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Oct. 31 This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Mobile clinics bring rural areas access to long-acting forms of birth control, and doctors say people have developed opioid addiction from drinking tea made with unwashed poppy seeds. Oct. 24 This week on the KFF Health News Minute: Low-wage health care workers struggle with post-traumatic…
As Nuns Disappear, Many Catholic Hospitals Look More Like Megacorporations
ST. LOUIS — Inside the more than 600 Catholic hospitals across the country, not a single nun can be found occupying a chief executive suite, according to the Catholic Health Association. Nuns founded and led those hospitals in a mission to treat sick and poor people, but some were also shrewd business leaders. Sister Irene…