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Sisters of Charity-Exempla hospital shakeup to alter Denver-area health care

By | 01.08.10 | 4:55 pm

On the ground in the Denver metro area, health care is being reformed for thousands of residents but the changes have nothing to do with pending federal health-care legislation. They come from the private sector. Kansas-based Sisters of Charity of…

Proposed hospital buyout could limit reproductive, end-of-life care

By | 06.08.09 | 11:11 am

The contentious transfer of two Colorado-based Exempla hospitals to a Catholic health care network is likely to further shrink comprehensive health care services for Denver-area patients because they violate church doctrine.

Local patients seeking reproductive health care or termination of invasive life support could soon face health care professionals invoking conscience clauses, should the transfer of Exempla Lutheran Hospital in Wheat Ridge and Exempla Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette to the Kansas-based Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System be approved.