CHA holds a number of webinars and virtual programs throughout the year on topics important to the ministry. We are in the process of moving them to this new platform. Please watch for upcoming announcements. In the meantime, you are able to watch on-demand recordings of previous programs and courses.
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CHA holds a number of webinars and virtual programs throughout the year on topics important to the ministry. Below you will find our archive of program recordings. You can scroll through or use the search at the top of this page to find a specific program. All recordings are available to CHA members and many are available to both members and nonmember. Please note that all recordings require you to log in (whether or not you are a CHA member).
Laudato Si' Action Platform: Answering the Call to Care for Creation
About the Laudato Si' Action Platform Launched in 2021, the Vatican-sponsored grassroots effort is mobilizing the global Catholic Church to take action rooted in...
Signs of Our Times-Virtual Formation Resources
Formation is and has always been the heartbeat of our ministry. That truth remains as we live in a world where in-person access becomes increasingly complicated. Our...
Ecclesial Relationships in Catholic Health Care: A Course for Sponsors and Leaders
Emerging Topics in Catholic Health Care Ethics, Series 2
An Ethics Webinar Series Co-sponsored by the Catholic Health Association in cooperation with Georgetown University Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Loyola...
Emerging Topics in Catholic Health Care Ethics
In our ongoing commitment to provide timely, relevant information about emerging issues for Catholic health care, the Catholic Health Association is offering a monthly...
The Future of Mission Leadership: 2022 Mission Leader Survey
This webinar will delve deeper into relevant findings and allow for a robust, clear-eyed conversation about implications for the future of mission leadership....
Preparing for Medicaid Unwinding
The end of the COVID-19 federal Public Health Emergency declaration will trigger the reevaluation of over 80 million Medicaid beneficiaries continued eligibility for...
Spiritual / Pastoral Care Dialogues - Essential Services in Continuing Care
During this first dialogue, members of the Continuing Care Subcommittee of the CHA Spiritual Care Advisory Council, along with CHA staff, will present and seek input...
World AIDS Day – A Conversation About the Catholic Church's Role in Caring for HIV Patients During the Past 40 Years
In this CHA conversation, Michael J. O'Loughlin, an award-winning journalist and national correspondent for America Media will share his reporting on Catholic...
What Counts as Community Benefit (2022)
Does it count as community benefit? What are the guiding principles for reporting (and not reporting) community benefit programs? This webinar will review the basic...
Mission Leaders as Strategists, Advocates & Executives: A Competency Building Webinar Series
Minority Health Month Watch Webinar: Is Racism Making People Sick?
This webinar will include the short film and then a panel discussion about the issues it highlights.
Feast of St. Francis Webinar (2021)
Published in 2015, Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si’ called on “all men and women of good will” to acknowledge the urgency of our environmental challenges and work...
Integral Ecology: The Bond Between Justice and Caring for Creation
We Are Called Webinar Series
The benefits of having a diverse board are clear — broader perspectives lead to deeper discussions, more comprehensive thinking and fewer missteps in implementing new...
What Counts as Community Benefit?
Does it count as community benefit? What are the guiding principles for reporting (and not reporting) community benefit programs? This webinar will review the basic...
Pandemic Impacts on Preventing and Assisting Victims of Human Trafficking in Catholic Ministries
This 60-minute webinar will focus on the impact of the pandemic on identifying, assisting and overall efforts to eradicate human trafficking. Presenters from various...
Feast of St. Francis Webinar: Caring for Creation: Making the Commitment to Reduce Carbon Emissions
In his recent message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation Pope Francis laments the destruction of our common home and calls for "all of us to act...
Watch Webinar – View the Film “Toxic, A Black Woman’s Story”
During this webinar watch the 20-minute film, “Toxic, A Black Woman’s Story,” which shows a "day in the life" of a pregnant Black woman and the myriad stressors she...
Sustaining Catholic Senior Care
Senior care across the country is experiencing major challenges as COVID-19 magnified systemic weaknesses in funding, staffing, pandemic preparedness, disconnections...
Webinar Series: Sponsorship - Sustaining the Ministry
CHA is pleased to offer "Sponsorship: Sustaining the Ministry," a new webinar series to explore the theoretical and practical dimensions of these contemporary...
We Are Called Conversation Series
CHA members share how their organizations are working to meet the goals of our ministry's new collective initiative to confront racism, Confronting Racism to Achieve...
Webinar Series: The Elderly - Our Future
Revered by some cultures and pushed aside and forgotten by others, elders are more and more in our midst. This webinar series will open a conversation starting from...
Environmental Justice – A Conversation with Activist Hilton Kelley
When Navy veteran and stunt man/actor Hilton Kelley returned to his predominantly black hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, for a vacation after a long absence, he was...
2021 - IRS 990, Schedule H: An Overview and Update on Current Tax-Exemption Issues
Tax-exempt hospitals report their community benefit activities and other information related to their tax exemption on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990,...
Webinar Series: Bridging Identity & Inclusivity to Create Health Equity
We are called to build true health equity. In the face of COVID-19 testing, treatment, and vaccine distribution, and as a part of our ongoing work to end systemic...
Dementia Care During a Time of COVID
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on most long-term care facilities. In the last eight months, most have had to adjust and improvise their policies and procedures to...
Webinar Series: COVID-19 Vaccines Are Coming - Are We Ready for Ethical, Equitable Distribution?
The arrival of promising COVID vaccines brings hope to millions of people who have longed for a safe and effective way to bring an end to the pandemic. As we move...
Investing in Community Health: A Toolkit for Hospitals
A CHA/Vizient Community Benefit Webinar Decades of structural racism and disinvestment have resulted in places of concentrated poverty and significant health...
Eldercare Webinar: Delirium in LTC — COVID Implications
Delirium is an acute, fluctuating disturbance in awareness and cognition that can occur in older people. It can be reversible and often preventable. It is almost...
Feast of St. Francis Webinar: Today's Climate Call – Perspectives of Saint Francis & Pope Francis
This webinar will feature Fr. Tom Nairn, OFM, Ph.D., Provincial Minister of the Franciscan Province of the Sacred Heart, who as a Franciscan, ethicist and theologian,...
Webinar Series: Business Ethics and Catholic Health Care
As we navigate ongoing disruptions and uncertainties of COVID-19 in business, health and society, critical questions arise around just wages for essential workers and...
Ministry Formation Suite Webinar Series - Formation in a Virtual World
The coronavirus pandemic has underscored the power and potential of the virtual world to bring us together. As we navigate the new landscape of health care and explore...
Webinar Series: Catholic Ethics and the Challenge of COVID-19
A complimentary webinar series co-sponsored by the Catholic Health Association and Georgetown University in cooperation with the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics.
Webinar Series: Ministry Formation Series
Webinar Series: Our Well-Being - A Webinar Series Sharing Wellness Resources
As we cannot give what we do not have, associate health, spirituality and security are critical to providing compassionate care. During COVID-19 and the "new normal"...
2020: What Counts as Community Benefit? What are Implications of COVID-19?
Does it count as community benefit? What are the guiding principles for reporting (and not reporting) community benefit programs? What are some reporting...
Ethics Support in Responding to COVID-19: A Case Study of Providence St. Joseph Health
From the moment the first confirmed U.S. COVID-19 patient was admitted to Providence Regional Medical Center Everett near Seattle last January, Providence St. Joseph...
COVID-19 Recovery Funding for Health Care Webinar
In light of severe financial challenges threatening hospitals and health care providers across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, CHA is presenting a special...
How to Talk About Climate Change — CHA's 2020 Earth Day Webinar
Most Americans understand that climate change is real and are concerned about it. But most still see climate change as a threat not concerning them personally, in...
Making Ethical Choices With Limited Resources: Lessons From Catholic Health Care
As the rate of COVID-19 escalates across the country and concerns multiply about the scarcity of resources to diagnose and treat the virus, important questions are...
CHA Pandemic Webinar: Lessons from Ground Zero
On Wednesday, March 25 CHA hosted a special presentation and discussion about the coronavirus pandemic and the work of Catholic health care to respond. Our...
2020 - IRS 990, Schedule H: An Overview
Tax-exempt hospitals report their community benefit activities and other information related to their tax exemption on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990,...
Navigating the New Wired World: An Exploration of the Ethical Considerations of Online Searching for Patient Information
A Discussion of Why Organized Medicine Must Maintain Its Opposition to Assisted Suicide
Physician-assisted suicide is now legal in 10 states and efforts are underway to legalize the practice across the country. State and national health professional...
The Urgent Need to Heal our Home: A Feast of St Francis Webinar
As we approach the fifth anniversary of Laudato Si', join us for a discussion about Pope Francis' encyclical with Jesuit Father Rick Malloy. During this one-hour...
Ministering to the Mission: Strategic Spiritual Care During Organizational Transition
Rabbi Dr. Nadia Siritsky, vice president of mission at KentuckyOne Health Jewish Hospital, will speak about the strategic partnership between the mission leader and...
Tax Exemption Issues
Compliance with community benefit regulations is a key part of maintaining your organization's tax-exempt status. It is important for everyone in the organization that...
Webinar Series: Pastoral Care
CHA is pleased to offer two pastoral care related webinars, on August 13 and 27. CHA and the staff of the National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC) will unpack...
Achieving Health Equity Through Increased Understanding, Sustainable Solutions and Collective Action
This CHA webinar highlights how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of Minority Health is working to eliminate health disparities and improve the...
Protecting Patients from Surprise Billing
In this CHA webinar, Jack Hoadley, research professor emeritus of the Health Policy Institute, McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, discussed...
2019: What Counts as Community Benefit?
Does it count as community benefit? What are the guiding principles for reporting (and not reporting) programs and activities as community benefit? Presenters Trina...
2019 - Earth Day Webinar
Join us for a spirited, online discussion with environmental expert, Gary Cohen, who is president and co-founder of Health Care Without Harm (HCWH). During this...
Donations for Disaster Relief: Intentions and Impact
First do no harm — that's our mantra as a health care community striving to shepherd health and wellness in the communities we serve. The same passion and innovation...
Project Legacy: Succession Planning for Crucial Roles in the Ministry
This one-hour webinar highlights a CHA initiative to assist the Catholic health ministry in talent development and succession planning for mission, pastoral care and...
Eldercare Webinar: Trauma-Informed Care - Practical Implications
Traumatic experiences can affect the physiology as well as the behaviors and reactions of survivors. This session will explore the current understanding of trauma and...
Community Benefit Webinar - IRS Form 990, Schedule H
Tax-exempt hospitals report their community benefit activities and other information related to their tax exemption on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990,...
A Catholic Health System's Comprehensive Approach to Addressing Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery. Force, fraud, or coercion are used to trap victims into commercial sex or forced labor. Victims are children,...
Community Benefit and Finance/Tax Staff: Cultivating Relationships for Accurate Reporting
Accurate community benefit reporting requires a close working relationship between community benefit and finance staff. This webinar, based on a new resource developed...
Community Benefit and Eldercare Webinar: The Family Caregivers Center
Across the country, more than 40 million family caregivers are caring for an adult living with a chronic health condition. Whether grappling with a new dementia...
Advancing Healthy Interiors in Health Care — Webinar for the Feast of St. Francis
The health care sector is a heavy user of chemicals. While some are useful, many have negative effects on the health of people and the environment. As health care...
Understanding the Revision to Part Six of the ERDs
After several years of dialogue and consultation, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops recently approved a revision to Part Six of the Ethical and...
Mission Leader Toolkit - A Webinar to Showcase this New Resource
CHA has developed an online toolkit to support the lived experiences of mission leaders and grow their unique skill set as they lead the integration of Catholic...
What Can We Learn from our Founders about the Opioid Epidemic?
Epidemics are not new to Catholic health care or to the Catholic Church. For centuries, members of religious congregations have provided care and treatment for...
Webinar Series: Community Benefit Webinar Series
The series is designed to help community benefit managers document the progress and impact of their programs while meeting Internal Revenue Service and/or funder...
Hospital-Community Collaborations to Promote Healthy Food Access
With access to healthy food crucial to the health and well-being of our communities, many community benefit programs are working with partners to make fresh, healthy...
What Counts as Community Benefit? (2018)
Does it count as community benefit? What are the guiding principles for reporting (and not reporting) community benefit programs? This webinar will review the basic...
Making the Case for Primary Care
Primary care is sometimes viewed as the neglected stepchild of medicine. This webinar will discuss ways in which a strong primary care base is necessary for an...
Climate Change, Catholics, and Health: CHA Environment Webinar for Earth Day 2018
Why, as Catholics, do we care about climate change? Why, as health care providers, do we care about climate change? And if we care, what do we do about it? These...
Good Intentions - Bad Results - Mitigating the Unintended Effects of Unconscious Bias
The unintended consequences of unconscious bias can be seen and experienced across all industries. Due to the evidenced-based impact of unconscious bias on safety,...
Community Benefit Webinar: IRS Form 990 Schedule H: An Overview
Tax-exempt hospitals report their community benefit activities and other information related to their tax exemption on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990,...
A Medical Safe Haven for Victims – A CHA Human Trafficking Webinar
A Dignity Health family medicine center in Sacramento has created a safe haven medicine residency clinic. It serves the dual purpose of providing medical care for...
Complying with IRS Regulations under Section 501®
Final regulations implementing the Affordable Care Act requirements for tax-exempt hospitals became effective the first day of a hospital’s 2016 tax year. The Internal...
Barriers to Palliative Care in the Long-Term Care Setting
This webinar makes the case that palliative care is a model for excellence in long-term health care. By creating a culture of palliative care and putting in place...
Preparing for the Ethics of Population Health: Our Moral Tradition Considered Anew
Population health is increasingly important in U.S. health care in light of the Affordable Care Act and widespread acceptance of the Triple Aim framework from the...
Climate Change and Health - Webinar for the Feast of St. Francis
This webinar was broadcast on September 30, 2016. It addresses climate change as both a moral and health concern to Catholic health care providers. Our faith and...
Physician, Heal Thyself? Living the Mission in Catholic Health Care by Addressing Physician Wellness
Catholic health care emphasizes care for the whole patient: body, mind and soul, but do we extend this focus to those who are responsible for providing that care? What...
Ethics Webinar: 21st Century Genomic Medicine: What Care and for Whom?
Almost daily one finds reports in the media touting new and exciting advances in genetic research and genomic medicine. Often implicit in these reports are multiple...
ERDs and Catholic Long-Term Care Providers
The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, often called the ERDs or the Directives, is the document that offers moral guidance, drawn from...
Subsidiarity: A Leadership Principle for Good Work
The heart of good leadership is a respect in action that assists leaders to take another look (re-spect from the Latin respectare to re-look) at their employees. An...
IRS Form 990 Schedule H: A Review of 2014 - 2015 Form and Instructions (Community Benefit Webinar)
Tax-exempt hospitals report their community benefit activities and other information related to their tax exemption on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990,...
Nursing Care and Laudato Si': Climate Change and the Nursing Response
In 2015, Pope Francis called for a new dialogue on the future of our planet. The Encyclical Letter, Laudato Si', Care for our Common Home, has particular significance...
Guiding Principles for Conducting International Health Activities
Compelled to continue Jesus' mission of love and healing today, U.S.-based Catholic health care organizations are reaching out to our brothers and sisters around the...
Mission Integration in long-Term Care
Mission integration continues to evolve into all aspects of health care delivery. While mission leaders were originally used in acute care settings, they now can be...
Medically Administered Nutrition and Hydration: Is it Ethically Required with Dementia and Stroke Patients?
This webinar reviews the topic of the use of feeding tubes with particular attention to the care of individuals with dementing illnesses and strokes. The discussion...
Match Made In Heaven: Health Care and School Systems as Partners
This community benefit webinar describes how one hospital joined forces with the local school system to deliver primary care and population health services to 43,000...
Short-Term Medical Mission Trips Recommendations for Practice
This CHA resource shares 20 Recommendations for Practice that Catholic health care leaders should use to review current and to consider future short-term medical...
Environmental Stewardship – Advocacy and Action
This CHA webinar, in celebration of the Feast of St. Francis, patron saint of the environment (October 4), highlighted Catholic health care’s mission imperative to...
Medically Inappropriate Treatment: Can We Do Better?
Requests for treatment deemed medically inappropriate, often referred to as requests for "futile treatment," constitute one of the most intractable ethical challenges...
ACA Requirements for Tax-Exempt Hospitals Final Rule (Community Benefit Webinar)
This webinar was broadcast on February 20, 2015. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department published final rules implementing the Affordable Care...
Climate Change: An Issue of Concern to the Church, Pope Francis and Catholic Health Care
This webinar was broadcast on February 18, 2015. It underscored how climate change is a moral and public health concern that is of great concern to Catholic health...
Canon Law 101 for Mission Leaders
This webinar was broadcast on January 29, 2015. The 2013 CHA Mission Leader Survey indicated most mission leaders see a need to grow in their competency of canon law...
Effective Spiritual Care Staffing in the Midst of Health Care Reform (Mission Webinar)
What does a "model" spiritual care staffing matrix look like in today's Catholic health care organization? This question was posed to the Catholic Health Association...
Connecting Catholic Social Teaching, Triple Bottom Line and Triple Aim (Environmental Responsibility Webinar)
As pressure continues for health care to deliver maximum value with minimal costs, environmental stewardship programs become part of the organization's operational...
Workplace Spirituality in the Midst of Transitions (Mission Webinar)
Presented on September 4, 2014 | Catholic health care has extended its holistic vision of the human person to associates and physicians by creating opportunities for...
Doing Good and Avoiding ‘Evil’ in Population Health Management (Ethics Webinar)
The shift to population health and new delivery models is generating a wave of partnerships among hospitals, physician networks, insurers and other health care...
What Counts as Community Benefit? (2014)
To report or not report? That is the question that keeps coming to CHA staff related to community benefit planning and reporting! This one-hour webinar reviewed the...
Health and Wellness Promotion Programs in the Workplace
Many employers have initiated or are considering health and wellness programs for their employees. These programs seek to improve employee health, decrease workplace...
Developing Effective Implementation Strategies
Under the Affordable Care Act tax-exempt hospitals are required to conduct community health needs assessments and adopt implementation strategies that address needs...
Putting Excellence in Ethics into Practice: Two Real World Examples
In summer 2011, CHA and Ascension Health unveiled a new ethics resource and assessment tool to assist organizations in the Catholic health ministry in assessing the...
POLST: A Dangerous Development or a Useful Tool? (Ethics Webinar)
POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) continues to gain popularity across the country with more and more states passing legislation to give it legal...