Mission: Believing in the worth and digni - ty of the human Catholic Health Association of person made in the P.O. Box 65217 image and likeness St. Paul, MN 55165-0217 of God, the Catholic Health July, 2009 Association- Minnesota assists its members Mark Your Legislative to fulfill the calendar As I See It healing mission of Overview: the Church.

September 16-18, 2009 A Challenging Session MHA Annual Meeting Madden’s, Gull Lake n a legislative year when the wide - MinnesotaCare as a Inquiring minds FFI: www.mnhospitals.org Ispread prediction was a drawn out bat - result of provisions Catholic Health Association of Minnesota tle with additional sessions, the conclusion that reduce cost Board of Directors October 1, 2009 caught many by surprise. The 2009 leg - and administrative want to know... Toby Pearson, Ms. Phyllis Novitskie, President Healthy Kids, Healthy Future islative session ended without agreement barriers. The newly CHA-MN ...what’s happening in your organization. Please send your news HealthEast St. Joseph’s Hospital Day 2009 on how to close the $6.4 billion budget enacted provisions are 651) 232-3434; [email protected] Executive Director to Toby Pearson, CHA-MN executive director. Telephone: shortfall. The stalemate centered on paid for out of existing Mr. Bret Reuter, President-Elect (651) 503-2163; e-mail: [email protected]. Ask your public February 4, 2010 Governor Pawlenty’s firm stand on no new resources in the Health Care Access Fund, St. Cloud Hospital/St. Benedict’s Senior Community relations or communications director to put us on the news Start of the 2010 Minnesota taxes and the legislature’s attempt to miti - which pays for MinnesotaCare. These (320) 251-2700; [email protected] release list: CHA-MN, P.O. Box 65217, St. Paul, MN 55165. I Legislative Session gate cuts and provide a structurally sound changes were a strong step toward the Sr. Mary Heinen, CSJ, Past-President state budget, while offering a nearly 1 bil - Minnesota Health Security Act legislation St. Mary's Health Clinics, St. Paul (651) 690-7028 February 10, 2010 lion dollar tax increase to the equation. that would ensure all Minnesotans have News cont. from page 7 World Day of the Sick In the end, as we all access to affordable health Mr. Mark Cairns, Secretary-Treasurer know by now, the governor care coverage, starting Thompson said BHS, which owns or manages about 40 long- Madonna Towers of Rochester June 13, 2010 said there would be no with children. term care facilities in seven states, is trying to rethink elder care (507) 288-3911; [email protected] As the situation 2010 Catholic Health Assembly special session and he In other legislative by providing private rooms in its long-term care facilities, new Sr. Mary Eliot Crowley, OSF Denver, CO St. Marys Hospital-Mayo Clinic would use his executive becomes darker activity, the Omnibus Tax independent-. FFI: www.chausa.org (507) 255-6166; [email protected] powers to balance the on state levels Policy Bill was passed by • Brainerd Lakes Health (BLH), is collaborating with two other Mr. Thomas Crowley budget. With these ‘unal - both the House and health care organizations to develop a comprehensive cardiovas - St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Wabasha lotments’ now announced, throughout the Senate on May 12. cular program at St. Joseph's Medical Center. Brainerd Lakes (612) 565-4531, [email protected] the lines in the sand are country, it con - Among its provisions, this Health, the integrated health care system that encompasses St. Ms. Colleen Hegranes beginning to lay out - bill made Minnesota's tax Joseph's Medical Center and Brainerd Medical Center is collabo - College of St. Catherine, St. Paul though the nature of the tinues to push laws conform to recent rating with CentraCare Health System , based in St. Cloud, and (651)690-6501 cuts and impact on the need for federal changes, creating St. Mary’s Duluth Clinic Heart Center (SMDC). Mr. Lee Larson Minnesota children, fami - administrative updates. St. Gertrude's Health Center, Shakopee health care • SMDC Cancer Center has received an “Outstanding Achievement lies and communities Article 2 codified certain (952) 233-4408; [email protected] Award” from the Commission on Cancer recognizing excellence remain somewhat reform nationally. property tax changes and Mr. Chris Leifeld (ex-officio) in cancer care. SMDC is one of only 95 accredited cancer pro - unknown. clarified exemptions for Minnesota Catholic Conference, St. Paul grams across the country to receive this presti - From the Catholic institutions of purely pub - (651) 227-8777; [email protected] gious distinction in 2008. Health Association perspective, there were lic charity. Section 7 of this article includ - Mr. David Nelson clearly mixed results in this year’s session. ed language specifically for nursing homes • Colleen Scanlon , RN, JD, senior vice president, St. Francis Medical Center, Breckenridge On the positive side, an untold story of this On the Hospital side, there were Advocacy, Catholic Health Initiatives, Denver, has (218) 643-3000; [email protected] legislative session was the 22,000 more unfortunately many cuts that passed this been installed as chairperson of the Board of Ms. Kathy Tomlin children who will have access to year. One of the most drastic was the Trustees of the Catholic Health Association of the Catholic Charities – St. Paul/Mpls (CHA) for fiscal year 2009-10. I (651)291-4537; [email protected] Pearson cont. on page 7

A newsletter of the Catholic Health Association of Minnesota 1 ounded in 1968, under faith are consistent and unchanging.” Member F the direction of Central to the mission of the MCC is the principle that Without Love, Br. Sulmasy is ever, that even Taylor appreciates how far we have come. It Profile: Archbishop , the all life is sacred. The MCC advocates for public policies that the Clinton- is not just that the general Western culture is indifferent in Minnesota Catholic promote and support life from conception through natural We Perish Kilbride its views towards religion, such that if God exists, God does Conference (MCC) was death. The MCC actively identifies, formulates and seeks to Professor of not matter. I believe the reality is that our culture's funda - Minnesota established to be a implement public policy objectives that advance Gospel-Centered Medicine and mental views of beauty, truth and goodness have been dra - Catholic public policy voice the principles of Catholic social teaching and Health Care Is a Medical Ethics, matically transformed. Christian values no longer lurk for the Catholic promote the common good - yet in a distinctly schools of beneath the surface, subliminally directing all we think, do Conference Church in nonpartisan manner. Issues of interest include Radical Approach in Medicine and and say. At this historical juncture, I do not think it is an Minnesota. The health care, life, education, crime, poverty, eco - Today's Secular World Divinity, exaggeration to say that Nietzsche's transvaluation of the MCC’s structure nomic justice and marriage. Practically speak - University of values has taken hold of popular culture. The utter rejection reflects the United States Conference of Catholic ing the and staff of the Minnesota By Br. Daniel P. Sulmasy, OFM, MD, Ph.D. Chicago. of Christian values is no longer a phenomenon limited to a few members of the intellectual elite. Transvaluation of the Bishops (USCCB), whereby the bishops collaborate Catholic Conference seek opportunities to speak This article is a with other Catholics to address issues that concern on behalf of the values is the norm. We no longer believe, as the Catholic partial text of the keynote speech Br. Sulmasy prepared for the faith holds, that human beings are essentially good even if the Church as part of the larger society. Its commit - Church to legislators, 2009 Catholic Health Assembly. tees include lay people, and religious in addi - in addition to partner - tragically flawed. We have all become tion to the bishops. ing with other organi - ew York Times theater critic closet Hobbesians. We believe human The bishops themselves of Minnesota consti - zations such as the N Ben Brantley's review of the beings to be essentially self-interested rational maximizers who agree to moral tute the membership of the Conference and are Christopher Leifeld, Catholic Health recent Broadway revival of A Man for rules only out of the ultimately selfish served by a staff of approximately five lay people MCC Executive Director Association in their All Seasons can serve as an illustra - located in a small office building near the State common missions. tion of these problems (i.e., problems motive of survival. Morality is just a set of Capitol. Under the direction of Executive Director Chris Chris Leifeld serves as an ex-officio within health care: money, bureau - rules that keep us from killing each other Leifeld for the member on the board of directors cracy, indifference, burnout). In his in the war of all against all that is our true past seven for the Catholic Health Association. pointedly negative review, Brantley nature. The Minnesota years, the “The Conference of Bishops faulted not the production, nor the Am I not right? Don't our hospitals Catholic Conference Conference has have been consistently supportive acting, nor even the play, but the Br. Daniel P. Sulmasy operate this way? We are beholden to a seen many and grateful for the important work subject, Thomas More, as being out - completely secular ideology — sometimes even when we Archbishop John C. Nienstedt Recently appointed changes at the of the Catholic Health Association. dated. He found More "a bit of a bore," since he was actu - think we are acting as Christians. Everyone we encounter is Archdiocese of St. Paul and Auxiliary Lee A. State Capitol, It is through our collaborative efforts ally too good. This review can be contrasted with Brantley's now regarded as a customer — someone we serve ulti - Lee A. Piche Piche, Archdiocese of St. and has under - and unified voices that our work is fawning review of a recent revival of David Mamet's Speed mately only because it is in our self-interest to serve her. Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis Paul and Minneapolis gone many lasting and effective,” stated Chris the Plow, in which a secretary, who seems to be the play's Patients are our customers. Doctors, too, are our customers. Archbishop Emeritus Harry S. Flynn internal transi - Leifeld. I one good person, able to turn a hardened Hollywood pro - They are customers of the hospital, because treating doc - Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis tions of bishops ducer toward love, and even toward God, turns out in the tors well inclines them to admit patients to the hospital — Bishop Michael J. Hoeppner throughout the end to be nothing but a cunning, ruthless and ambitious they are the ones who really bring the business. Diocese of Crookston six Catholic dio - scoundrel, feigning virtue in order to make the big bucks. Alexander Solzhenitsyn once described ideology as a Bishop Emeritus Victor H. Balke ceses of According to Brantley, that's good theater. It shows us what lie that blocks our ability to see reality for what it is. And as Diocese of Crookston Minnesota. he believes is the real truth about human beings. Solzhenitsyn also told us once he arrived in the United Father James B. Bissonette “Having worked Now there are those, even in , who are con - States, the former Soviet Union had no monopoly on ideol - Diocese of Duluth with many dif - vinced that Christianity still supports the basic architecture ogy. This surprises us. We have become so steeped in the Bishop John M. Levoir ferent bishops of the Western soul, holding it together like the flying but - ideology of the market that we cannot even stand outside of Diocese of New Ulm over the past tresses of a cathedral, even though the altar has been it long enough to see it for what it is. We are compelled to Bishop John F. Kinney years, I am removed, the statues and the paintings placed in a muse - look for measurable business outcomes in everything we Diocese of St. Cloud inspired by the um, and the sanctuary turned into a theater of the absurd. do. This is the reality we have been conditioned to see. Bishop Emeritus Bernard J. Harrington Everything must be measurable. Only measurable outcomes stability of our Bishops meeting with Senate Majority Leader, Larry Pogemiller. On this account, all we need to do is to remind people of Diocese of Winona are real. Medicine is a business — and a tough one at that. mission and (l. to r., Bishop , Bishop Bernard Harrington, Bishop their Christian heritage and all will be well again. Bishop John M. Quinn Just a century ago, William Osler, the most famous work, as the Victor Balk, Archbishop Harry Flynn, Archbishop John C. But Brantley's reviews suggest a more sober reading Diocese of Winona physician since Hippocrates, said, "The practice of medi - principles of our Nienstedt, Bishop John Kinney) of the culture at large. Charles Taylor illustrates in his mas - terful work A Secular Age how the secular has become the cine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a call - default mode of thinking in society. But I am not sure, how - Sulmasy cont. on page 4

2 A newsletter of the Catholic Health Association of Minnesota A newsletter of the Catholic Health Association of Minnesota 3 Sulmasy cont. from page 3 regards itself as too sophisticated to believe in the other- her struggles with her nursing supervisor who is constantly We should, after regarding love that the New Testament calls agape. telling her to stop spending so much time with patients all, be measuring our Christian health care ing in which your heart will be exercised equally with your But St. Paul is telling us something different — in because they can't afford to pay her overtime, and how she programs by the light of must be based on head." What would we say about Osler if he spoke those words ever ancient and ever new. What Paul is saying, if says she doesn't care about overtime, she cares about her the Gospel, not inter - words today? Naïve old man. Actually a bit boring. Maybe a you can hear it, is that you may have crucifixes in every patients, and how her supervisor retorts that union rules preting the Gospel in love, and love is not socialist. patient's room; you may not have a single employee who preclude her from working overtime and not being paid for light of the latest busi - an abstraction. Love is not a measurable outcome. Love is not an would ever even think of performing an abortion; you may it. I hear her tell regularly of the tragic indifference of some ness school fad. ideology. It is, in fact, the only way to see reality as it truly have excellent services for the poor and the undocumented; of her nursing colleagues. But my own heart feels bigger Speaking with a reporter is. Love is not indifferent about out - but if you do not have love, you are when I hear her tell stories like the one she told our group for a Catholic publication about what I was going to say in comes. We want the best for our nothing. You are Zero. Zippo. Nada. not long ago about an elderly man with Alzheimer's dis - this talk was very illuminating. She kept trying to get me to patients. But the vision of love is far Practicing the healing arts as ease admitted for a urinary tract infection. He had had no say what sort of education program I would be recom - more comprehensive than outcomes. You may have crucifix - acts of love is not impossible. visitors during his three days in the hospital. She told us, in mending; what she should write about how ethics commit - Love encompasses motive and intention es in every patient’s Christians have been doing it for cen - her odd linguistic mixture of an Italian accent and Valley tees in Catholic hospitals should change their practices in and affect and process as well. turies — following upon their convic - Girl grammar, "I was, like, you know, really feeling bad for light of my talk; whether this would have implications for In his first encyclical, using the room; you may not tion that the One whom they have him. I mean, like, he seemed so lonely, you know, and, like, servant leadership programs underway at many Catholic identical words for his title, albeit trans - have a single employee met, the Mystery, the One who washes nobody else, like, seemed to care about him, you know, like, health care institutions. I said to her, this talk has more to lated into the Latin, Deus Caritas Est, who would ever even feet and proclaims that God is love, is as a person and all that. And when I came on the shift he do with a call for us to return to a fundamentally Christian Pope Benedict XVI begins by reminding the foundation of the universe and the had, like, wet the bed and, like, smelled of urine and stuff. orientation toward the world, with seeing Jesus' washing of us that the religion we profess, which is think of performing an only true healer. And it must have been that way for a really long time the feet of the disciples as normative, with understanding the foundation and the rationale for abortion; you may have And Christians are still doing it because the sheets were already, like dry, you know, and he that if we name a hospital after the Good Samaritan that Catholic health care, is not an ideology. today, in your hospitals, quietly, under had dried food all over his face and, like, no one else really we ought to start behaving as if we believed that these sto - Nor is it a philosophy of life nor even a excellent services for the radar. seemed to give a s_ _ _. But I couldn't be like that, you ries about the meaning of love were the true meaning of all moral code. It is, in the first instance, an the poor and the I am privileged to know quite a know. I mean I know he's like a real human being and he ethics. encounter — an encounter with a few such persons, and I suspect you needs to be loved and so I, like, figured I could be a few The secular has become the default mode. The idea Person — an encounter that changes undocumented; but if are as well. For the last six years I minutes late with the meds on the other patients and I, like, of Christian love itself has become a quaint relic of the past. everything. you do not have love, have been meeting monthly with a changed his sheets and stuff and got a wash cloth and In its place we now have management. We are frequently guilty, I think, group of fellow health care profession - washed his face so he'd look, like, decent and stuff. And Fundamentally, management is the science of figur - of turning the Catholicity of our hospi - you are nothing. als — a mixed group of physicians, well, I don't know, like, isn't this what it's about, I mean, ing out how to make people change their behaviors in con - tals into a moral code. More conserva - nurses, medical students and psychol - like, nursing? Like I know he can't make sense when he formity with your goals, while making them think that it tive institutions will boast of a code ogists. We are mostly, but not exclu - talks but that's no reason to let him sit there all dirty and was their idea in the first place. As Bellah et al., point out in which lists the things they will not do. More liberal institu - sively, Catholic Christians. Sometimes I think of us as a stuff. And, like, I know he can't thank me but, like, that's Habits of the Heart, we have become a culture of managers tions will boast of a code of social justice. The most base Christian Community in health care. Sometimes I let not why I became a nurse, right, like, to have people thank and therapists. The managers manipulate us, and the ther - Catholic institutions among us will boast of both. But none my imagination run a little wild and muse that we are in me? I mean, like, at least he smiled a little when I wiped his apists build us up again from the stresses induced both by of these codes can serve as replacements for the ever-new the catacombs, hiding from the bureaucrats who are ready face. But, like, you know, I just get so frustrated sometimes managing and by being managed. We even dare to try to and ever-renewing encounter with the person who is love. to feed us to the lions. But when I reflect on why I attend because no one else seems to see it this way." manage care, as if the kind of care of which Veronica spoke That encounter must be the foundation of our health care these meetings, I think it is, quite simply, to be supported in I could not help wondering, hearing her talk, whose so eloquently were something amenable to management. systems and our institutions. my faith as a Christian physician. This support comes face Veronica saw on that washcloth after she removed the The word 'manage' actually comes from the Italian maneg - We have so thoroughly domesticated the 13th chap - mostly from hearing other members of the group share with dried remains of lunch from that patient's face. giare (not mangiare, the verb to eat, but maneggiare), ter of St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians that it has lost the rest of us what it means for them to find God in their Veronica's nickname is Vero. What Vero sees is the which is the term for horse-handling. We are so immersed much of its power. We have turned it into a bit of wedding work. truth. We need her vision everywhere today. I am persuad - in the culture of management that we think we can manage kitsch, along with the synthetic fog of dry ice from which One among them is a young nurse named Veronica. ed that her experience must be very close to the experi - our way into the future of Catholic health care. What's the the newlyweds emerge, illuminated by stroboscopic lights, Her nickname is Vero, which means "True." She has a heart ences of Elizabeth Seton and Louise de Marrilac, and right program? Who's the right consultant? This is ideology to the deafening sound of the band playing their theme so huge that it can only be the case that it is someone Vincent de Paul, and Catherine McAuley, and the Beguines — the lie that blinds. song. But Paul's words are radical, dangerous and counter- else's heart that she is sharing with her patients. She has a who gave rise to the Alexian Brothers, and Francis of Assisi, This ideology is far more pervasive than health care. cultural. In a world in which Christian values have been fierce passion for people, for nursing, and for Christ. She is and Mother Alfred Moes, and so many countless others in Health care did not create this culture, and the solution is transvalued, we no longer even know what love means. Italian-born, was educated in the United States, and works whose shoes we stand today when we enter our Catholic not to be found in a new management program in our hos - MTV has turned love into a fleeting few moments of more in a secular university hospital. I hear her tell regularly of hospitals and nursing homes to work. or less simultaneous mutual self-gratification. Our culture Sulasy cont. on page 6

4 A newsletter of the Catholic Health Association of Minnesota A newsletter of the Catholic Health Association of Minnesota 5 Pearson cont. from page 1 the next biennium approaches another Sulmasy cont. from page 5 He is no ghost. Touch Him that you might believe. It is only five billion dollars. It has been critical that by His stripes that you can be healed. line-item veto of funds in fiscal year As our member organizations pitals and other health care facilities, to help us manage Quite obviously, a spirituality of health care that is 2011 for General Assistance Medical face the challenges of today, we take Catholic Health has had management. That is why Gospel-centered health care is only about our experiences of the Divine in the work we do Care (GAMC) which provides health hope that on the state level there is still such a radical idea. It is monumentally counter-cultural. It a unified voice in the will not be sufficient. I am a physician. That means I am a insurance to our poorest and most vul - time for the legislature to help solve the threatens the dominant ideology. practical person. We cannot jettison a commitment to com - nerable people, including many with long term deficit situation going into public discussion. Gospel-centered health care begins where the Gospel petence nor abandon our reach for excellence. All I am try - mental illness and disability. This is a next year’s session. Perhaps more begins — in an encounter with a Person. We meet that per - ing to say here today is that technical excellence, com - distressing turning away from our com - encouraging, though, is what may pass along with updated information. son in each patient that we serve — one at a time. Gospel mendable outcomes, and satisfied patients are not enough mitment to move toward coverage for come from the National Action on In a time that can be very dis - faith tells us that God is love. Love is ultimately an act of either. Even the Pharisees strive for as much. every person in Minnesota — and this Health Care Reform. As the situation couraging, it has been critical that surrender — surrender to our heart's deepest desire, which Christian health care must be based on love, and love will be a huge financial loss for hospi - becomes darker on state levels Catholic Health has had a unified voice is both of God and is not an abstraction. Love is concrete. We will need pro - tals, medical clinics, and mental health throughout the country, it continues to in the public discussion. As we have for God. The grams. We will need skilled administration. We will need centers. As examples, Hennepin County push the need for health care reform continued to work cooperatively with Gospel impels us to extraordinary physicians and nurses and chaplains and We are frequently Medical Center will lose over $100M nationally. It is clearly a hot topic in other organizations representing the serve our patients social workers and patient transporters and lab technicians. annually; Regions Hospital over $46M; many circles. We have already started interests of health care, we remain guilty, I think, of with love, full of the But unless all of this is pursued in love, it will come to St. Cloud Hospital, $12M; St. Joseph’s coordinating efforts with CHA-USA to committed to fighting for what we faith that the infi - nothing... turning the Catholicity in St. Paul, $4.4M; St. Mary’s in make sure that the Catholic Voice is believe is right – promoting health and nite God is incar - Precisely when the going is toughest and we are Rochester, $19.3M; St. Mary’s in heard on National Health Care reform. well-being for all persons and commu - of our hospitals into a nate in our world, frantically busy putting out so many fires that we think we Duluth, $9.3M, and so forth across the There are frequent CHA-USA updates nities, respecting the dignity and especially in the have no time for spirituality in the workplace is exactly the moral code. state. on the proposals that I will continue to I sick. sacredness of every human life. time in which we must return to fundamentals. In Older Adult Services, there Now I am Management can't do this. The kind of health care workers were many cuts and delays as well. A sure that there are plenty of you who have deep doubts • Congratulations to the Mayo we want in our corridors will not be persuaded by slogans couple of the lowlights include: NEWS AND NOTES about everything I have been saying. You may think this is Clinic, St. Mary’s Duluth and adapted from Henry Ford. Only through grace and our • Rebasing of care center rates con - all vague, pious, abstract and irrelevant to the work we openness to the gifts of the Holy Spirit can we do this. We HealthPartners for recently tinues, but the phase-in of the Prague; Innovation of the Year in must undertake — which is not only assuring the survival must return to a conception of the whole health care proj - being recognized as leaders in rebased portion of the rate is Patient Care Award Large of Catholic health care, but providing for its flourishing in ect as an enterprise based squarely upon love. We must health care reform and efficien - frozen for four years. For the Hospital Category, HealthEast the 21st century. Some of you may even think that what I start our ethics there. We must start our administration cies by Senator Amy Klobuchar October 1, 2013 rate year, the Perinatal Safety Collaborative; have said is plainly untrue. in an article for the Star Tribune there. We must start every operation performed in our hos - phased-in rate will go to 65 per - But if what I have been saying is irrelevant at best, or Health Care Career Promotion pitals there. We must start each spoonful of medicine we cent of fully rebased rate. • The U.S. News & World Report a distracting fairy tale at worst, then the Gospel itself is Award - Large Hospital Category, administer, crushed and mixed with applesauce, right there. • The October 1, 2008 1% tempo - has published their annual list either irrelevant or a fairy tale. And we might as well all go St. Cloud Hospital's high school If we do not, whatever else we might be doing, we will not rary nursing facility rate increase for the top children’s hospitals. home, dissolve this organization, and merge with the student internship program and be doing Catholic health care. was not funded and will expire on The Mayo Clinic was recognized American Hospital Association. But before we do that, I educational scholarships; and America desperately needs faith-based health care. September 20, 2009. As a result, under six specialty rankings, would invite all of you, in all of your doubt, to go down to Best Minnesota Hospital But such counter-cultural health care will not be an easy nursing facility operating rates will amidst three other Minnesota your hospital's emergency room when you return from this Workplace - Large Hospital sell. It is a common human tragedy that we avoid the decrease by 1%. children’s hospitals. meeting and visit the trauma section. Don't just visit and Category, St. Cloud Hospital . things we most deeply need and want. And so faith-based • Provider Rates were cut by 2.58% observe like an outsider. Don't go there with any precon - • Eighteen Minnesota hospital rep - • Benedictine Health System has health care will also have to be hope-based care — care for all long-term care providers, ceptions. Try for a few seconds actually to cast aside your resentatives and programs were recently launched a care-at- based on the hope that we can actually pull this off even in including Elderly Waiver and ideologies. Don't divorce yourself from the experience by honored at the 25th-annual home design team as part of its the 21st century. Because what we all desperately need and Alternative Care (but excluding abstract observation. Put on a gown and a pair of gloves Minnesota Hospital Association future vision and mission to care want is loved-based care. Of the three things that last, we Nursing Facilities). and stick your hands into the bloody wounds of one of the (MHA) Awards banquet, includ - for Catholic elders, said Dale must never forget that the greatest of these is love. All in all, the session was a great patients being treated there. Feel the warm blood of life. I ing: Volunteer of the Year, Thompson , chief executive offi - May the Lord give you peace. disappointment to many groups. The Experience the pulse of the beating heart of a fellow human Corene Kain of St. Cloud cer for the Minnesota-based subsequent announced unallotments being. I can guarantee you that the Wounded One is there. Hospital ; Spirit of Advocacy organization that will mark its Reprinted with permission by the Catholic Health Association, will only further hurt families and facili - Touch him. Really touch him. Touch his reality and see that Award, Mary Klimp , CEO of 25th anniversary in 2010. 2009. ties. In the future, barring an economic Queen of Peace Hospital in New turnaround, the forecasted deficit for News cont. on page 8

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