June 2008
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SSM Healthcare in St. Louis decides to stop... →
It seems that a bottled water ban is a heroic witness of stewardship.
I admire the courage this project requires - the necessary culture shift of the individual institutions across the system is an incredible undertaking.
Catholic Acronyms
During an intense week of healthcare acronym education, I was reminded of some mission specific acronyms:
ERDs - Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Healthcare Services
CHA - Catholic Health Association of the United States
PJP - Public Juridic Persons
CICLSAL - Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
BVM - Blessed Virgin Mary...
Healthcare Acronyms
I just completed my first full day of fellowship orientation.
I sat in a room with newly-minted MHAs and listened to presentations made by SVPs. It became clear that, as a FTE, with a background in theology, I needed to learn a new language - Healthcare Acronyms.
A quick Google search revealed a few helpful sites:
Wikipedia - Acronyms in Healthcare
The Acronym Finder
The Wikipedia list is...
Public Juridic Persons?
A phrase like this might bring to mind long hours spent in a jury duty waiting room.
Luckily, in a recent edition of Health Progress, an article by Fr. Charles Bouchard, O.P. sheds some light on “public juridic persons” (or PJPs) and it has nothing to do with courtrooms.
In the article, Health Care as ‘Ministry’: Common Usage, Confused Theology, Bouchard explains a PJP...