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Dear Hello, 

This month's newsletter highlights include:

• Affiliate Spotlight: U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs | VISN 16
• Celebrating Caritas College: Erica D. Anderson
• Lotus Recognitions: Trinity Health's TogetherTeam™️ & St Francis Hospital
• Community News
• Bienvenue Watson Caring France Group
• Video of the Month: AI and the Ontology of Being
• The Caring Store: Singing Bowl Sale
• Your membership matters. Become a Member Today!

VISN 16, led by Michael E Debakey VA Houston TX, is recognized as a WCSI Distinguished Affiliate for their expansion of Caring Science Affiliates throughout the South Central VISN 16 Region. This includes implementing new innovative Caring-Healing programs for staff support and caring cultural change. VISN 16 includes Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System Little Rock, Arkansas; G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center Jackson Mississippi; Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System Medical Center Biloxi VA Medical Center Biloxi Mississippi; Michael E. Debakey VA Medical Center, Houston Texas; Overton Brooks VA Medical Center, Shreveport Louisiana; Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System New Orleans VA Medical Center, New Orleans Louisiana; Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks
Fayetteville VA Medical Center, Fayatteville Arkansas.

Thank you VISN16 for your outstanding service to patients, staff, families and our Veteran community. 

VISN 16

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Celebrating Erica D. Anderson, DNP, RN, CNS, CNL, PHN, Caritas Coach®, Caritas Leader®.

"I am continuing to uphold and champion the Caritas values as a way of life both personally and professionally."

• Caritas Coach Education Program® applications open for Nov start: Apply Here
• Congratulations to our Japanese colleagues Naoko Kondo, Kaori Mayama, Masashi Kawano on their article A Study on the Changes in the Perception of Human Caring Among Japanese Nursing Students During Their First Year: 

  Read in Japanese: (日本人) Read in English: (English)

• Congratulations to Italian Colleague Dr. Marika Lo Monaco Università degli Studi di Palermo on the recent publication and validation of WCSI Co-Worker Measurement Scores in Italian! Read here
• Read Caritas Colleague Pat McClendon's article on Healing Circles: Read here

Bienvenue aux collègues en France! Did you know WCSI has formally created global country groups, to help nurses and nursing unite and expand shared values, philosophies, theories, and commitments to advance human caring, healing, health and peace for our world.

Our goal is to create a network of practitioners, leaders, administrators, educators, scholars, and researchers of Watson’s Caring Science scholarship and spread grass roots global programs and human caring initiatives around the world. 

LIA Group = WCSI Latino Ibero-America country groups who work together in Spanish and Portuguese.

Congratulations

to our 2 latest Lotus Recognition designated to  Trinity Health for

its groundbreaking TogetherTeam Virtual Connected Care™ model. And to Trinity Health Saint Francis Hospital, for their authentic commitment and demonstration of values, philosophy, and human caring theory-guided practices of Watson's Caring Science. View all awardees.

In gratitude of your enduring support,

Jean & Julie Watson and all at WCSI