Lisa Eisenhauer

3 weeks ago | chausa.org | Lisa Eisenhauer

One way the health care sector can help curb the threat posed by plastics in the future is to return to some practices of the past, says Dr. Philip J. Landrigan. Landrigan led a CHA webinar in March focused on the climate and health risks of plastics. The webinar was part of CHA's observance of Earth Day, which is April 22. He discussed how health care providers have moved away from a "circular economy" in which medical supplies such as gowns and masks were made of reusable materials.

1 month ago | chausa.org | Lisa Eisenhauer

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1 month ago | chausa.org | Lisa Eisenhauer

With new strategic plan, CEO leads effort to ‘illuminate’ Avera’s care delivery system March 2025 When he moved from another system to take over the top post at Avera Health, Jim Dover says his first priority was "seeking to understand" the system. He sees the biggest mistake a leader who's new to an organization can make to be assuming to know the place well right away. "In reality, they don't know anything," says Dover, who became president and CEO of Avera Health in fall 2023.

2 months ago | chausa.org | Lisa Eisenhauer

Proposals for drastic Medicaid cuts worry Catholic health care providers February 2025 Ryan Cross would like the people behind budget proposals that call for drastic cuts to Medicaid to visit Our Lady of the Angels Hospital in Bogalusa, Louisiana. The 66-bed hospital serves a community of about 10,000 and its rural surroundings with acute, emergency and specialty care that includes labor and delivery and pediatrics. The next closest hospital with similar services is 45 miles away.

2 months ago | chausa.org | Lisa Eisenhauer

A breakout session at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering on how community health needs assessments can help social service agencies and health care providers work together to address gaps in services brought together Nancy Zuech Lim, director of community health improvement at CHA, and Ben Wortham, vice president for behavioral health integration at Catholic Charities USA.