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Holy Name’s support stabilizes hospital amid unrelenting turmoil in Haiti By JULIE MINDA
Cedar Wang, Holy Name vice president for nursing, left, provides training to Nirva Fils-Aime, director of community services at Hôpital Sacré Coeur in Haiti. The two are at the Russell Berrie Institute for Simulation Learning at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, New Jersey. Some Milot, Haiti, providers travel to the U.S. for training.
Holy Name Medical Center President and CEO Michael Maron clearly recalls the pivotal meeting he had about a dozen years ago with the leadership of Hôpital Sacré Coeur in Milot, Haiti, to launch the New Jersey medical center’s partnership with that North Haiti hospital. Holy Name’s foundation had just taken over sponsorship of the struggling Haitian hospital, and Maron was telling the leaders there about Holy Name’s vision for how the transition would take place. His speech was met with blank stares. When he asked why everyone was so disengaged from this fresh start, a surgeon spoke up, noting that Maron was just the latest in a long procession of “blancs” — or foreigners — who had swooped in from the U.S. to tell the Haitians how to do things. They were sure Maron would disappear just as quickly as so many of the other
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Staffing mandates spark deep concern for long-term care providers By LISA EISENHAUER
Executives at Catholic health systems that provide long-term care say while they support the goals of new federal staffing mandates for nursing homes, they see a disconnect between the goals and the rules. Scott LaRue, president and CEO of New York-based ArchCare, noted that the mandates finalized April 22 by the Biden administration largely ignore the ongoing funding and workforce challenges vexing long-term care providers. “They’re not part of the solution to solve those problems,” LaRue said. “I find the whole thing very problematic and superficial in the approach.” In its announcement, the White House said the rules fulfill the president’s commitments to give Americans access to safe long-term care and to promote quality in caregiving jobs. “Medicare and Medicaid pay billions Continued on 14
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How to address physician burnout? Ascension’s on the case By VALERIE SCHREMP HAHN
Jennifer Nochez, a certified nurse aide at Benedictine Living Community — New Brighton, Minnesota, talks with a resident. The system has found nurse aides challenging to recruit in some places.
It would take a nearly 27-hour day for physicians to follow all nationally recommended guidelines to care for an average number of patients, according to a 2022 study. When he was starting work addressing clinician burnout around 2015, Dr. Aaron Shoemaker remembers another study that said it would take “only” 22 hours. “That’s a long day,” he quipped. “There’s not a lot of sleep in there.” Shoemaker is a co-lead with Dr. Jennifer Stanley of the Ascension National Clinician Engagement and Well-Being Council, Continued on 15