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Mercy Hot Springs hospital now St. Vincent Hot Springs

WEBThe Hot Springs hospital will get a new name — again — and interim CEO. St. Joseph Mercy Medical Center was renamed Mercy Hot Springs in April 2012. Effective April 1 it is known as St. Vincent Hot Springs. Thomas Fitz, interim president, has previously worked with CHI in Kansas and Morrilton. He also served for nearly a decade as CEO for

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Mercy Health, Catholic Health Initiatives sign letter

WEBThe two sides hope to finalize a deal by Dec. 31. HOT SPRINGS — The plan for Catholic Health Initiatives to buy Mercy Hospital Hot Springs is moving forward. Mercy Health of St. Louis and CHI of Denver signed a non-binding letter of intent Oct. 11 to sell the 282-bed Hot Springs hospital to CHI and its affiliate, St. Vincent Health System in

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Catholic health care will never be the same after COVID

WEBThe CHI St. Vincent Health System, in both Little Rock and Hot Springs, dropped 347 employees from fiscal year 2020, to 4,158 for 2021. A spokesman for the hospital noted that program and service line changes also contributed to the dip. However, employees who stayed went above and beyond. Jones said in the early days of the …

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Hospitals' name change is 'a natural evolution'

WEBROGERS -- On April 30, final name changes will occur for two Catholic hospitals -- St. Edward Mercy Medical Center in Fort Smith and St. Joseph Mercy Medical Center in Hot Springs.

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Medical ministry will soon have Little Rock location

WEBSince 2021, Divine Mercy Health Center has completed 13 missions, setting up free health clinics at St. Theresa and Our Lady of Good Counsel churches and the Cathedral of St. Andrew in Little Rock, serving in the most vulnerable areas even without a brick-and-mortar facility. The Wilburs are planning to expand their service into North …

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New clinic in Fort Smith provides care to women in need

WEBA new clinic in Fort Smith serves women who need medical care but can’t afford it. McAuley Clinic was established in 2019 as an obstetrics and gynecology clinic to solve several challenges and fulfill its mission to “bring to life the healing ministry of Jesus.”. Before the clinic opened, many pregnant women in the city couldn’t get an

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Catholic doctor hopeful for COVID vaccine within a year

WEBDr. Lee Wilbur has been on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. He is an emergency room physician at CHI St. Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock, working with COVID-19 patients, and also contracted the virus himself this summer.

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New life coming to old St. Mary Hospital building in Rogers

WEBPublished: October 18, 2008. By Marilyn Lanford. Rogers Correspondent. Dave Turner. The old St. Mary Hospital, one block from St. Vincent de Paul Church in Rogers, has been boarded up since March. Soon the building will be transformed into a center for several non-profit agencies. ROGERS -- There it stands on the main street of Rogers

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Don’t sign new abortion petition, Bishop Taylor asks

WEBBishop Anthony B. Taylor is encouraging Catholics to not sign a petition that could put a constitutional amendment on the November ballot to allow abortion through 18 weeks after conception. On Jan. 23, Attorney General Tim Griffin approved a ballot measure, called the Arkansas Abortion Amendment, that would allow abortion for any …

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Memphis doctor promotes benefits of NFP at clinic

WEBDr. Michael Podraza. Dr. Michael Podraza is one of fewer than 100 doctors, by his estimation, who have a clinic and practice solely on the notion of NFP, studying fertility and solving infertility issues naturally. He opened St. Francis Women’s Health & Fertility in Memphis, Tenn., two years ago and sees many patients who travel from out of

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Mercy Hospital sale moving forward in Hot Springs

WEBPublished: August 25, 2012. By Phyllis Hemann. Associate Editor. Mercy Health is moving ahead in plans to sell Mercy Hospital Hot Springs, formerly known as St. Joseph Mercy Medical Center, to Capella Healthcare. Capella Healthcare owns National Park Medical Center, also in Hot Springs. The merger of non-profit Mercy Hospital Hot Springs with

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Eric Pianalto named president of Mercy Hospital NWA

WEBThis could be said of Eric Pianalto, Tontitown’s own native son, who was recently named president of Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas. Born 47 years ago in St. Mary Hospital in Rogers, Pianalto has grown up with and seen first-hand changes occur in his community and the hospital system where he now daily walks the halls. Case in …

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Catholic Charities of Arkansas director moving to New York …

WEB15 Young Adults Who Inspire Us 2023 Back to School 2023 Eucharistic Revival launches parish year High schools celebrate 2023 graduations Vocations 2023 Possibilities! in Catholic schools New Catholics 2023 Lent 2023 Journeying Together Synod 2021-2023 Young Faith

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'Holistic health care' goes on in Gould, Dumas 20 years later

WEBThe Daughters of Charity in Gould and Dumas paused from their crowded schedule of patients and paperwork to remember the founding of DePaul Health Center and St. Elizabeth Health Center in two southeast Arkansas towns twenty years ago.

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