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by bcadmin | Oct 19, 2022 | Catholic health care, Featured, health, health care, medicine, News, St. Hildegard of Bingen | 0 |
Could anyone have predicted that less than a quarter of the way through the twenty-first century, many of us would be seriously questioning the ethics, practices, and philosophies of one of the most powerful segments of our society, the medical establishment? But the COVID-19 pandemic upended many of our assumptions and presuppositions. “Losing trust in […]
by bcadmin | Aug 20, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the US, gay, health care, News | 0 |
A U.S. District Court judge in Maryland has ruled that Catholic Relief Services must offer health care coverage to the spouses of gay employees as long as the employees’ jobs are nonreligious in nature.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 9, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Chief Justice John Roberts, Church in the US, COVID-19, employees, Federal government, federal regulations, health care, Neil Gorsuch, News, U.S. Supreme Court, Vaccinations | 0 |
The employee challenge was over a vaccination or testing regulation issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for employers with 100 or more workers.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 8, 2021 | Biden Administration, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, health care, Medicaid, News, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference | 0 |
The Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops has asked the Biden administration to end a stalemate between state officials and the federal agency overseeing Medicaid payments that is threatening health care for low-income Texans.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 26, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, COVID-19, diocese of Nashville, health care, News | 0 |
Catholic school students in the Diocese of Nashville have recently started a project to support health care workers in the best way they know how: through prayer.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 10, 2021 | Catholic Health Association, Ethical Vaccine Distribution, health care, Inequities, News, Pandemic, U.S. & World News, U.S. health care | 0 |
Inequities in U.S. health care have long existed, but the coronavirus pandemic has exposed them to wider scrutiny, according to Kathy, Curran, senior director of public policy for the Catholic Health Association.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 31, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Elderly, health care, Ireland, Irish bishops, News, Republic of Ireland, second, seniors | 0 |
Ireland’s bishops are calling for “appropriate inquiries” into why nursing homes and care facilities were disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 21, 2020 | COVID-19 pandemic, Faith in the Public Arena, health care, Healthcare, News | 0 |
The unprecedented scale of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing efforts to provide critical hospital care have raised serious questions about rationing (limiting access) based on disability or age. Although, like everything else, health care is subject to the problem of scarcity, principles exist for determining the appropriate allocation of medical resources, especially during a pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 6, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, health care, News, Peru | 0 |
As coronavirus cases surge in Peru’s two largest Amazonian cities, Catholic leaders are struggling to find ways to provide the sick with the most basic health need — life-sustaining oxygen.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2020 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, health care, Interfaith, News | 0 |
An investor coalition has called on 14 large pharmaceutical firms to collaborate in developing health technologies, including diagnostic tests, treatments and a vaccine, in response to the new coronavirus.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 15, 2020 | Catholic hospitals, Coronavirus, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Elderly, Eucharist, health care, lead, News, News Analysis, spiritual communion, World Youth Day | 0 |
It’s only been three months since the origin of the coronavirus pandemic in Wuhan, China, and it’s only been a few weeks since what was originally perceived as largely a Chinese problem became a global phenomenon.
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