title: An innovative way to continue the ministry. A Catholic multi-institutional healthcare system achieves public juridic person status.
abstract: Members in a Catholic multi-institutional healthcare system that has been established as a public juridic person know their missions will be carried on even if they must leave the healthcare field. The establishment of a public juridic person was a goal of the Catholic Health Corporation (CHC), Omaha, since it began in 1980. The juridic person was to be named Catholic Health Care Federation (CHCF) in order to distinguish the canonical juridic person from the civil law corporation. It took many years to determine which competent authority was the most appropriate to grant CHCF public juridic status. The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (CICLSAL) was deemed the appropriate authority. CICLSAL established CHCF as a public juridic person on June 8, 1991. CHCF's member religious institutes are the same as CHC's. But CHCF is the canonical sponsor for two owned facilities and manages a third community-owned facility. The religious institutes remain the sole canonical sponsor for their own facilities; however, they jointly sponsor three facilities through CHCF. Public juridic person status is a way for CHCF to continue Christ's healing mission.
authors: Franciscan Friars of the Third Order Regular, Etters, PA.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Hite
authors: J E
authors: JE
authors: Poe
mesh_terms: D002410:Catholicism; D016519:Hospitals, Religious / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009329:Nebraska; D012954:Societies, Hospital; D014481:United States