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PromptCare at Lourdes gets non-critical patients on the road to recovery within an hour. Willingboro, New Jersey (PRWEB) May 01, 2013 Hoping to treat patients with minor emergencies in a more efficient manner, Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County has expanded its emergency department to include a dedicated area called PromptCare. Encompassing eight treatment rooms, PromptCare gives patients quicker access to care for non- life-threatening illnesses and injuries and helps to...
Expanded long-term acute care (LTAC) hospital will help further meet care needs of area residents. WILLINGBORO, NJ (PRWEB) April 16, 2013 Lourdes Specialty Hospital of Southern New Jersey, a hospital for seriously ill acute patients who require extended hospital stays before returning home, is expanding. Located on two floors of Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County, the hospital more than doubled its capacity. This is the second phase of expansion for Lourdes Specialty Hospital,...
Historical statue is brought down today for major repairs CAMDEN, N.J., Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, a South Jersey landmark that has stood high atop Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center since 1949, was safely taken down today to repair damage from this summer's earthquake. The Aug. 23 earthquake caused sections of the 30-foot, 15-ton statue to shift several inches, causing chipping and a number of vertical cracks. This presented a...
A woman with a degenerative nerve disease said Monday in Turin, Italy, she no longer needs a wheelchair and can run since visiting a shrine at Lourdes, France. She visited the Roman Catholic Shrine of St. Bernadette in France Aug. 5 and said she was in a healing bath when she felt a pain in her legs and a voice encouraging her. ''Ever since I came back I have been walking, doing everything normally," Antonia Raco, 50, told ANSA news service. Raco said she was in a wheelchair for four years....
LIVERPOOL'S renowned Lourdes hospital marked its 80th anniversary yesterday with a new name. Lourdes, the first private hospital in the city, was set up by nuns from the order The Poor Servants of the Mother of God in 1929. Now run by private health firm Spire Healthcare, it will be known as Spire Hospital following a ceremony to mark the change. The hospital moved to its present site in Greenbank Road, Mossley Hill, in 1943, after the old building was bombed. Yesterday's occasion...
Intelliworks, Inc., a leading provider of relationship management and marketing software for higher education, today announced that Lourdes College Graduate School will manage its prospective student contacts, events and electronic communications though the Intelliworks CRM platform. "In the past, we used multiple Excel spreadsheets to manage data since our student information system isn't very user friendly," said Keith Ramsdell, director of graduate admissions. "We've already started...
By The Associated Press LOURDES, France (AP) - As millions of pilgrims do each year, Pope Benedict XVI drank water Saturday from the Lourdes spring famed for miraculous cures as he visited a grotto at the sanctuary he calls a "citadel of hope." A young girl in 19th century peasant costume handed the pontiff a glass of the water from the spring that burst through the ground 150 years ago when a local girl, Bernadette Soubirous, had repeated visions of the Virgin Mary. The grotto sheltered...
Pope Benedict XVI, holding an open-air mass Sunday in Lourdes, France, said there is love in the world that is stronger than evil. The 81-year-old pontiff addressed tens of thousands of pilgrims at a Catholic shrine in the Pyrenees Mountains foothills where, in 1858, 14-year-old peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous told priests the Virgin Mary had appeared to her, the BBC reported. The mass at the shrine, known as Grotto of Massabielle or the Cave of Apparitions, was the second outdoor mass...
By FRANCES D'EMILIO By Frances D'Emilio The Associated Press LOURDES, France As millions of pilgrims do each year, Pope Benedict XVI drank water Saturday from the Lourdes spring famed for miraculous cures as he visited a grotto at the sanctuary he calls a "citadel of hope." A young girl in 19th century peasant costume handed the pontiff a glass of the water from the spring that burst through the ground 150 years ago when a local girl, Bernadette Soubirous, had repeated visions of the...
NEWARK, N.J., July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexander J. Hatala, president and CEO of Catholic Health East New Jersey (CHE-NJ), today announced the completion of an asset purchase agreement with Cathedral Healthcare System that makes Saint Michael's Medical Center, Inc. the newest affiliate of Catholic Health East, one of the nation's largest not-for-profit health systems. "We are delighted to welcome Saint Michael's Medical Center into the CHE-NJ family," said Hatala. "With the addition of Saint...
