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Catholic rehab makes all the difference
People recovering from serious injuries, strokes, life-changing illnesses, and catastrophic accidents often need more than just physical rehabilitation.
Their spirits also need to be uplifted. That is an important insight the staff at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals in Nebraska understands infinitely well.
Rehab involves much more than physical adjustment
"Our patients and our families are sometimes struggling to understand the reason for their condition, not only just the physical aspects of it," said Paul Dongilli Jr., the president and CEO of Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals.
Dongilli, a speech pathologist by training who is a member of Legatus' Lincoln Chapter, said people come from 24 different states, as far away as Alaska and Washington State, to be treated at one of Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals' two locations, in Omaha and Lincoln.
Physicians and nurses in those other states often refer their patients to Madonna because of the cutting-edge, first-rate rehabilitative care that is matched by the psycho-social and spiritual care offered at the facilities.
"When those individuals are paired with our social workers and our psychologists, they're able to deal with the psycho- social aspects of a devastating injury or illness," said Dongilli, who has been with Madonna since 1983.
Whereas most hospitals and care centers have small rehabilitation units on-site, Dongilli said Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals are one of the only, if not the lone, freestanding Catholic rehabilitation facilities in the country.
"We're not part of a larger acute care system, and in most acute care systems, rehabilitation is a small part of what they do," Dongilli said. "Maybe they don't invest in the technology and have the resources that are needed to treat patients who have had devastating spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, children as well as adults, where we have, because that's all we do."
Founded by Benedictine nuns – with a priest in residence
Benedictine nuns founded Madonna Rehabilitshort-term recovery and room for another 125 individuals who have chronic conditions and require longer-term care. The Omaha facility opened in 2016 and has room for 110 patients.
The facilities today are sponsored by the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, and they retain a distinctive Catholic identity.
Madonna has a Catholic priest in residence, and offers daily Mass and access to the sacraments for patients, their families, and staff. Both locations have beautiful chapels and sacred art throughout the facilities.
"When you come into the facility, the look is such we think that it reinforces that Catholic identity," Dongilli said, adding that spiritual care is offered for people of different religious and denominational backgrounds.
Patients come from afar
From its beginnings 60 years ago, Dongilli said Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals has evolved into a health care system that serves patients from around the country, primarily from an eight-state region in the Midwest.
"When individuals and their families are faced with these horrific injuries and they're looking for a facility to help them, in most areas they're told that they don't have those resources," Dongilli said, adding that trauma centers in other states that work with Madonna are quick to refer their patients to the Nebraska facilities.
"So people are willing to travel to access a resource that they can't get in their immediate community," Dongilli said.
Madonna has a dedicated pediatric unit and long-term care for patients who require ventilators. The staff specializes in complex medical, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, pulmonary conditions, severe stroke, other neurological conditions, and pediatric rehabilitation.
Offering hope, spiritual recovery
Dongilli, who worked in Madonna's brain injury and stroke units and worked his way up to chief operating officer and then CEO three years ago, said Madonna offers hope and healing to thousands of patients every year.
"What we provide is a more holistic approach to care, balancing the more physical aspects of medicine, nursing, and therapy with more of the psycho-social and spiritual aspects of recovery," he said.
In addition to the chapel, Dongilli said Madonna has a large therapy gym and carefully manicured grounds that contribute to the peaceful, spiritual, and mentally healing atmosphere.
"We have been very careful over the years to have green space and nature and some beautiful settings that are part of God's creation that our families and our patients can access to have some quiet time or for reflection," Dongilli said. "Those things, we think, very much make a difference and aid in the recovery process. It helps provide hope."
In addition to focusing on the mental and spiritual healing, Madonna's team of specialized physiatrists, hospitalists, therapists, rehabilitation nurses, clinicians, and researchers work with advanced technology and equipment to help each patient achieve the highest level of independence possible.
Research institute developing new technologies
Dongilli said Madonna has "a small but mighty" research institute that has been successful in developing technology to support rehabilitation efforts, and added that the technology is now being commercialized and sold to other health care facilities in the United States and abroad.
"We think we have the opportunity now in working with the University of Nebraska to expand our research efforts and develop equipment and technology that will help advance the field of rehabilitation and the outcomes of the patients that we serve," Dongilli said.
Dongilli added that Madonna started a department to train physicians, and recently accepted the first group of residents from the University of Nebraska's College of Medicine who will be trained in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
"I think what the future holds for us is to be a regional center, not only for the treatment of patients, but also a training facility for physicians and other professionals specializing in rehabilitation," Dongilli said.
Founded with Mary's blessing
The founding Benedictine Sisters named the facility after the Madonna because 1958 was a Marian year, said Dongilli.
"They had a vision that if individuals could have good nursing care and therapy care, that folks who previously had to be institutionalized could return back to their homes and to their communities," Dongilli said. "They really established a vision for rehabilitation. They recognized the blessings that Mary would provide for their efforts and for hopefully sustaining the hospital and the facility."
Despite changes in medicine and technology over the decades, Dongilli said Madonna's core philosophy remains the same.
"That notion of doing God's work, a vision for doing rehabilitation under the guidance of the Blessed Mother, has really been a core tenet for us," he said.
BRIAN FRAGA is a Legatus magazine staff writer.
This entry was posted in Featured, Features and tagged catholic, Catholic health care, healing, health, physical illness, recovery, rehabilitation, technology on October 1, 2018 by admin.
Following the Doctor-Saint of faithful medicine
Through medical clinics that bear her name, St. Gianna Molla continues to provide health care to families around the globe while proving to society that modern medicine can be practiced along ethical and religious guidelines.
Two Legates who are physicians – Doctors Max Mercado in Philadelphia and Robin Goldsmith in Green Bay, Wisconsin – have drawn inspiration from the 20th century Milanese pediatrician who was a devout Catholic, wife, and mother who sacrificed her own life in a troubled pregnancy so that her fourth child could be born.
Mercado and Goldsmith have opened clinics named for St. Gianna Molla in their respective cities, who was canonized in 2004 by Pope St. Pope John Paul II. Though she died in 1962 at age 39, St. Gianna's story and her pro-life example continues to inspire people around the world. The Legates who have opened clinics under her patronage believe St. Gianna has a role to play in reforming medicine and ushering in a true culture of life.
PHILADELPHIA – HONORING SANCTITY OF LIFE, MARRIAGE
The Gianna Center of Philadelphia opened in March after about a year of planning, said Mercado, the president of Legatus' Bucks County Chapter who will serve as the center's CEO.
"The goal and purpose of the Gianna Center of Philadelphia is to lay down a foundation for the culture of life to flourish in the lives of individuals and families," said Mercado, adding that the clinic offers general gynecological care, natural family planning education, and infertility services.
Those services are provided while honoring the sanctity of human life, the dignity of women, and the integrity of marriage.
"We are following the teachings of the Church," said Mercado, who explained that the St. Gianna Center does not provide services such as in vitro fertilization. To assist couples experiencing difficulty conceiving, the clinic uses NaProTechnology, a medical and surgical technique used to treat the direct source of various gynecologic and reproductive health conditions.
"We also refer to social services families that are in need," Mercado said. "And as a mission, we seek to provide pro-life reproductive health care to women and families that follow the bishops' ethical and religious directives for Catholic health care services."
The Catholic community in Philadelphia, a city with a large number of medical schools, encountered St. Gianna's story during the World Meeting of Families that was held there in 2015. St. Gianna's youngest child, Gianna Emanuela Molla, (herself a physician), attended the event and shared her testimony of growing up as the daughter who was saved by her saintly mother. St. Gianna was also a co-patron of the event.
"This is a saint who captures the imagination of a lot of young women who are exposed to secularism and the culture of death," Mercado said. "We're saying to them, 'Come out of darkness. Come into the light.'"
The Gianna Center of Philadelphia is located in the city's northeast section and is affiliated with the National Gianna Center Network, which has a string of clinics in New York, New Jersey, Kansas City, and Wisconsin.
The clinic in Philadelphia is also staffed with Dr. Delia Larrauri and Barbara Rose, a nurse practitioner, providing direct care for women and families. Mercado said he and the center's staff and directors have been getting the word out to local Catholic agencies. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia has also given the center his blessing.
"The centers are pro-woman, pro-families, and they're prolife," Mercado said, adding that there is a need for medical facilities that offers women's health and fertility services through a pro-life perspective. All too often, OB-GYN practices in Philadelphia and across the country see no problems with prescribing birth control pills to address a variety of conditions such as menstrual cramps and irregular cycles.
"There are other treatments besides oral contraceptive pills," Mercado said. "I mean, what are we doing here? Are we really giving choices to women or are we just going along with whatever the common treatments are and forgetting about the women's beliefs?"
Being named for a 20th century woman who went to medical school, got married in her 30s, had children, worked as a physician, and is a canonized saint in the Catholic Church can only help the clinic's mission.
Said Mercado, "Her life is an amazing story."
GREEN BAY – LAUNCHED BY FEMALE PHYSICIAN AND MOTHER
Dr. Goldsmith, a member of Legatus' Northeast Wisconsin Chapter, was praying in Eucharistic adoration when St. Gianna's name came to her mind.
"I knew almost nothing about St. Gianna. I knew her name, but very little about her," said Goldsmith, who a few years ago was asked by a fellow Legate to launch an initiative to bring back "faithful medicine" because the medical field was headed "in the wrong direction."
Asked to think about it, Goldsmith said that for several weeks she prayed, pondered, and discussed the idea with friends and family. Eventually she concluded that something had to be done in the form of a Catholic medical clinic that took care of all people.
"You see women's clinics, you see family practice clinics, but there aren't many clinics that really emphasize taking care of everyone from the beginning of conception to natural end of life," Goldsmith said. "Everyone needs to be cared and loved in dignity and respect according to our faith."
After deciding to start a new clinic under St. Gianna's patronage, Goldsmith said she scheduled a meeting to get the approval of Bishop David L. Ricken of Green Bay. The bishop loved the idea, gave her his blessing and asked what she planned to name the clinic.
Before she could answer, the bishop told Goldsmith that St. Gianna's name had come to him in prayer. Stunned, Goldsmith said she had had a similar experience. The bishop replied, "Well, of course it did. That's the Holy Spirit."
"It's been one event after another just like that," said Goldsmith, who noted that many of the clinic's major events, such as its opening day and consecrating Mass, have occurred on Marian feast days.
"We feel very strongly that Mary has been very involved in making this clinic unfold," said Goldsmith, the president and chief medical officer of the St. Gianna Clinic in Green Bay.
The clinic is aligned with the Hospital Sisters Health System, and is located across the street from HSHS St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center. The clinic offers family medicine and a complete range of OB-GYN services and treatments, including pregnancy and fertility care. The clinic is staffed by Doctors Scott Stillwell and Melissa Weidert.
Like its counterpart in Philadelphia, the St. Gianna Clinic in Green Bay does not provide treatments that violate Church teachings. The center offers NaProTechnology and uses the Creighton Model Fertility Care System to diagnose a woman's specific health condition.
"The approach is very beautiful. It's about restoring a woman' body back to health instead of just covering it up with medication," Goldsmith said.
In addition to medical services, the clinic offers spiritual support. The staff prays together and with patients. In the waiting room are first and second class relics of St. Gianna Molla.
"Personally for me, I feel an incredible closeness to St. Gianna because she was a female physician, a mother of four, as am I, and a wife who was extremely pro-life and loved to teach about the faith, especially as it pertained to medicine," said Goldsmith, who hopes her clinic will be one of many such facilities across the country that will change the face of Catholic healthcare in St. Gianna's image.
"She completely embodies what we do here at the St. Gianna clinic," Goldsmith said. "We believe that every life is beautiful, every life is worthy of respect, honor and dignity. Just as she honored every patient and every life that she encountered, we try to do the same here."
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Treating the frail as Christ did
Catholic health care has always seen its mission of providing healing and compassion to the suffering as an extension of the healing ministry of Christ.
In his 1995 encyclical The Gospel of Life, St. John Paul II wrote that health care personnel have a "unique responsibility" in that their profession "calls for them to be guardians and servants of human life."
"Health care professionals," the Catholic bishops of the United States have stated in a similar vein in their Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, "pursue a special vocation to share in carrying forth God's life-giving and healing work."
Recently a few Legates who are doctors shared how their Catholic faith intersects with their work in the medical profession.
Compassion for the most vulnerable
As an ophthalmologist who specializes in retinal problems, Dr. Kenneth Diddie has spent many years screening premature babies in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a common but sometimes serious condition. Lowbirthweight babies born at 24 or 25 weeks' gestation are the most prone to developing ROP.
"If I find threshold levels of this condition, I perform laser treatment on the baby's eyes in the NICU to prevent retinal detachment and blindness," explained Diddie, a Legate of the Ventura/LA North Chapter in southern California.
That work, along with Church teaching on the sanctity of human life, helped spur his conversion to Catholicism in 2001. What caught his attention was the debate over restrictions on late-term abortions, in which "prochoice" organizations argue that abortion should remain legal and available throughout pregnancy, even up to 40 weeks.
"When I heard people defending late-term or partial-birth abortion, it was clear to me that they were okay with killing babies older than those I was screening and lasering," said Diddie, who was Episcopalian at the time.
"The fact that the Catholic Church was opposed to aborting human life at any age was a major factor in my joining the Church."
Although he also treats adults, Diddie is particularly passionate about treating premature infants, which he says "are the most vulnerable and at risk." Many of his young patients face other physical and socio-economic hurdles, so he will treat them regardless of their families' insurance coverage or ability to pay. "I want to make sure, to the best of my ability, that they do not have the additional burden of decreased vision or blindness," he said.
He hopes his actions — his compassion and care for his patients — speak louder than words: "Even though I do not go around blowing my own trumpet, I think my attitudes are not lost on those in our office or in the hospitals." His efforts come with rewards. "Several years ago, the mother of one of the babies that needed laser treatment sent me a photo of her son graduating from college," Diddie recounted. "She thought I would like to see how my work had been beneficial to him. "That outcome, compared with what was possible as recently as 60 years ago, is indeed miraculous."
Using God-given talents to serve others
Dr. Stephen A. Olenchock, chief of cardiovascular surgery at St. Luke's University Health Network in Bethlehem, PA., believes Catholics should let faith guide their work regardless of profession, including health care.
"Daily, as a cardiac surgeon, you may be introduced to new people who may have serious medical conditions which placed then in a vulnerable situation both physically and emotionally," said Olenchock, a Legate of the Lehigh Valley Chapter. "My Catholic faith tells me to attempt to meet people where they are, and to try to use my God-given talents to the best of my ability to help care for others."
Olenchock has performed some 800 cardiac surgeries, most of them involving heart valve procedures. It's a serious undertaking that goes well the majority of the time, but occasionally difficult situations arise. He may have to help families deal with the loss of a loved one, or to prepare them to deal with the stress and challenges when a patient requires a long recovery.
"Some of these situations affect not only the families of patients, but the entire staff of caregivers involved with the patient," said Olenchock. "I very frequently, although privately, pray for my patients and their families, especially in these very difficult situations. I often pray for God just to give me the strength to use my talent to the fullest, and this helps me in the stress of situations."
On many occasions — often in unexpected, miraculous ways — his experiences as a surgeon has strengthened his faith in God, he said. The "most memorable" case involved emergency surgery he performed on a patient whom he felt certain would not survive the operation. "I actually remember thinking that everything I am doing to try to save this person was not working, and it seemed as if I was actually trying to stop something God had planned," he said. When the patient "miraculously survived," it was clearly due to something more than the medical intervention provided.
"I personally witnessed the power of prayer from his family and from all of the medical providers," said Olenchock. "This was a big part of my own personal faith journey, and really helped strengthen my belief in God and life ever after in his Kingdom of Heaven."
For 'the least of my brothers'
Dr. John Marta, a Colorado Springs (CO) Chapter Legate, has retired from the practice of anesthesiology, but he gladly continues to give public talks about his favorite subject, the Holy Land.
A native of Jerusalem who immigrated to the United States in 1960 to attend college and medical school, Marta came from a devoutly Catholic family and received his early education in Franciscan schools. His father was a longtime Catholic school principal as well as an official organist to the Holy Land, where he played for the High Masses at Jerusalem's Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre and for the Christmas Midnight Mass at Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. His mother, who converted to Catholicism, was the daughter of a Greek Orthodox elder in Bethlehem.
"My faith has always been in the forefront of my professional life," said Marta, who retired in 2014 after more than four decades of private practice in Colorado Springs, where he was a longtime chief of anesthesia at Penrose Hospital and operated a pain-management clinic. When appropriate, he would pray with his patients before surgery. "Patients would request me for future surgeries and ask me to pray with them," he said. "This, to me, was powerful."
A mystical experience early in his medical career brought him a fresh appreciation of his work as a vocation to serve the poorest and neediest of society, he noted.
"As a naive young anesthesiologist, I would occasionally complain to myself when I would be awakened at two o'clock in the morning to report for surgery on a disheveled, smelly patient who was vomiting all over himself, knowing fully well this person had no insurance," he recalled.
On one such night of interior grumbling, Marta heard a very clear "voice" telling him, "John, this person is 'one of the least of my brothers.'"
That moment of revelation changed him. "From then on, taking care of 'all of these people' became a duty and a privilege for the rest of my professional life," he said.
It changed his patients, too, it seems. "At my retirement, many of my disadvantaged patients came to say goodbye, and we cried together," Marta said. "They said to me: 'You are the only one who was willing to take care of us without expecting payment. Who is going to take care of us now?'
"I assured them that there are many wonderful Christian doctors who are willing to do the same for them," he said. Marta said he witnessed so many miracles during his years of practice that he "took them for granted." What stands out above all, however, are the miracles of birth.
"I don't know how anybody who observes these miracles can ever deny them," he said.
Keeping Catholic health care on-mission and on-message
Annette M. Walker, a Legate of the Orange Canyons (CA) Chapter, is president of strategy at Providence St. Joseph Health, which oversees 50 hospitals and 829 clinics across five states, and chief executive of St. Joseph Health System. She recently answered a few questions for Legatus about her work as a Catholic health care executive.
LEGATUS: How does your Catholic faith infuse your professional work? Conversely, how does your professional work affect your faith?
WALKER: My Catholic faith influences everything in my life, including how I approach my work and how I engage with others. The best way to look at it is that I work for a Catholic ministry that happens to operate in the American health care industry. I am constantly reminded of and challenged to live up to that expectation.
It is not enough to be a good leader or manager; decisions need to be made in the light of a ministry. For example, a layoff for financial stability in most American businesses might be fairly simple. In Catholic health care, questions about justice, disproportionate impact on low-wage vs. high-wage earners, and dignity are paramount concerns that must also be addressed.
LEGATUS: What are some of the challenges of ensuring that health services are provided in accordance with Catholic social teaching? How do government regulation, the insurance industry, and pressures of public opinion impact the delivery of authentically Catholic health care?
WALKER: The Catholic health care tradition is the healing ministry of Jesus. Most days it is easy to see and feel God's presence – especially in the provision of care – but it's always good to ask yourself the question – "What would Jesus do?" If you ask yourself that question, odds are you will do the right thing. My ministry is particularly faithful in its commitment to the poor and vulnerable. Catholic health care is continually challenged by public perception and a focus on what we won't do – for example, abortion.
There isn't enough attention to all that we do and the many ways we help our communities. We care for people no one else cares for, support women and children, provide food, housing and educational opportunities in addition to providing excellent and comprehensive health care that improves the health of the communities we serve. That being said, there is intensive pressure to apply secular beliefs on Catholic institutions, particularly in the areas of respect for life — all life.
LEGATUS: What kind of adjustments have Catholic health care organizations had to make in order to deal with changes in health care laws and regulations?
WALKER: We are operating in the complex world of American health care which is becoming more challenging every day. At times, it would be easier to separate ourselves and try to operate in a silo. We recognize, however, that that fulfilling our mission as Catholics means being in the world and witnessing that God is present and accounted for. So we persist. We stand on the things we must, we find partners with whom we can find some common ground of good, and we advocate for those who cannot advocate for themselves.
This entry was posted in Featured, Features and tagged Catholic health care, gospel of life, healthcare on April 1, 2018 by admin.
Is Catholic health care a thing of the past?
Matthew Rarey: consolidation, regulation, and persecution pose a three-fold challenge . . .
Health care providers are taking a beating from ObamaCare, and Catholic hospitals and physicians fighting to keep the faith are no exception. Many suspect that the end game is not only a singlepayer system, but a shutdown of faith-based delivery.
"Catholics should be worried," warns John M. Haas, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center. "It's not so much a Catholic identity issue within Catholic health care, but fierce and relentless threats from government and a profound shift in cultural attitudes regarding issues such as contraception."
Such threats have already forced the Church out of other social ministries — including adoption services — thanks to laws and mores condoning same-sex "marriage."
Regulatory culture
A statue of the Blessed Mother stands in front of Loretto Hospital in New Ulm, Minn.
John F. Brehany is executive director and ethicist of the Catholic Medical Association, an association of individuals across the country dedicated to learning, implementing, and sharing their faith in the health care industry. Most of its 2,000 members are physicians.
He cites two factors militating against a robust Catholic identity in health care.
"First, the federal government is actively hostile to the Catholic faith and at best indifferent to the protection of conscience rights in organized medicine," Brehany says. Of particular concern is the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate. This employer requirement to provide insurance plans covering contraceptives, abortifacients, and sterilization procedures is "proving a real challenge to the Catholic institutional presence in health care."
The U.S. Supreme Court heard cases seeking the mandate's repeal in late March and is expected to give its ruling at the end of June.
Second, says Brehany, is the financial pressure being exerted upon health care providers to stay in business. To "cut more costs out of the delivery structure, many are consolidating," he notes. Encouraging this trend is the need to comply with ever more burdensome federal regulations — a costly procedure that's putting many physicians out of private practice.
"Government has so ramped up regulations and penalties for compliance with federal law that private physicians are being driven out of business and joining hospitals," Brehany explains. "They can't afford the software systems and lawyers necessary to letting them know whether they're in continual compliance," thus avoiding crippling penalties. When Catholic hospitals consolidate with non-Catholic hospitals for similar reasons, these consolidations can pose "a challenge to maintaining a robust Catholic identity."
Consolidation, not compromise
In 2012, Catholic Healthcare West relinquished its formal Catholic identity in order to expand its network to include non-Catholic hospitals, thus increasing its marketing power and profitability. Now called Dignity Health, it may be a harbinger of further consolidations by which Catholic health care providers drop their Catholic identity for the sake of the bottom line.Despite that change in name and formal identity, "there's more than meets the eye with the Catholic Healthcare West issue," Haas notes. Dignity Health's transformation was made in consultation with the Church and approved by former San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer. It has promised to run its Catholic hospitals in accord with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) document Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services.
"But it now means that the overarching system of Dignity can bring non-Catholic hospitals into the system and have them continue doing things Catholic hospitals can't," says Haas, citing sterilization procedures. "Dignity has said none of its hospitals can perform abortions, however. There's still a strong Catholic moral influence."
Haas says that consolidation is the trend of the future.
"You can find almost no freestanding hospitals anymore — they're all entering into collaborative arrangements to survive," he told Legatus magazine shortly after returning from a meeting in Rome, where he is a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. "When a non-Catholic hospital or system puts pressure on a Catholic partner to do things not in accord with moral law, that's where the threats come in."
The National Catholic Bioethics Center, led by Haas, gives ethical guidance to Catholic health care providers considering collaborative arrangements with non-Catholic entities, helping them stay true to their Catholic identity. A major concern is maintaining the principle of non-material cooperation with evil.
The NCBC worked with one Catholic health care system for over a year to maintain its integrity through the consolidation process, Haas says. The $620 million deal did not happen until the NCBC affirmed that no ethical or religious directives would be broken.
"What came into play were tubal ligations, contraception, and sterilization, which are such a miniscule part of the overall delivery of health care but in our day and age, such a neuralgic issue," says Haas.
For now, vigilant bishops are key to ensuring the Catholic identity of Catholic health care, Haas says. However, a game changer may be in the works: The Obama administration's repeal of conscience provisions, which had allowed health care providers to receive federal funds despite refusing to perform procedures the Church deems unethical, could threaten the very existence of Catholic health care.
"You often hear people saying with great bravado that a Catholic hospital would close down before it did abortions [to receive the government funding so vital to their operation]," he notes. "If it came to that and a Catholic hospital refused to do abortions, the state could take it over and say this institution exists by our leave as a non-profit. It's happened before in Church history, but not yet here in America."
Catholic health care in the catacombs?
Peter Breen, executive director and legal counsel of the Thomas More Society, says the movement in politics to devalue faith-based ministries has turned into active hostility.
Concerning mergers between Catholic and secular health care institutions, Breen says "there's a real fight over whose ethics will win out." In a case not yet made public, the Thomas More Society is defending a Catholic doctor that a secular hospital involved in a partnership with a Catholic hospital refused to hire because of his opposition to administering abortifacient birth control.
Even more ominous, Breen cites a recent suit that the American Civil Liberties Union filed against the USCCB because its Ethical and Religious Directives bars abortion.
"I don't mean to be apocalyptic," says Breen, "but if Catholic bishops are unable to set ethical guidelines for institutions calling themselves Catholic, we're going to have a hard time maintaining an official relation between the Church and not-for-profit Catholic health facilities. If the ACLU is successful, we'll be put in a tough spot as a Church."
Joseph Piccione, senior vice president for mission and ethics at Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare System, says he's hopeful yet realistic about the continuance of that fundamental part of Catholic discipleship and identity: caring for the sick.
"When we see how Catholic ministries have struggled to remain active even in oppressive communist regimes, we know that we have a learned flexibility from their example," says Piccione, who holds a licentiate in theology as well as a civil law degree. "We need to be quick on our feet and find ways to continue to serve. Why? Because that's what the Lord wants of us."
MATTHEW A. RAREY is Legatus magazine's editorial assistant.
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The truth about Catholic health care
Health care was essential to Jesus Christ, it's essential to the Catholic Church . . .
Dr. Patrick Lee
While there are no Catholic restaurants or Catholic grocery stores, there are specifically Catholic hospitals, clinics, hospices and nursing homes. Why? Catholic health stems from how Jesus conducted his public ministry. He not only preached and forgave sins, but he cured, restoring sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and speech to the mute.
Jesus cured lepers, the lame, and even raised the dead. Moreover, Jesus commanded his disciples to "heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers" (Mt 10:8) and promised them divine assistance in this work (Jn 14:12). So, in serving the sick and caring for the dying, Christians are fulfilling an apostolate, not just a job. The Church is the Body of Christ, the extension of Christ in space and time; and so healing physical sickness, injuries, and caring for the dying constitute part of the Church's specific mission.
But, one might ask, why did Jesus himself heal the physically sick and injured? Didn't Christ become man in order to proclaim the kingdom, die for our sins, and form a Church to carry on that work? Jesus healed partly because he simply cared for the physical well-being of the sick and injured who were brought to him. But he also healed physical maladies as part of his larger mission of proclaiming and making present his kingdom. This means that the salvation Jesus offers is not a purely spiritual reality but includes our whole selves, body and soul. The complete victory is reached only in being joined to Christ in the resurrection. Only then is death is fully conquered. But, lest salvation be identified as something purely spiritual — only for part of us, not the whole of us — followers and imitators of Christ have been commissioned to cure the sick and care for the suffering and dying.
A second reason for Catholic health care can be understood by comparing it to Catholic schools, especially Catholic universities. Of course, learning also occurs in non-Catholic universities — physics, chemistry and biology, for example, do not depend on revealed truths. But the whole of learning — an accurate view of the world as such, and of its ultimate purpose — can be grasped only in a broad study crowned by theology and pursued in the context of faith and theology.
Analogously, sickness and suffering can be treated by medicine and secular social work, but they can be treated most effectively only in the larger context provided by our faith. Only in this context can they be treated with realism and an appreciation for their ultimate meaning. Only the Catholic health care institution has the resources to treat the whole person — body, mind and spirit.
Catholic health care is founded on the faith that sheds light on the profound dignity of each and every human person — made in God's image, a person for whom Christ suffered and died — a dignity inherent in that person from the moment of conception until natural death, especially including persons enduring intense suffering, frustrating unconsciousness or advancing dementia.
Our faith reveals that suffering is not meaningless. While suffering should be treated, it finds meaning as joined to Christ's sufferings. And by faith we know that death, while in itself bad, is not the worst enemy; we will be raised from the dead, and we have trust that by God's grace we will meet again in heaven. Sickness, suffering and death are realistically confronted only with the light provided by our faith.
What lessons can we learn from these truths about Catholic health care? First, Catholic health workers must remember that the Christian mandate is not just to cure the sick. Jesus' physical healing was only part of a larger, more encompassing cure, centered on the forgiving and redeeming of sins, the infusion of divine life. And it was precisely his insistence on addressing the whole person — sin, as well as physical sickness — that triggered the most fierce resistance against his mission. Just so, the aim of a Catholic health care institution can never be only to cure the sick, but — just as Jesus did — to care for health within the larger context of bearing witness to the truth of the whole Gospel and handing on Jesus' salvific deeds, especially the Sacraments.
Second, the more encompassing healing is related to physical healing somewhat as faith is related to reason. Just as many Catholic schools are tempted to conform to standards set by the secular world of learning and to dilute their Catholic identity, Catholic health care facilities must resist a similar temptation and strive not to forget their specifically Catholic mission. This is not just a temptation with respect to particular ethical issues. Rather, faith must permeate the whole approach of the Catholic health facility to sickness, suffering, and death. Then, we pray, at the end of the world, Our Lord will say to us, "Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world" (Mt. 25: 34).
Patrick Lee, Ph.D., is the John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Professor of Bioethics and the director of the Institute of Bioethics at Franciscan University of Steubenville.
This entry was posted in Culture of Life and tagged Catholic health care, Patrick Lee on April 1, 2011 by admin.


Many of you living in the Hertfordshire area will be aware by now that Herts Valleys CCG held a public consultation over the Summer period regarding the provision of NHS funding of IVF treatments. You can read my original blog post about the consultation here.
Despite the feedback received in the consultation period, Herts Valleys CCG announced on 12th October that it would be suspending funding of NHS IVF in light of the CCG's financial position. You can read the official decision announcement here. This has been hugely disappointing news to patients and health providers alike. In particular this will be difficult news to those who have just missed out on NHS referral for treatment.
NICE have published guidance advising that three cycles should be offered to eligible women.
Withdrawing support to couples could see an increase in demand on mental health services. This appears to directly contradict the pledges made to provide provide additional support to those affected by mental health.
The high cost of privately-funded IVF treatment in the UK would encourage couples to seek treatment abroad. This is less costly, but also less regulated which could see a rise in multiple pregnancies. This causes increased risk to both women and their babies and additional costs in maternal and neonatal services to the CCG that outweigh the cost of IVF-provision.
I want to thank all of the local acupuncturists and health practitioners that provided their input and signatures in our feedback. I also want to thank the Rt Hon Sir Mike Penning (MP for Hemel Hempstead) and Philip Dunne (MP and minister of state at the department of health) for their support in escalating the feedback.
Although the CCG has announced their decision to withdraw NHS funding of IVF treatments, they will be reviewing this decision in 12 months' time. The financial position and priorities of the NHS may allow a more favourable decision to be made. It remains important that we continue to work with our MP's and the CCG to encourage a decision that is in the interest of the public.
I'll be sure to keep you updated on any announcements made by the CCG's in the meantime.
If you have been affected by these recent decisions by Herts Valleys CCG and are now looking for privately-funded IVF treatments there are a number of steps that you can take to help make the journey a little smoother. Here are three pointers that you may find helpful.
Visit the HFEA website (https://www.hfea.gov.uk/) for free and unbiased information regarding the fertility clinics in your area and their latest statistics, and to find out more about IVF and the different variations that may be relevant to you. Whilst statistics will play a part in figuring out the possible success rate for you, it is also helpful to find out about other aspects of the clinic such as when appointments are likely to take place and whether the clinic is able to carry out egg collection or embryo transfer over the weekends as well as weekdays. Forums like Fertility Friend (http://www.fertilityfriends.co.uk/) and Netmums (https://www.netmums.com/) can also be helpful to read about other people's experiences of undergoing treatment at a particular clinic.
2. Make use of free IVF clinic open evenings.
Many clinics now offer free open evenings or 1-2-1 meetings with a representative of the clinic. These can be useful session for you to find out more about the clinic. Take the opportunity to meet some of the staff and ask further questions about the way the process works.
You may still be eligible to undergo a number of blood tests and investigations with the NHS to evaluate your fertility potential and to see if there are any conditions that may be the reason why you're finding it difficult to fall pregnant. These tests will be the same pre-treatment investigations that your private clinic will carry out and can save you up to £1000 in initial costs prior to IVF or ICSI itself. HFEA requires clinics to ensure that your pre-investigation test results are within three months of your first egg collection procedure. Doing your research in advance will mean that you can book in your private consultation soon after your tests results are out and will allow you to save some money upfront.


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Coach Eric Tinkler was delighted with Orlando Pirates' 3-1 victory over Jomo Cosmos in the Nedbank Cup on Sunday.
Pirates were in control of proceedings throughout the clash and eased to victory in the end, and Tinkler believes it could have been an even bigger drubbing.
The previous encounter between the sides saw the Buccaneers thrash Ezenkosi 5-0.
Tinkler said: "It was a fantastic performance in the first half. We started exceptionally well. We wanted to put them under immediate pressure, because I think they were still feeling the effects of the previous game.
"I thought that if we start well, that would demoralise them, and we did. We created an early goal. We should have been 2-0 up after five minutes. With the chances we created in the first half, we could have at least been 5-0 up at the break.
"The way we conceded the goal was a bit sloppy. We gave him way too much time and space to turn and strike at goal, which was the disappointing part.
"We managed to get the third early in the second half, which was extremely important.
"Overall I'm very pleased with the result and that we are moving on to the next round."
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In this Jan. 27, 1986 file photo, choreographer Arthur Mitchell, founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem poses in his office at the City Center building in New York. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Arthur Mitchell, who broke barriers for African-Americans in the 1950s as a ballet dancer with the New York City Ballet and who would go on to become a driving force in the creation of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, has died. He was 84.
Mitchell died Wednesday at a New York City hospital according to his niece, Juli Mills-Ross. She said the death came after renal failure led to heart failure.
Born in Harlem, Mitchell started dancing with the New York City Ballet in 1955 under famed choreographer George Balanchine.
In this Nov. 26, 1991 file photo, Arthur Mitchell, founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem, is shown in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
Balanchine put him in several leading roles, including one pairing him with a White female dancer in "Agon" in 1957.
In a January interview with The New York Times, Mitchell recalled the daring of that choice.
"Can you imagine the audacity to take an African-American and Diana Adams, the essence and purity of Caucasian dance, and to put them together on the stage?" he said.
In 1968, impacted by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Mitchell started a dance school that grew the next year to include the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
Anna Glass, the executive director of the Dance Theater, told The Associated Press that Mitchell "truly was a visionary."
"He believed in a world where all people could have access to this beautiful art form," she said. "He really sought to ensure that all people saw themselves in" ballet.
In this Dec. 5, 2015 file photo, 2015 Kennedy Center Honoree actress Cicely Tyson, left, and former Kennedy Center Honoree Arthur Mitchell appear at the Kennedy Center Honors at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)
Among those recognizing his impact following his death was Misty Copeland, the first African-American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.
In a post on Instagram, she wrote, "You gave me so much, through our conversations, your dancing and by simply existing as a brown body in ballet. But you were so much more than a brown body. You're an icon and hero."
Choreographer and television producer Debbie Allen tweeted, "The world has lost another visionary" with Mitchell's death.
"Arthur Mitchell claimed ballet as an American art form," she said. "His legacy lives through all of us."
Mitchell was born in 1934, and grew up with four siblings. He started formal dance training in high school, and upon graduating, took the offer of a ballet scholarship with the School of American Ballet, founded by Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein.
His dancing years also included choreographing his own works, performing on Broadway, and working with dance companies in other countries. The Dance Theatre of Harlem performed internationally and has been artistically acclaimed even as it went through some periods of financial upheaval. He stepped down as director almost a decade ago.
In this Oct. 21, 2004 file photo, Arthur Mitchell, co-founder of the Dance Theatre of Harlem appears in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
Glass said Mitchell had most recently spent time at the company last month, during a two-week residency in which he restaged one of his older ballets to be performed next April as the company marks its 50th anniversary.
"This was a moment that all of us were looking forward to," Glass said. "I know we will miss him tremendously."
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Two Good Days When Crimes Against Nature Were Exposed
By Nnimmo Bassey
For two days in the Maison des Metallos, Paris, experts, victims, prosecutors and judges presented or listened to cases of crimes against Mother Earth and at the end judgements were passed. There were solemn spiritual moments, moments of awe at the rapacious destructive capacities of humanity and many moments of tears as these destructions, including murders, were painted in words and pictures.
The International Rights of Nature Tribunal held parallel to the UNFCCC's Conference of Parties where historical and current climate atrocities or real solutions are loath to be mentioned, not even in square brackets.
The Tribunal derives its authority from the peoples of the world as the children of the Earth. The basic framework comes from the Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth (UDRME) that was adopted at the Peoples' Summit on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in April 2010 after the spectacular failure of COP15 in Copenhagen. At the commencement of the sitting of the Tribunal on 4 December 2015, the presiding judge, Cormac Cullinan, led other judges to vote and formally adopt the Convention and Statutes of the tribunal. These guide the running of the Tribunal and underscore the solemn duty of sitting as judges on the cases of infringements against Mothrer Earth.
This was the third session of the Tribunal, having sat first in Quito, Ecuador in January 2014 and then in Lima, Peru in December of the same year. The Tribunal was hosted by the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature in conjunction with NatureRights, End Ecocide on Earth and Attac France with Natalia Greene heading the secretariat.
As I sat on the panel of judges along with Tom Goldtooth (USA), Alberto Acosta (Ecuador), Osprey Orielle (USA), Terisa Turna (Canada), Felicio Pontes (Brazil), Damien Short (UK), Attosa Soltani (USA), Ruth Nyambura (Kenya), Christophe Bonneuil (France), Philippe Desbrosses (France) and Dominique Bourg (Switzerland) we were repeatedly reminded that all beings on Earth are our relatives and that what we do to anyone of the children of the Earth we do to ourselves. The preamble of the UDRME states that "We are all part of Mother Earth, an indivisible, living community of interrelated and interdependent beings with a common destiny."
It also came through that the crimes against Mother Earth are often wilfully committed because some people and the transnational corporations see nature as capital and Mother Earth as a dead organism. In a proposed case against cruel treatment of animals we saw shocking video of a wounded bull being butchered alive with hundreds of people gleefully watching.
The prosecutors, Ramiro Avila and Linda Sheehan led the witnesses in bringing out deep systemic alternatives to environmental protection and seeking to show that it must be acknowledged that ecosystems have the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate their vital cycles and that these ought to have legal standing in a court of law. The line-up of witnesses helped to ensure that Indigenous Peoples and oppressed communities had the space to share their unique concerns, knowledge and solutions about land, water, air and culture with the global community.
The presentations by experts and victims showed that climate change violates Articles 2 Sub sections a-j of the Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth, especially the right to life and to exist; the right to be respected and "the right to regenerate its bio-capacity and to continue its vital cycles and processes free from human disruptions."
Witnesses underscored the fact that although climate change is caused mostly by human activities, it is inaccurate to place that blame and the burden for action on all humans. In his presentation, Pablo Solon stressed that 10% of the richest individuals in the world contribute 49 per cent of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and 90 companies contribute over 60 per cent of all GHG emissions. The top corporate polluters include Chevron, ExxonMobil (USA), Saudi Aramco (Saudi), BP (UK), Gazprom (Russia) and Royal Dutch Shell (Netherlands).
Evidence were adduced to show that the trio of governments/politicians, transnational corporations and the UNFCCC are complicit in the climate crimes as they work together to ensure that real solutions are avoided, binding commitments to cut emission are set aside in preference for voluntary or intended actions. In addition, the tribunal rejected the claims that destructive actions were taken on the basis of the necessity of development or that when emissions began to happen, and grew, the polluters did not know or anticipate the outcomes, are unacceptable.
The case was established that at play is the logic of capital and power and that the major corporations who have caused the problems are the sponsors of the COPs and have hijacked the system.
The fact that the extreme forms of extraction promoted by humans are crimes against Mother Earth came through very forcefully when the case of hydraulic fracturing or fracking was taken. Fracking was presented as a RAPE of the Earth and is one of the worst threats against the planet. Facts adduced in this case include that it sets stage for disaster each frack uses up to 2-8 million gallons of fresh water and that one well may be fracked up to 18 times. The process involves the use of up to 750 chemicals many of which, including benzene and formaldehyde are toxic. Billions of gallons of "frack fluid" and 60 per cent of chemicals used remain or are stored underground while the remainder are stored in open air pits. The Tribunal received evidence of radioactive wastes, toxic waters being left everywhere fracking takes place: in farms, schools, neighbourhoods as well as offshore. Witnesses and experts also insisted that fracking is guaranteed to pollute ground water. Testimonies of health impacts, deaths, rapes and other social disruptions dropped a pall of grieve over the venue of the meeting.
In the case against the Belo Monte and Tapajas mega dams in Brazil, the Tribunal was informed that 60-70 dams were being planned to be built over the next 20 years. Belo Monte alone will destroy 5000km2 of the forest and related biodiversity. The social impacts were described as ecological and cultural genocide against the indigenous communities.
Speaking forcefully about his lifelong work defending the Amazon forest, Cacique Raoni Kayapo told the Tribunal, "We all need nature to survive and it is fundamental that we protect her. Governments should hear the indigenous people who are in the frontlines of defending nature." Looking piercingly at the panel of judges and then at the audience he intoned, "My struggle is for you, for all of us and for the future of humanity and for the future of our children."
Other highlights of the sessions include the presentations that demanded that fossil fuels should be left under the ground in line with the findings of science requiring that this be done if we are to avoid catastrophic temperature rise. Oilwatch International presented the case for the creation of Annex Zero (0) nations, sub-nations and territories that have already taken steps or are in the process of doing so, of keeping fossil fuels under the ground. This was presented as real climate action and points at the pathway to a safe world. Examples were given of sites of such initiatives in all the continents of the world. Another highlight was the case for the recognition of ecocide in international criminal law.
The Tribunal accepted new cases including those that will try crimes against animals, the depletion of marine life, the Rosia Montana Mines in Romania, the extreme damage of the environment of the Niger Delta by the polluting acts of Shell and the crimes tied to the extraction of tar sands in Canada.
These were two days of plain talks and truth. They were days in which the raw injuries inflicted on Mother Earth and her children were laid bare. They were days of pain as well as of joy. Tears flowed freely from all sections of the hall. Indignation did not give birth to paralysis but to a resolve to stand up for Mother Earth.
In spite of the pains, the aches and the cries of Mother Earth that her children displayed, the words of Cases Camp Horinek kept echoing that the days of the Tribunal were indeed good days.
Nnimmo Bassey is director of an ecological think-tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and Coordinator of Oilwatch International. Bassey has authored books on the environment, architecture and poetry. He was chair of Friends of the Earth International (2008-2012) and Executive Director of Nigeria's Environmental Rights Action (1993-2013). He was a co-recipient of the 2010 Right Livelihood Award also known as the "Alternative Noble Prize." In 2012 he received the Rafto Human Rights Award. In 2014 he received Nigeria's national honour as Member of the Federal Republic (MFR) in recognition of his environmental activism. His book, To Cook a Continent – Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa (Pambazuka Press, 2012) has been translated in Portuguese and Finnish (2014).
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Flame Retardants: What's In Your Mattress?
Julia Vanella is a staff writer for Brief Policy Perspectives and a first-year MPP student.
History of Chemical Flame Retardants in the United States
As part of the post-World War II development of the chemical industry, the production of flame retardants began in the 1960s. From 1969 through 1973, children's sleepwear accounted for 32% of single-source flame injuries. Due to the number of reported accidents of children's clothes catching fire, leading children to suffer and sometimes perish from burns, the US government began requiring children's fire resistant pajamas with the fire retardant, brominated tris. Producers of children's garments used this chemical to slow the burn of polyester clothing and protect the children wearing it.
From 1982 to 1986, house fires roughly accounted for 11% of adult casualties and 32% of child fatalities. In 1993, about 14,700 match and 5,600 lighter fires accounted for 29% and 49% of child injuries from children playing with fire. Concerned that government regulators would issue further restrictions for cigarettes, the tobacco industry deviated the blame from smoking onto furniture – the objects that caught fire. The tobacco industry lobbied and pushed for increased flammability measures and donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to fire departments throughout the US.
What's So Bad About Flame Retardants?
Chemical flame retardants have been found to cause cancer and other adverse health effects. Scientists Arlene Blum and Bruce Ames discovered brominated tris as a likely carcinogen, which humans can absorb through their skin. The chemical was also suggested to cause reproductive issues, affect IQ levels in children, and impact thyroid hormones in adults. The chemical flame retardant was also detected in breast milk, leading researchers to question the potential toxicity to nursing infants.
Due to the results found by Blum and Ames, a new agency created in the 1970s, the Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission, quickly banned the use of the chemical in children's sleepwear. In 1977, brominated tris was outlawed from manufacturing children's pajamas. The courts, however, overturned the ban, but clothing companies still complied by no longer producing children's clothes with the chemical. Another chemical flame-retardant, chlorinated tris, was then produced and manufactured, which the government has never banned. Due to this shift in production, chlorinated tris entered the homes of many Americans for generations through the upholstery of furniture.
Since the 1970s, flame retardants have been used in textiles, foam in furniture, baby products, building insulation, carpets, drapes, TV sets, and a plethora of other items. Chemical flame retardants, or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), do not chemically bond to the items to which they were added, like furniture and electronics, so the particles easily release into the air as dust. This includes the adult and crib mattresses on which we sleep. While the poisonous particles are not visible to us, they can be released in the air, water, and soil during production. They can also escape from products and land in the food we consume. A report from 2006 from the Consumer Product Safety Commission suggests that children's exposure to the chemical compound, tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl)phosphate) (TDCIPP), was five times the level regarded as safe and that children's levels surpassed the "acceptable cancer risk." This amount is known as the acceptable daily intake (ADI) which measures the quantity of a certain element that people can ingest or absorb daily throughout their lifetime without "appreciable health risks." If one's ingestion or exposure exceeds the acceptable amount, it could lead to severe adverse health effects. Chlorinated flame retardants are especially harmful when they are released from mattresses since people spend many hours sleeping on these surfaces, particularly babies and young children.
Natural Flame Retardants
Safe alternatives to mattresses without chemical flame retardants exist. These materials include organic wool and cotton, plant-based memory foam, and natural latex. Unfortunately, it may be difficult and frustrating to detect and discover what materials are used in the production of mattresses and what kind of toxic gasses and chemicals are released in response. In an effort to address this issue, some websites and resources promote the use and purchase of mattresses made of organic and natural materials, such as "The Good Trade."
Recent Legislative Reform and the Future
In 2006, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) implemented the polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDEs) Significant New Use Rules (SNUR). This regulation created the termination of two PBDE flame-retardant chemicals, PentaBDE and OctaBDE, and guaranteed that no new production or importation of these chemicals could take place after January 1, 2005, without an evaluation from the EPA. SNUR allows for the EPA to assess any concerns and regulate future production, importation, and uses related to these chemicals. Although the production of PentaBDE was discontinued in 2004, products that contain the flame retardant may still be imported to the United States.
As of January 2020, California's Proposition 65 banned the sale and production of new furniture, foam in mattresses, and specific products for children that consist of more than 0.1% of certain chemicals used in flame retardants, including chlorinated tris. Proposition 65 requires producers to provide warnings to Californians regarding significant exposure to chemicals that may cause cancer, congenital disabilities, and reproductive issues.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSD) has not yet banned these chemicals. The Commission voted to authorize the influence of rulemaking to ban the use of organohalogen flame retardants (OFRs), including chlorinated and brominated chemicals in children's products, upholstered furniture in homes, mattresses and mattress pads, and plastic casings around electronics. The Commission's vote could result in outlawing certain products that contain chlorinated flame retardants.
Even state-level regulations do not guarantee a reduction of the public's exposure to fire retardant chemicals. Prohibiting certain fire retardants will likely lead chemical companies to produce and market replacement chemicals that might be just as harmful or worse than those they aim to replace. Massachusetts recently declared the ban of more than ten brominated, chlorinated, or organophosphate-based mixtures used in flame retardants present in children's products, bedding, carpeting, residential upholstered furniture, and windows. The ban even includes fire retardants developed as substitutes for PentaBDE and OctaBDE. While this new state regulation will protect those living in Massachusetts, many other states continue to allow flame retardants to enter the home of their residents.
While many states have regulated the use of flame retardants in products like furniture, carpeting, children's toys, and mattresses, no chemicals have been federally prohibited. Since no current federal bills, regulations, or laws are being considered that will ban flame retardants, there is still much work to be done to combat these harmful chemicals. Hopefully, by raising awareness and bringing forth the dangers of flame retardants to the public, states and the federal government will take more action to protect the public's health.
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In what has become an all-too-familiar cycle, another fascist-sympathizing group has made Seattle a target of its hateful and bigoted message. Patriot Prayer—a far-right religious group based in Portland, Oregon—are attacking women at Planned Parenthood locations in Washington. They were invited to speak at UW by the College Republicans, who also invited alt-right spokesman Milo Yiannopoulos to campus on J20 and who actively campaign with the Cascade Legion, a neo-Nazi group.
The rally, held on February 10, attracted other fascists to campus, including the Proud Boys and genuine neo-Nazis. Patriot Prayer was met by counter-protesters belonging to numerous student and community groups committed to anti-fascism, including the Seattle Wobblies and Seattle General Defense Committee. All told, the Patriot Prayer rally was easily outnumbered 4-to-1.
However, the rally was not without controversy. Before the event, UW President Ana Mari Cauce warned students to stay away from campus because organizations "outside our university" had presented credible threats of violence while ignoring that the College Republicans have, on numerous occasions, invited violent groups to campus and incited counter-protest.
Of course, Cauce was not referring to Patriot Prayer, but instead to counter-protesters: community members who believe that fascists have no right to invade the public space to call for violence against vulnerable communities. Cauce declined to cancel the event, even with the knowledge that the speakers advocate ethnic cleansing, murder of LGBTQ people, and deportation of immigrant students.
UW's diversity webpage declares that it "strive[s] to create welcoming and respectful learning environments, and promote[s] access, opportunity and justice for all." If Cauce and UW were truly committed to fulfilling these idealistic goals—and if UW cared about its multinational, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic student body—then they would not have allowed Patriot Prayer and its fascist allies to hold a rally in the middle of the university.
It seems that President Cauce would rather provide a safe space for fascists to preach than protect the rights of multicultural students on campus. "Young, Gifted, & Black" cancelled an event for black high school students to visit campus. It is truly damning that a college recruitment group for students of color would have to cancel their event due to safety concerns resulting from the presence of violent fascists on campus.
Additionally, this weekend was supposed to be the opening of "A Book With No Pages" at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, an exhibition and residency awarded to C. Davida Ingram who creates conceptual art around subjects of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and social relationships, but this event was also cancelled because of safety concerns.
Counter-protesters from student and community groups marched into Red Square just before the Patriot Prayer rally began. The counter-protesters were met by UW Police and Seattle Police Department officers in riot gear. The police had erected two barricades to keep the rally and counter-protesters apart. The police were working in conjunction with Patriot Prayer to ensure that the speakers remained unharassed.
After an hour, the police allowed several fascists to cross the barricades and enter the counter-protest. They were met with silly string and glitter bombs. In three separate instances, when the fascists began shoving protesters, the police intervened, pepper sprayed the crowd, and arrested people in the vicinity. They used their bikes to shove protesters back and prevent the medics in attendance from giving aid to those affected.
Local newspapers have reported that counter-demonstrators instigated the violence, but anyone who was actually in attendance knows that the violence was instigated by the police in two ways—first by allowing fascists to cross the barricades, and second by intervening only against counter-protesters.
Fights broke out because fascists began shoving their way into the crowd, which they could only do because they were granted police protection. Outnumbered as they were, they could threaten the counter-protesters knowing that the police would step in and protect them after they started a fight.
The two sides continued to hurl insults across the barricades. The alt-right and fascists recited the same tired excuses about how they were only there to promote "free speech," a disingenuous justification that betrays the moral bankruptcy of their ideology: "Our speech is not technically illegal" is their rallying cry and only defense. More than an hour before their rally was scheduled to finish, they departed. After a constant barrage of noise, cheers, chants, and songs, they left. The police escorted them away from campus.
It is for these reasons that we must continue to confront them. As their rhetoric grows more violent and more extreme, and these groups become more desperate for power, they will lash out at those who are vulnerable, as indicated by the spike in hate crimes since Trump's election.
The Proud Boys were delayed during their exit. When they returned to their trucks, they discovered that their tires had been slashed. Other fascists were seen receiving medical aid from the fire department just off campus. In an act of petty revenge, they assaulted the first young people wearing black clothes they could find.
Because the university and the police refuse to protect students of color and vulnerable communities from racist attacks, it falls to students and the community to protect themselves. The Wobblies are proud to be a part of these acts of self-defense. As long as fascists continue to attack people of color, LGBTQ people, immigrants, and all other working peoples, we will continue to move against them. It is our duty as Fellow Workers to put ourselves on the line for these communities.


» 2nd Regional Conference in September 2016!
2nd Regional Conference in September 2016!
The FisherMan project is working on the organisation of the 2nd Regional Conference Sustainable Fisheries in the South-Western Indian Ocean: the importance of the Education, Management and Governance that will take place in Quelimane (Mozambique) the 8th and 9th of September this year.
With a two days duration, the Regional Conference will bring together Regional and International Marine Resources professionals, fisheries authorities, academics, policy makers, activists, politicians and others involved and interested in Fishery sector in the region.


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Finances are something many unhappily married couples consider before making the drastic step to end their marriage. Sometimes completely miserable couples stay together solely because it would not be a safe or smart move financially to end the marriage.
In Florida, many couples who have been hit hard by the unemployment and foreclosure crisis are choosing to stay in unhappy marriages out of fear they will not have the financial security they need for independent life. Furthermore, because Florida is an equitable distribution state, martial property, including marital debt, will be divided between the spouses. If one or both people in the marriage has accumulated debt, they may hesitate to file for divorce out of concern over how that debt will be dealt with. Another reason a couple may choose not to divorce during a recession is because they would not be able to afford alimony or child support payments.
No one should be forced to stay in an unhappy, loveless marriage for any reason. If you would like to file for divorce but are concerned about how the divorce will affect you financially, you should know there other options available to you. You could separate from your spouse (but not actually file for divorce), you could attend some type of financial counseling, you could file for bankruptcy, or if you are upside down on your mortgage and you'd rather just get out of your house so you can freely move on with your life you could do a short sale of your home. The point is, you do have options available to you so you are not trapped in a marriage you don't want to be in. At Hutchinson Law, an experienced Jacksonville divorce attorney would be happy to discuss all of your options and help you determine the best solution for your particular situation.


Dolores Cannon's career as a hypnotherapist specializing in past life regression and recording "Lost" knowledge spans 50 years and has taken her on an incredible journey along countless fascinating destinations. She has been involved with hypnosis for 40 years and exclusively with past-life therapy and regression work for thirty years. As the range of topics her work covers and sheer volume of original material she had produced places her in a category of her own, this section has been provided to give you insight into each stage of her career and how it has progressed over the years. Read about her early days in hypnotherapy when she first discovered reincarnation, learn how she developed and refined her own unique method of hypnosis known as Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT), and discover all the captivating areas of research she had explored on her path.
Over this time she developed her own unique technique which enabled her to gain the most efficient release of information from her clients, and to facilitate instantaneous healing. She has also been a UFO investigator for 20 years, investigating the crop circles in England, and accumulating evidence from suspected abductees through hypnosis.


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12 Soldiers From One South Chicago Parish Died In Vietnam. A New Film Tells Their Stories — And How Neighbors Honored Them
Twelve soldiers from Our Lady of Guadalupe, the city's first Mexican American Catholic church, died during the war — a death toll believed to be higher than any other parish in the U.S. The film premieres April 29 on WTTW.
South Chicago, East Side
Maxwell Evans
WTTW's 'Firsthand: Segregation' Offers A First-Person Perspective On Segregation's Financial And Mental Costs
The documentary series, premiering Tuesday, puts "a human face" on the racial divisions impacting people across the city, its producer said.
Jamie Nesbitt Golden
Ida B. Wells Monument To Be Dedicated In Bronzeville Wednesday
"Light of Truth" will be the first monument in the city to honor a Black woman.
TV Show 'Chicago Stories' Takes Closer Look At Ida B. Wells-Barnett's Bronzeville Connections
"We were able to tell so much of the story about the history of Bronzeville by telling the story of Ida B. Wells," writer and producer Stacy Robinson said.
Gun Violence Docuseries Aims For A Humanizing Look At Victims, Survivors, Perpetrators
The series follows five people affected by gun violence to explore the root causes of violence and how one incident can ripple through a community for years.
Pascal Sabino


Sierra Sentinel News- Serving The Sierra Nevada Communities: Most dangerous racist in Ebbetts Pass???
Most dangerous racist in Ebbetts Pass???
Who do you think the most dangerous racist is in the Ebbetts Pass area? The right-wing klans are so violently vicious.
campaigns for Oliveira? Or could it be a filthy smelly dirty fat cop? Or maybe it may be a PTSD drunken postal who lies, even about where he lives???
You tell us who you think or suggest may be the worst and most dangerous!
The most dangerous is a crazy woman who lives in Camp Connell who tries to ruin other people's lives because she is so miserable. Just because she trapped her boyfriend into marrying her she thinks she is some model citizen and respectable business woman. Well, those of us who were harassed by her haven't forgotten. Her day will come.
lol, lol, lol, lol, can i guess?
Whoa!!!!!! Camp Connell, huh? Got to think about that.
What is wrong? You only print comments that you like snowflake?
Wow I'm glad I didn't marry a certain woman in San Andreas. Sounds like the same one LOL!
I'm sure you know who. She has been a problem for many years. She met her match a little while ago and has backed off. Guess she couldn't handle what she was dishing out.
YES on Prop 12---FOR THE ANIMALS!!!


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Kosów – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie mazowieckim, w powiecie radomskim, w gminie Kowala.

Pierwsza wzmianka o wsi Cossow pochodzi z 1395 r. Nazwa wsi Kosów pochodzi albo od słowa "kosa" czyli narzędzia służącego do koszenia zboża albo od nazwy ptaka "kos". W 1413 r. Małgorzata żona Piotra z Tułkowic odstąpiła część Kosowa swoim braciom. Następne wzmianki o tej miejscowości pochodzą z 1415 r. Cossow i 1450 r. Koszow. Wspomniany wyżej Piotr z Tułkowic zwany też Pietraszem był pierwszym znanym właścicielem Kosowa. Od niego bierze swój początek ród Kosowskich herbu Abdank. Kolejnym właścicielem wsi był Andrzej z Kosowa odnotowany w 1417 r. W połowie XV w. właścicielem wsi był Jan Kosowa, który wyjednał u króla Kazimierza Jagiellończyka przywilej lokacji wsi na prawie magdeburskim. Wieś zyskała samorząd wiejski i nowe warunki gospodarczego rozwoju. W drugiej połowie XV dziedzicem był Andrzej Kosowski. W XV w. Kossowcy założyli nowe wsie: Rożki i Kosów Mniejszy. Według spisu z 1508 r. właścicielem Kosowa Małego był Jakub z Kosowa. Właścicielem połowy wsi był Piotr Kossowski, jego część liczyła 1 łan ziemi. Drugą część wsi posiadał Piotr Skarbek. W XVIII w. obydwie części wsi przyjęło się nazywać Kosów Większy i Kosów Mniejszy.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa radomskiego.

15 marca 1984 część wsi (10,37 ha) włączono do Radomia.

Do miejscowości można się dostać autobusami linii 5 organizowanej przez MZDiK Radom, liniami PKS Radom do Wierzbicy i do Bukowca oraz mikrobusami zmierzającymi do Szydłowca i Skarżyska Kamiennej.

Wierni Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego należą do parafii Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Kończycach lub do parafii  św. Wojciecha w Kowali.

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Kosów (powiat radomski)

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Salute to Sidney and Arline Sachs
Sidney & Arline Sachs, We Salute You!
December, 2007 - For ten years Sidney and Arline Sachs have produced a public access television series, Tracing Your Family Roots, which deals with Jewish genealogy. The series' shows have increased the knowledge of available resources, demonstrated creative techniques, and increased the number of individuals who participate in Jewish genealogy. Sidney has produced the series, while Arline and Dr. Sallyann Sack have performed as co-hosts of the show. Until recently, the shows were broadcast in the District of Columbia/ Maryland/Virginia area but, as of a year ago, the shows have been digitized and placed on the Internet at http://tracingroots.nova.org. This website provides direct access to thirty shows and also provides a list of all shows that have aired and links to all references mentioned in the shows.
The show was started to share information with others interested in doing genealogical research. Since its beginning, the show has invited over 100 experts on various subjects, including how to gather information from over twenty-four different countries. Still an on-going concern, Tracing Your Family Roots has big plans for the future. Upcoming episodes will include the acquisitions director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum who will discuss how it will make the data of the International Tracing Services, Ade Sloan, who will explain the United States Citizen and Immigration Service's (USCIS's) new fee-for-service genealogy program, and an expert on Ukrainian archives.
With their Tracing Your Family Roots show, Sidney and Arline have helped spread the word about Jewish genealogy through their dedicated and tireless efforts and creative programming.
Ron Arons, Chair, IAJGS Salutes
with Gary Mokotoff and Elsebeth Paikin
IAJGS 2023 Call for Proposals
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals for the 2023 IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy is now open! In 2023, the in-person conference will take place in London, England, from 30 July until 3 August 2023. The deadline for submissions is 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time on 15 January 2023. To …
Conference Registration Is Open
Registration for the IAJGS 2022 All Virtual Conference is now open. Please visit the conference website at www.iajgs2022.org for details.
Letter of Support to Ukraine Archivist
The IAJGS Board has sent a letter of support to the Head of the State Archival Service of Ukraine, with copies to other world leaders as noted at the bottom of the letter. The letter can be viewed HERE (after you click "read more").
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