Doctors from Akron Children’s Hospital will begin providing specialty pediatric care at MetroHealth System’s main Cleveland campus in January. Akron Children’s specialists will focus on the areas of pediatric cardiology, gastroenterology, cancer and blood disorders, and critical care.

Akron Children’s Hospital is finalizing a deal to own and operate the special-care nursery at Summa Health System’s Akron City Hospital.The boards from the two hospitals are expected to approve the deal in separate meetings Thursday. Once approved, Akron Children’s will take over the 21-bed unit for premature and critically [...]

Akron Children’s Hospital has hired a chief information officer to oversee information technology for its growing system.Tom Ogg comes to Akron Children’s from Oakwood Healthcare Systems in Dearborn, Michigan where he was corporate director and chief technology officer. The Oakwood system includes four acute teaching hospitals and 40 primary care/specialty care sites.Prior to that, Ogg [...]

In another move to relieve its itch for expansion, Akron Children’s Hospital has acquired a busy allergy practice.The pediatric hospital this month purchased the Allergy & Asthma Center of Northeast Ohio, which includes three allergy and immunology specialists.Drs. Rajeev Kishore, Ravi Karnani and Nancy Wasserbauer Kingston will continue to be located [...]

The way Carrie Gavriloff sees it, you should never judge a tube by its color.When the education coordinator of nursing products for Akron Children’s Hospital heard about an international effort to improve the safety of tube-feeding supplies, she challenged the concept of using color-coded items.If nurses or other caregivers rely on [...]

Akron Children’s Hospital is investing $7 million to bring outpatient surgery services to the Youngstown-Warren area.The pediatric hospital recently started construction and renovation of a 14,000-square-foot surgery department on the Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley campus in the Youngstown suburb of Boardman.When the unit opens in October, it will be [...]

Akron Children’s Hospital has appointed a former nursing director to chief nursing officer.Lisa Aurilio, who’s worked at Akron Children’s since 2004, will take over the chief nursing officer role from Grace Wakulchik, who last month was promoted to chief operating officer.Aurilio’s appointment is effective as of June 7.Akron Children’s operates a 253-bed pediatric hospital in [...]

Akron Children’s Hospital has appointed a longtime employee and former nurse as its new chief operating officer.Grace Wakulchik, who started her career with Akron Children’s in 1992 and had been chief nursing officer since 2003, will take over the COO role from Mark Watson, according to a statement from the hospital.Watson will take on the [...]

The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron has landed three medical innovators to head its centers for medical device development, integrated health care education and community health improvement.The new vice presidents also will lead collaborative efforts across the institute’s operating partners on initiatives that focus on patient-centered innovation and commercialization in biomaterials and medicine. The [...]

AKRON — Akron Children’s Hospital is participating in the third phase of the international DiaPrevent study evaluating the effectiveness of a vaccine to prevent further progression of Type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes, in newly-diagnosed patients.Jessica Richiutti recently learned she’s a Type 1 diabetic.Her disease causes her immune system to [...]