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Religious hospitals? restrictions sparking conflicts, scrutiny

By Alliance Alert

Rob Stein writing in The Washinton Post: "Economic pressures are spurring greater consolidation in the hospital industry, prompting religiously affiliated institutions to take over or merge with secular ones, imposing church directives on them. At the same time, the drive to remain competitive has led some medical centers to evade the directives. Alongside those economic forces, changes in the church hierarchy have led increasingly conservative bishops to exert more influence over Catholic hospitals. The clashes have focused attention on the limitations on care available at Catholic hospitals."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 20, 2011 (boomark / email).