Tim Moran still remembers hearing his prematurely born daughter scream when an adult-sized cannula was inserted in her mouth and taped to her face to deliver oxygen. Several years later, Moran has started PediaWorks, a not-for-profit organization that will work with medical professionals to develop pediatric medical devices, spinning off for-profit companies to commercialize those devices.
A merger feasibility study committee unanimously approved a report that recommends merging the Akron Health Department and the Summit County Health District, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
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, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Laser vision correction procedure volume by LCA-Vision Inc. in Cincinnati continued to declined in the fourth quarter of 2009, the company reported Tuesday.
Live Web chats are part of an interactive media tool set that is getting out the message of Akron Children's Hospital, boosting its profile as a pediatric expert and leading to more specialized surgeries for patients who come from as far away as California.
Akron Children's Hospital provided nearly $60 million in benefits to its communities in 2008 -- a 23 percent increase from 2007.
Akron Children's Hospital Medical Center is talking about expanding its main campus... again. But the children's hospital is expanding with more than bricks and mortar. Its board of trustees wants the hospital to expand its complex businesses -- often subspecialists' services that earn higher reimbursements from public and private insurers.
The University of Cincinnati Department of Psychiatry hopes to join a national network proposed by U.S. Senate legislation to improve research, diagnosis, treatment and care for those suffering from depressive disorders.
Akron Children's Hospital Medical Center has received a $1 million gift commitment from longtime CEO William Considine and his wife, Rebecca, to help launch a research institute at the children's hospital system. The gift, which comes during William Considine's 30th year as leader of Akron Children's, will establish the Rebecca D. Considine Clinical Research Institute.
Akron Children's Hospital Medical Center is growing again -- this time in its own backyard. Since 1979, the children's hospital has expanded from one location to 78, stretching from Norwalk east to Youngstown and south to Mansfield; from 900 employees to more than 4,000.
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The president and chief executive of Akron Children's Hospital, sees himself with a cloth in hand, polishing his jewel of a children's hospital. Despite his longtime advocacy for children, however, Considine said he can't give himself a passing grade for focusing the national health care reform debate on children's issues.
On its first anniversary, the BioInnovation Institute in Akron added "Austen" to its name, recognizing internationally renown heart surgeon and retiring Knight Foundation Chairman Dr. W. Gerald Austen and his wife Patricia R. Austen. In its first year, the bioinnovation institute has hired an experienced CEO, launched five centers of excellence, attracted nationally recognized board members, and academic and clinical researchers.
It's been a long, contentious August, when it comes to the health care reform debate. Today, members of Congress return to Washington to pick up where they left off before their summer recess. MedCity News asked Ohio health care leaders a question: "Are we headed in the right direction with health care reform? Why or why not?"
The founder and former executive director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center of Biomedical Innovation has joined the BioInnovation Institute in Akron as its first president and chief executive officer. Douglas most recently served in three concurrent roles: Senior fellow at the Ewing M. Kauffman Foundation, senior partner at Puretech Ventures, and chief scientific adviser at Bayer Healthcare.
Dr. Gregg DiGiulio is leaving his position as chief of the pediatric emergency medicine at University Hospital's Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital to take the position in Akron.