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Latest from the Christ Medicus Foundation
April 17, 2020
Christ Medicus Foundation Featured in Catholic News Service Article
FEMA issues guidelines to ensure 'equal protection' for all COVID patients
April 15, 2020
Triage: Maintaining a Catholic Ethic in Difficult Times
The COVID-19 Coronavirus has been challenging. One challenge has been determining how scarce medical resources are allocated among patients, particularly when the patients outnumber the available resources. The process of determining how different medical situations are prioritized, and then applying care and resources to people in those situations, is known as triage. The goal of triage is to save human lives to the greatest extent possible.
April 13, 2020
Press Release: Urgent Call to Protect Dignity and Civil Rights during This Pandemic: Clarifying the Right Approach to Ethical Triage Protocols
The NCBC and the Christ Medicus Foundation issued a joint press release on April 13, 2020.
April 3, 2020
Reflecting Upon the Subjective Dignity of Health Care Workers & An Appropriate Understanding of Medical Professionals
The focus of health care is to bring healing to those in need—that is, to patients. At the Christ Medicus Foundation and CMF CURO, we advocate for Christ-centered healing that recognizes the inherent dignity of each patient, the importance of individual conscience, and that Christ is the source of all healing. Additionally, we recognize the dignity of […]
March 11, 2020
Louis Brown: HealthCare – The Greatest Pro-Life Political Battle of Our Time on Al Kresta In the Afternoon
Louis Brown: HealthCare - The Greatest Pro-Life Political Battle of Our Time
March 5, 2020
California Abortion Mandate
California, a state, has discriminated against insurance plans, which are healthcare entities, on the basis that they do not provide coverage for abortion. Thus, California has clearly violated the Weldon Amendment.
January 9, 2020
Louis Brown: Health care is the pro-life battleground on Respect Life Radio
Louis Brown: Health care is the pro-life battleground on Respect Life Radio
December 4, 2019
Assistant Director of Ministry and Policy Development, Michael Vacca on Catholic Connection
Michael Vacca discusses palliative care, and parental rights in healthcare with Teresa Tomeo on Catholic Connection on Ave Maria Radio. For further reading, please read CMF’s Statement regarding PCHETA released November 2019.
December 2, 2019
Health Care: The Greatest Pro-Life Political Battle of Our Time
by CMF Executive Director, Louis Brown as featured on Public Discourse “Patient freedom would not survive a single-payer federally controlled health care system. The right to life would not survive a single-payer health care system. The right of religious freedom and faithfully Catholic health care would not survive such a federally controlled single-payer system.”
November 27, 2019
The Palliative Care Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA): the Wrong Direction
PCHETA massively expands government funding for palliative care without sufficiently safeguarding the abuse of those funds from being employed for the promotion of euthanasia and assisted suicide. For these reasons, the Christ Medicus Foundation cannot support PCHETA.”
November 20, 2019
The Catholic Medical Association, Solidarity HealthShare and Christ Medicus Foundation Applaud HHS Action to Create More Transparency in Healthcare
CMA, Solidarity HealthShare and Christ Medicus Foundation Applaud HHS Action to Create More Transparency in Healthcare. November 2019.
October 30, 2019
The Titus Cromer Case: The Moral Obligation to Protect Human and Civil Rights in Health Care
The Christ Medicus Foundation respectfully asks Beaumont Hospital to defer to the rights of the parents and provide the same excellent care to Titus that they provide to other patients.