FAMVIN News

From March 16th-20th, Fracarita International, founded by the “Belgian St. Vincent”, participated in an international conference on inclusive development of persons with disabilities in New Delhi,India. Bro. Jos Mathijssen, coordinator of Fracarita International, contributed with a presentation of inclusion in Belgium. Edel Nair, Regional Coordinator Fracarita India, and Bro. Jos Mathijssen, coordinator Fracarita International, participated in an international conference titled “Global [...]

(St. Louis) March 16, 2012 – Ascension Health Alliance, the parent organization of Ascension Health, and Daughters of Charity Health System (DCHS), a regional health system with 22 sites, including six hospitals, providing patient care on the California coast, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) intended to lead to DCHS to becoming part of [...]

The Daughters of Charity Health System, which operates Seton Medical Center and several other Bay Area hospitals, has signed a memorandum of understanding to join the nation’s largest Catholic health care system, Ascension Health Alliance. So writes the SanFrancisco Business Times. The tentative deal was jointly announced Friday afternoon. The Los Altos Hills-based Daughters of Charity — once part of [...]

Sr. Carol Keehan, DC speaking on behalf of the Catholic Health Association has released an updated statement on the recent HHS position on a narrow religious exemption for Catholic institutional employers. CHA and its members were profoundly disappointed to learn that the definition of a religious employer was not going to be broadened in the [...]

The New Orleans-area system of primary care clinics for the poor and underinsured will receive an $8.3 million infusion as part of the settlement in a long-running class-action liability suit against health-care and pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson. Under an order by U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon, Daughters of Charity will receive $1 million toward construction [...]

Twenty-five years ago in beautiful Chechadi Valley in Jharkhand state resides Nazareth Health Center opened by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth at the request of the people of Sale and Kutuderi, to minister to the health needs of this rural area. A four minute video tells their story. Related FAMVIN Posts:Nazareth Sisters and value [...]

Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care spoke at the 64th World Health Assembly, His address was dedicated to the theme ‘Guaranteeing Universal Access to Medical Care‘. He said: “The World Health Report 2010 emphasizes health system financing as the conduit to the much desired universal coverage in health service [...]

A Vatican-appointed panel of scientists has reported what climate change experts have been warning for years: the Earth is getting warmer, glaciers are melting, and urgent measures are necessary to stem the damage. “ We call on all people and nations to recognise the serious and potentially irreversible impacts of global warming caused by the anthropogenic [...]

As we begin to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, one example of this service that should be highlighted is the work of the Sisters of Charity at Satterlee Military Hospital. The sisters ministered to thousands of wounded and dying Civil War soldiers from 1862 until the hospital closed in 1865. Initially, the hospital was fairly [...]

From Zafen … HAITIANS ARE THIRSTY FOR CLEAN WATER! Your donation can give families in Cayes-Jacmel a ceramic clean water filter certified as the best way to purify water if it isn’t boiled. This project will  provide safe drinking water to as many rural families as possible. It’s one of the most important projects ever posted on [...]