title: Preserving our Catholic identity. If the health ministry is to remain faithful to its basic elements, it must first spell them out.
authors.affiliation: Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gottemoeller
mesh_terms: D002410:Catholicism; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D016519:Hospitals, Religious / Q000592:standards*; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D014481:United States