Health Care and Housing

Health Progress, Mar/Apr 2005

AS HEALTH PROGRESS READERS are aware, more and more Catholic health care organizations are becoming sponsors of housing developments-housing for the elderly, the chronically ill, people with HIV/AIDS, psychiatric patients, and others. Why? Is there an intrinsic connection between health and housing? What is it?

This issue's special section, "Catholic Health Care and Housing," which begins on p. 12, attempts to answer those questions. Our guest editor is Julie Minda, a CHA communications specialist and the lead editor of Catholic Health World.

OUR NEW LOOK

There's surely no need to announce that Health Progress has a new look. It's in your hands-a lighter, brighter, more colorful journal, the work of our multitalented graphic designer, Les Stock. Readers will also note that the journal's articles now run consecutively, without jumping. What do you think of the changes? To let us know, write to the editor at mheaton@ chausa.org or the lead editor at gburnside@chausa.org.

HONORS

Fr. Peter A. Clark, SJ, PhD, is the recipient of American College of Healthcare Executives's 2005 Dean Conley Article of the Year Award for his essay, "Prejudice and the Medical Profession," which appeared in the September-October 2003 Health Progress (pp. 12-23). We express our congratulations to Fr. Clark on p. 9 of this issue.

Another contributor, Thomas H. Hooyman, PhD, was recently appointed to the Ethics Workgroup of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control. Dr. Hooyman was the coauthor, with his wife, Nancy W. Hooyman, MD, of "The 'Sentinel Events' Study," which appeared in the November-December 2004 Health Progress (pp. 33-36). We congratulate Dr. Tom.