Night Read (Ohio): MetroHealth System considers closing Asia Plaza Health Center

News and notes from a day in MedCity, Ohio:

MetroHealth System is considering closing the Asia Plaza Health Center’s doors by August, moving the services elsewhere, and forcing more than 2,300 patients to change where they see their doctors, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.

Akron Children’s Hospital Medical Center will begin providing medical care this year for kids in the custody of Summit County Children Services, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has been awarded six Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs grants for $2.8 million to be used for innovative medical research in the field of breast cancer, according to a medical school release.

The Cleveland Clinic is studying how a specific type of stem cell might be able to help multiple sclerosis patients, according to NewsNet5.

Medical Account Services, the medical billing firm in Moraine, said Wednesday it was sold to Warren, N.J.-based AdvantEdge Healthcare Solutions for undisclosed terms, according to the Dayton Business Journal.

Home health care supplier Apria Healthcare Inc. plans to lay off 33 workers in Minster on Jan. 29, according to a Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification Act notice, the Dayton Daily News reported.

BioOhio will award four $1,250 scholarships to Ohio high school seniors who pursue bioscience degrees at Ohio colleges or universities through its newly launched BioOhio Annual Scholarship program, the state’s bioscience development organization said in a release.

Akron Children’s Hospital Medical Center has hired pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Roger Hudgins as division director of neurosurgery and clinical director of the hospital’s Neuroscience Institute, according to a release. Hudgins had been chief medical officer for neurosciences and craniofacial surgery at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and chief of pediatric neurosurgery and a clinical professor in neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine.