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标题：Cultural conundrums
作者：Van Schaik, Terry
期刊名称：Health Progress
印刷版ISSN：0882-1577
电子版ISSN：1943-3417
出版年度：2001
卷号：May/Jun 2001
出版社：Catholic Health Association of the United States

Cultural conundrums

Van Schaik, Terry

This issue of Health Progress looks at the legal climate in which mergers and acquisitions occur and at both theoretical and practical examples of the way organizations might prepare for, and then live out, the successful joining together of two or more cultures.

This issue of Health Progress - appearing as it does on the eve of the 86th Catholic Health Assembly, whose theme is "Keeping the Faith: Energizing the Culture of Catholic Health Care"-explores aspects of organizational and ministry culture from several vantage points.

"The Ties That Bind: Considerations in Mergers and Acquisitions," a special section put together by guest editor Mary Kathryn Grant, PhD, looks at the legal climate in which such transactions occur and at both theoretical and practical examples of the way organizations might prepare for, and then five out, the successful joining together of two or more cultures.

In addition, both Rev. Michael D. Place, STD, and Br. Tom Maddix, CSC, Dmin, use personal experiences to describe the essential role of mentors in s teaching, and transmitting cultural elements that, for those fortunate enough to receive them, so often turn out to build wisdom.

GOD'S HEALING THROUGH HUMAN HANDS

Bishop Anthony M. Pilla asks why people, many of whom find modern existence to be increasingly frustrating and alienating, often choose to come to Catholic health care facilities. They come, he replies, because they are drawn to a culture in which they hope to find God's compassion, comfort, gentleness, and healing issuing from the hands of the people caring for them.

ALSO MEMBERS OF THE TEAM

Hospital volunteers and "prehospital" emergency medical service professionals are often forgotten members of the health care community. Articles by Lynette Ballard and Rhoda Weiss ask us to examine ways we might communicate mission and values to such colleagues, thereby involving them as active contributors to our own learning, development, and culture.

Terry Van Schaik

EDITOR