Focus on sponsorship

Health Progress, Jul/Aug 2001 by Van Schaik, Terry

The section's goal Is not to remove all challenges or foretell the complete future of sponsorship, but rather to share current thinking on sponsorship Issues and help expand the conversation about them.

Health Progress is please to offer its readers a special section, "Sponsorship: Current Challenges and Future Directions;" that is devoted to one of the Catholic health ministry's key issues. The section-which we thank Mary Katherine Grant, PhD, and Sr. Matt Mary Kupish, ASC, Dmin, for coediting-- describes the 30-year evolution's of sponsorship as both concept and practice. The section's goal is not to remove all challenges as both concept and pratice. the secbut rather to share current thinking on sponsorship issues and help expand the conversation about them.

This may be an apt place to note that CHA also offers an electronic resource for those who wish to join the conversation about sponsorship: the Sponsor Services section on the association's website, which can be found at chanisa.org/sponsor/sponsor/.asp. The CHA Sponsor Database lists contact information, sponsors, system affiliation, and other information about CHA members. The section also offers information on systems and their organizational structures, as well as on single-facility members. (To register for access to the members-only section of cbausa.org, go to www.chausa.org/register.asp and complete the registration. Contact Martha Slover [314-253-3462] for assistance.)

We hope that the articles in "Sponsorship: Current Challenges and Future Directions" and the sponsorship information available on the website will prove to be useful resources as the Catholic health ministry continues to create a vision of sponsorship to serve the decades ahead.

Terry Van Schaik

EDITOR