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Caritas Christi was an integrated healthcare network providing community based medicine and tertiary care in eastern Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and Rhode Island. [4] Caritas Christi Health Care had 12,000 employees, 1,552 hospital beds, 2,305 doctors, 1,880 nurses, 73,546 annual inpatient discharges, 238,551 annual emergency ...
Caritas Georgia began its activities in 1993 with initiatives led by volunteers. It was officially established in November 1994 as a charitable organisation of the Catholic Church in Georgia. Its primary mission was to support individuals struggling to rebuild their lives following the political and social upheaval caused by the collapse of the ...
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Ralph de la Torre is a Cuban American former health care executive and cardiac surgeon.The CEO of Steward Health Care from 2010 to 2024, and previously CEO of its predecessor Caritas Christi Health Care starting in 2008, de la Torre also founded and served as the first head of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's CardioVascular Institute from 2007 to 2008.
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton, MA, which served as Steward's flagship hospital until it was sold in 2024 [19]. Steward Health Care was founded in 2010, when Caritas Christi Health Care was sold to New York private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, with Caritas CEO and former Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center heart surgeon Ralph de la Torre continuing as CEO of the new ...
Caritas Jerusalem was founded in 1967 after the Six-Day War to coordinate Catholic relief efforts. [3] [4]In 2022, Caritas Jerusalem's activities included the renovation of houses, distribution of food kits, integration activities for persons with disabilities, labour market integration activities for women and youth, healthcare and health promotion activities, as well as other support to ...
Caritas Malta is also involved in educational initiatives, particularly in schools, where it runs awareness programmes aimed at helping children and youth make healthy and constructive life choices. These programmes are designed to prevent the onset of destructive behaviours such as drug, alcohol, or technological addiction.
In the 1980s, as Medicaid managed care expanded across the county, safety net providers, such as Community Health Centers (CHCs) and public hospitals, feared that managed care would reduce reimbursements for Medicaid-eligible services, making it more difficult for them to provide care to the un- and under-insured, and result in a loss of Medicaid volume, as beneficiaries would choose to see ...