Healthcare Institutions
Hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare centers are at the center of human health, ecological health, sustainability, business, and community. Learn how Catholic faith and health leaders are promoting Laudato Si’.
Healthcare associations are working together. Go to the Catholic Health Association of the United States to find resources and action ideas for the healthcare sector.
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God’s Plan(et) brings together a broad range of Catholic members from all over the world. These members walk together in synodality and communion with the universal Church on a journey of ecological conversion. Here are a few ways you can get involved.
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Healthcare
Health systems commit to sustainability efforts for the long term
Representatives of two of the country’s largest Catholic health systems that have pledged to reduce their environmental impacts say tying the efforts to their systems’ mission, making a long-term commitment, having the support of leadership and collecting data to verify that the efforts are on track are key aspects of the work.
Healthcare
Former Hollywood actor now fights polluters on Texas’ Gulf Coast
When Hollywood actor and stuntman Hilton Kelley visited his hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, in 2000 after 20 years away, he was taken aback by how much the Gulf Coast community had deteriorated since his youth.
Healthcare
As climate threat worsens, CHA, members amp up environmental efforts
As scientists point to wildfires and severe drought across much of the American West, flooding in the Midwest, hurricanes in the South and other extreme weather as evidence of global warming’s impact, CHA, its members and other Catholic organizations are ramping up their efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
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