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Sister Carol Keehan discusses Catholic healthcare at Emory

By Shelia Poole
March 19, 2013

Sister Carol Keehan, president and chief executive officer of the Catholic Healthcare Association of the United States, will talk on “Challenges for Catholic Health Care in a Complex World,” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Glenn Memorial Auditorium.

Tickets to the event at Emory University are free but must be reserved in advance. The lecture is sponsored by the Aquinas Center of Theology and Emory’s Candler School of Theology.

Keehan will also address provisions of the new legislation at a keynote lecture at the annual conference of the Health Care Ethics Consortium of Georgia and the Center for Ethics at Emory. That talk, titled “The Politics of Justice: The Nation’s Healthcare Obligations and the Role of the Affordable Care Act,” will be held at 5:50 p.m. Thursday at the Emory University Conference Center. Admission to the lecture is free, but a reservation is needed by emailing hcecg@emory.edu.

About the Author

Shelia has worked at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for more than 30 years. Previously, she worked at The Lexington Herald-Leader and The Louisville Defender. Her beat is a bit of a mixed bag that includes religion and spirituality, culture and trends, race and aging. She earned degrees from Spelman College and Northwestern University.

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