Health Care Reform | CHW Reform

CHW has been advocating for comprehensive health care reform for more than two decades. We believe that reform must include expanding access, improving quality, and constraining costs, so that health care is no longer a barrier, but instead serves to enhance lives and ensure opportunities for prosperity.

At Catholic Healthcare West, we believe that quality health care is a basic human right. But right now, health care in America costs too much. CHW is looking at every area of our business to see where we can be more efficient without compromising quality.

At Catholic Healthcare West, we believe that health care is as essential to social wellbeing as is the availability of food and shelter. In other words, it's a basic human right, and should be available and affordable for everyone. We are committed to making that a reality.

It's going to take a whole lot of innovation to improve quality, increase access, and decrease costs all across America. And at CHW, innovation doesn't just mean cutting-edge technology. It means everyone working smarter.

Better quality of care at a lower cost. This is what health care reform is all about, and it's what the 53,000 women and men of Catholic Healthcare West stand ready to help create.

Catholic Healthcare West embarked on a series of town hall meetings in six cities, at seven hospitals, with more than 750 participants. While individual perspectives differed, participants all agreed upon the urgent need for national health reform.

For eight days in August, volunteer caregivers from Catholic Healthcare West and several other health agencies turned the L.A. Forum into the largest free health care event in the U.S.

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