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A d d e n d U M I I
Consortium Web site, www.caritasconsortium.org, and my Web site:
www.uchsc.edu/nursing/caring.
Sponsors of the International Caritas Consortium to date are:
• University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver,
Colorado
• Miami Baptist, Miami, Florida
• Resurrection Health System, Chicago, Illinois
• Inova Health, Fairfax, Virginia
• Central Baptist Health, Lexington, Kentucky
• Scripps Health, La Jolla, California
• Bon Secours Health, Richmond, Virginia
• Scottsdale Health, Scottsdale, Arizona

Projected sponsors include:
• Jacksonville Baptist Health, Jacksonville, Florida
• Memorial Bon Secours Health, Charleston, South Carolina
• Casper Medical Center, Casper, Wyoming

INTERNATIONAL CARITAS CONSORTIUM (ICC) CHARTER
Purpose
The main purposes of this emerging International Caritas Con-
sortium are:

1. To explore diverse ways to bring the caring theory to life in aca-
demic and clinical practice settings by supporting and learning
from each other; and
2. To share knowledge and experiences so that we might help
guide self and others in the journey to live the caring philosophy
and theory in our personal/professional life.
The consortium gatherings will:

• Provide an intimate forum to renew, restore, and deepen each
person’s, and each system’s, commitment and authentic prac-
tices of human caring in their personal/professional life and
work;

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