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Catholic hospitals and other religious institutions are a large and growing part of the US health care system. They have specific policies restricting reproductive health care. Despite increased public attention in the media to women denied necessary pregnancy-related care at Catholic hospitals, research on the effects of religious restrictions remains limited. This article summarizes research priorities as generated by 80 attendees at the inaugural meeting of the Research Consortium on Religious Healthcare Institutions. Such research is need to understand the impact of religious health system ownership on women's health.
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Catholicism , Delivery of Health Care , Hospitals, Religious/trends , Reproductive Health , Women's Health , Female , Humans , PregnancySubject(s)
Benchmarking , Catholicism , Hospitals, General/organization & administration , Hospitals, Religious/organization & administration , Warfare , Delivery of Health Care/organization & administration , Delivery of Health Care/trends , Health Promotion/trends , Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/prevention & control , Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola/therapy , Hospitals, General/trends , Hospitals, Religious/trends , Humans , UgandaSubject(s)
Computer Communication Networks/trends , Electronic Health Records/trends , Hospitals, Religious/trends , Multi-Institutional Systems/trends , State Medicine/trends , Catholicism , Computer Communication Networks/organization & administration , Computer Security/standards , Confidentiality/standards , Cost-Benefit Analysis , Electronic Health Records/organization & administration , Hospitals, Religious/organization & administration , Humans , Information Dissemination/methods , Medical Record Linkage/methods , Multi-Institutional Systems/organization & administration , Organizational Case Studies , State Medicine/organization & administration , United Kingdom , United StatesSubject(s)
Economic Recession , Economics, Hospital , Health Care Reform , Health Facility Closure/economics , Health Facility Merger/economics , Health Facility Closure/trends , Health Facility Merger/trends , Hospitals, Proprietary/economics , Hospitals, Proprietary/trends , Hospitals, Religious/economics , Hospitals, Religious/trends , Hospitals, Voluntary/economics , Hospitals, Voluntary/trends , Humans , United StatesSubject(s)
Buddhism , Hospitals, Religious/trends , Health Promotion , Humans , Mass Screening , ThailandABSTRACT
The public responsibilities of nonprofit hospitals have been contested since the advent of the 1969 community benefit standard. The distance between the standard's legal language and its implementation has grown so large that the Internal Revenue Service issued a new reporting form for 2008 that is modeled on the Catholic Health Association's guidelines for its member hospitals. This article analyzes the appearance of an emerging moral consensus about community benefits to argue against a strict charity care mandate and in favor of directing efficient care delivery and healthy community initiatives to underserved populations. The analysis turns on three moral conceptions of community benefits, the social contract model of hospital critics and the common good and covenantal models of Catholic and Jewish hospitals.
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Catholicism , Community-Institutional Relations/trends , Delivery of Health Care/standards , Hospitals, Religious , Judaism , Organizations, Nonprofit , Social Justice , Social Responsibility , Delivery of Health Care/economics , Delivery of Health Care/trends , Hospitals, Religious/standards , Hospitals, Religious/trends , Humans , Medically Underserved Area , Organizations, Nonprofit/standards , Organizations, Nonprofit/trends , United StatesSubject(s)
Catholicism , Health Facility Administrators/trends , Hospitals, Religious/organization & administration , Leadership , Career Mobility , Community-Institutional Relations , Health Facility Administrators/education , Hospitals, Religious/trends , Humans , Organizational Objectives , Societies, Hospital , Staff Development , United StatesABSTRACT
The origin of Brussels hospitals goes back to the XIIth century when several institutions created by the Church were only aimed at lodging poor pilgrims. The evolution from ecclesiastic management to municipal direction ended up in the establishment of two main public hospitals devoted to health care : Saint-Jean and Saint-Pierre. The latter, founded under Austrian rule and associated from the start with clinical teaching, gained therefore a prominent position. In 1834, it became a university hospital thanks to an agreement between the recently founded Free University of Brussels and the municipal health authorities. Finally, the administration of the main university clinical infrastructure was totally taken over by the University and moved to the newly erected Erasmus Hospital together with all faculty buildings. Development of the Brussels Maternity occurred rather slowly and underwent several location changes because of varying general politics as well as for sanitary reasons of hygiene. It was not before the XXth century that obstetrical practice progressively shifted from the private domiciliary sphere at the hands of midwives, to the hospital environment and medical control as is the case today.