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Performance Citation Award
- Contributions of 3 Catholic health care providers recognized for their historic significance (12/07/2006)
- CHAC opposes call for ban on religious hospitals (12/05/2002)
- Catholic Health Evolving (12/23/1996)
- New Booklet Reveals Compelling Evidence of Impact of Spirituality on Health (06/06/1996)
- CHAC Offers a Valuable Program in Pastoral Health Care (12/08/1995)
- Catholic Health Care Featured on Vision-TV (03/06/1995)
- New Board Appointed for the Catholic Health Association of Canada (05/24/2005)
- New Board Appointed for the Catholic Health Association
of Canada (06/24/2004) - New Board Appointed for the Catholic Health Association of Canada (05/07/2002)
- New Board Appointed for the Catholic Health Association of Canada (05/03/2001)
- New Board Appointed for the Catholic Health
Association of Canada (04/12/2000) - New Board Appointed for the CHAC (05/19/1999)
- New Board Appointed for the Catholic Health
Association of Canada (CHAC) (05/06/1998) - New Board Appointed for the CHAC (05/08/1997)
- New Board Appointed for the CHAC (05/09/1996)
- Leadership in Catholic Health Care: The National Convention of the Catholic Health Assocation of Canada (04/26/2004)
- Living with Integrity: Ethics as the Soul of Health Care (05/03/1999)
- Preserving the Values & Mission of Canada’s Health Care System - The Annual Convention of the Catholic Health Association of Canada (04/27/1998)
- CHAC Calls on National Political Parties to Adopt 10 Health Policies (05/08/1997)
- Social Justice: a "Yes" to the World (04/30/1997)
- Cultivating Commitment for the Building of a Healthy and Just Society (03/18/1997)
- Spirituality and Health: Is There a Connection? (04/1996)
- Spirituality: a Value at the Core of Health and Healing (12/1995)
- Chaos can breed creativity, says leading anthropologist at CHAC meeting (09/19/1995)
- CHAC Opposes the Destruction of Human Embryos
for Stem Cell Research Response to CIHR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research (03/06/2002) - New Health Ethics Guide Addresses Contemporary Ethical Issues (09/26/2000)
- CHAC Concerned about Clinical Trials of Abortion Pill RU-486 (04/19/2000)
- CHAC Commends Federal Health Minister for Establishing a National Council on Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation (11/03/1999)
- CHAC Gravely Concerned About Reports of Genetic Abortions (06/18/1999)
- CHAC Promotes Organ Donation and Addresses Related Ethical Issues (03/30/1999)
- Committed to Care — Never to Kill (05/15/1996)
- Groups Join Forces to Provide Advice on the Use of CPR (05/07/1996)
- CHAC issues a position statement on advance directives (12/12/1995)
- Association Welcomes Senate Report (06/08/1995)
- CHAC Urges the Prime Minister to Oppose Alberta’s “Third Way” (03/02/2006)
- First Ministers’ 10-Year Health Plan is Significant Step Forward (09/20/2004)
- Health Council can assure greater accountability in the health care system, says CHAC (12/10/2003)
- Health Accord expands Medicare but ignores dangers
of for-profit care – CHAC (02/06/2003) - Romanow Report: Medicare is a “moral enterprise, not a
business venture” (11/29/2002) - CHAC Concerned Senate Committee Recommendations Would Lead to the Commercialization of Health Care (10/25/2002)
- Evidence Does Not Support Senate Committee Assumptions (11/08/2001)
- CHAC Brief to the Romanow Commission (10/30/2001)
- CHAC Responds to Vital Health Issues (05/07/2001)
- Federal-Provincial Deal Provides Money — But Where is the Plan for Health Reform? (09/20/2000)
- CHAC Annual Assembly Calls on Federal Government to Protect Canada’s Health Care System (04/14/2000)
- CHAC Opposes Alberta Plan for Private, For-profit
Delivery of Health Care (02/09/2000) - CHAC Calls on Federal Government to Act on Key Health Issues (05/19/1999)
- CHAC Writes to all Members of Parliament (11/04/1998)
- CHAC Opposes the Establishment of a Private
Hospital in Calgary (05/27/1997) - CHAC Calls on National Political Parties to Adopt 10 Health Policies (05/08/1997)
- CHAC Endorses the National Health Forum’s Vision of a Renewed Health System (02/05/1997)
- Catholic Health Evolving (12/23/1996)
- Making Tough Choices about Resource Allocation in Health Care (10/30/1996)
- Needed: Leadership with Social Imagination (10/11/1996)
Human Reproductive and Genetic Technologies Act
- CHAC Highlights Need for Strong Values Base in new Reproductive and Genetic Technologies Legislation (03/23/2000)
- CHAC Urges Government Not to Weaken Prohibitions in New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies Legislation (06/21/1999)
- CHAC Calls on Federal Government to Act on Key Health Issues (05/19/1999)
- CHAC Writes to all Members of Parliament (11/04/1998)
- CHAC Opposes Softening Legislation on New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies (11/07/1997)
- CHAC Calls on Government to Ensure Passage of Bill C-47 Before next Federal Election (03/04/1997)
- CHAC Applauds New Legislation on Reproductive Technologies (06/18/1996)
- CHAC Welcomes Government Action on Reproductive Technologies (04/10/1996)
- CHAC Encourages Government to Take Tougher Stand: New Reproductive Technologies (08/01/1995)
- CHAC Urges Federal Government to Develop National Strategy on Palliative and End-of-Life Care (10/11/2005)
- CHAC Opposes Bill C-407 – A Bill to Legalize Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (10/03/2005)
- More Needs to be Done CHAC Endorses Carstairs End-of-Life Care Report (06/03/2005)
- CHAC Supports the Senate’s Call for a National Strategy on End-of-Life Care (06/07/2000)
- CHAC Tells Senate Quality End-of-Life Care Still Depends on the “Luck of the Draw” (03/22/2000)
- Bishop Anthony Tonnos Receives Canada’s Highest Distinction in Catholic Health Care (05/15/2005)
- Sr. Anne Collins, SCIC Receives Canada’s Highest Distinction in Catholic Health Care (05/12/2004)
- Harold Schmidt Receives Canada’s Highest Distinction in
Catholic Health Care (05/06/2003) - Father Francis Morrisey, OMI Receives Canada’s Highest Distinction in Catholic Health Care (05/06/2002)
- Sister Elizabeth Davis, RSM and The Regional Pastoral Care Service of Quebec City Receive Canada’s Highest Distinction in Catholic Health Care (05/02/2001)
- Sister Kateri Ghesquiere, CSJ Receives Canada’s
Highest Distinction in Catholic Health Care (04/11/2000) - Rev. Mark Miller Receives Canada’s Highest Distinction in Catholic Health Care (05/17/1999)
- Misericordia Sisters Receive Canada’s Highest
Distinction in Catholic Health Care (05/04/1998) - New Brunswick Couple Receive Canada’s Highest Distinction in Catholic Health Care (05/05/1997)
- Canada’s Highest Distinction in Catholic Health Care Bestowed (05/09/1996)
- Two Catholic Health Care Providers Honoured (06/07/1995)
- CHAC Celebrates World Day of the Sick (12/04/2006)
- CHAC Celebrates National Medicare Week (11/13/2006)
- New CEO for Catholic Health Association of Canada (03/18/2005)
- CHAC Launches Election Action (10/23/2000)
- CHAC Joins 21 Organizations In Proposing Mandatory Labelling of Genetically Engineered Foods (11/18/1999)
- CHAC Calls on Government to Compensate All Who Contracted Hepatitis C from Tainted Blood (05/12/1998)
- CHAC Encourages Government Not To Sign the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) (04/06/1998)
- CHAC Appoints a Person Responsible for Mission and Ethics (09/24/1997)
- CHAC launches election action (05/01/1997)