Campos Lima