Tag: Health
Culturally tailored maternity care lifts healthy Indigenous birth rate: Vic study
A culturally tailored midwifery program has significantly improved birth outcomes for First Nations babies, with a major Victorian study showing a 45 per cent increase in healthy births.
CHA calls for system-wide reform to tackle hospital bed block
Catholic Health Australia says solving hospital bed block will require reform across hospitals, aged care, disability services and housing, warning the problem is costing the health system up to $1.6 billion a year.
‘Pray, hope, don’t worry’: When pandemic fears return
Reports of new disease outbreaks are reviving memories of the COVID-19 pandemic for some Australians. Three experts offer advice on how to avoid becoming fearful.
Where grace and faith meet sport
Holsworthy’s free community basketball program gives children a place away from their devices to learn crucial sport and social skills.
Catholic Health Australia calls for widespread healthcare reform
Director of Strategy and Mission of Catholic Health Australia Brigid Meaney says more should be done to keep private hospitals operational, a position her organisation will be platforming ahead of the federal election.
“An inspiration:” Sydney remembers David Polson
Community leader David Polson AM has died at the age of 70 after a long life of advocacy, philanthropy, and support of St Vincent’s Hospital founders, the Sisters of Charity.
Bankstown nurses stood down after anti-Semitic video emerges
Two Bankstown Hospital nurses have been stood down from their positions after a video surfaced of them claiming they would kill any Israeli patients they came across.
Shocking stats in new VAD report
The first annual report on euthanasia and assisted suicide contains some shocking data, including a 50 per cent increase in deaths since the last reporting period, writes Monica Doumit.
Updated: Vatican announces Pope hospitalised for respiratory infection
Pope Francis was admitted to hospital with infectious bronchitis, and is responding well to treatment, according to the Vatican. He is likely to be released in a few days, but it is as yet unclear whether he will lead Palm Sunday services in Rome
More time on pitch for kids with primary inter-school competition
Sydney Catholic Schools conference four has launched a two-part primary interschool sports program to increase partiticaption and healthy competition.
People before problems
Modern Catholic hospitals are ideal places to nurture people in a holistic way, says bioethicist
Hospitality is the DNA of healthcare, and hospitals should rediscover...
Catholic Parents of Unvaccinated Kids Plead: Take COVID-19 Seriously
Some people at risk of serious harm from infectious diseases are being forgotten in COVID-19 culture wars, even within faith communities where they should expect to receive the most support
