The owner of Mercy Medical Center in Canton wants to help some of the estimated 4,000 independent Northeast Ohio doctors manage their practices without becoming hospital employees. The Sisters of Charity Health System recently launched Independent Physician Solutions (IPS), a for-profit subsidiary that offers electronic medical record adoption and other consulting services. The new venture […]
Sales for Philips Healthcare during the three months ended Sept. 30 were about $321 million higher than the $2.35 billion in global sales reported for Q3 2009. The Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG) division recorded $2.67 billion in third-quarter revenues, a 13.6 percent increase. Earnings before interest, taxes and amortization for the North Andover, Massachusetts-based division […]
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
Sisters of Charity Health System has hired a former United Healthcare executive as its new chief medical officer. Dr. Giesele Robinson Greene, a board-certified internist and geriatric specialist, takes over the role from Dr. Adnan Tahir, who is returning to Lebanon, according to a statement from Sisters of Charity. In the role, Greene’s responsibility will […]
Mercy Medical Center and Aultman Hospital have always battled for patients in the Canton area. Now the cross-town rivals are fighting in court for millions of dollars, as well as their reputations. Opening statements are expected to begin Wednesday morning in what has been deemed the largest civil case ever in Stark County Common Pleas […]
Sisters of Charity Health System has created the new position of chief information officer and hired a woman who held the same role in an Erie, Pa., health system to fill it. Robin Stursa joined Sisters of Charity from Saint Vincent Health System, where she managed the system’s health information technology operations, according to a […]
University Hospitals of Cleveland and Sisters of Charity Health System--50-50 owners of St. John West Shore Hospital--are renaming and rebranding the growing hospital to reflect the owners' new operating agreement. St. John Medical Center, as the hospital now is called, is also getting two digital mammography machines.
Cleveland, meet St. Vincent Charity Medical Center. The medical center formerly known as St. Vincent Charity Hospital has changed its name and brand, now that it is fully owned (again) by the Sisters of Charity Health System, a change that occurred on Dec. 31, 2009.
The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron plans to award its first six research grants for $100,000 each by mid-February.
Sisters of Charity Health System and University Hospitals have completed a tentative restructuring, returning sole ownership of St. Vincent Charity Hospital and Mercy Medical Center to Sisters of Charity and putting University Hospitals in charge of St. John West Shore Hospital management.
An executive reorganization at Sisters of Charity Health System has put Cleveland's St. Vincent Charity Hospital under greater control of the system's chief executive officer and triggered the departure of the hospital's president.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Altogether, there are easily $50 million in health-related federal earmarks from Ohio legislators that could fund projects from the James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University to a Youngstown company whose device is ideal for victims of battlefield trauma. Votes in Senate and House committees are expected this month to determine whether the institutions would get some, all or any of their requests.
Sisters of Charity Health System has named Vanguard Health System executive Orlando L. Alvarez Jr. to its new position of senior vice president of physician strategy and business development. He will focus primarily on "physician collaboration strategies" and work on the big-picture effort to connect the health system's five hospitals.
St. Vincent Charity Hospital has spent the last year on a focused, narrow experiment to foster the concept of a medical home. Early results show the promise, but the project also highlights the challenges of making a medical home. Medical residents are considered a detriment, and much of the up-front effort required to create a medical home are expensive -- so much so that St. Vincent's may simply take the best parts of its experiment and give up on receiving accreditation as a full medical home.
A recent media report shows Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and Sisters of Charity Health System spent just over 2 percent of their revenue on the provision of charity care in 2007. Dr. Jeffery Parks says that "in this era of federal bailouts and car company executives being fired by our president," shouldn't non-profit hospitals spend more than 2 percent toward charity care?
Major Cleveland hospitals use about 2 percent of their revenue to provide free patient care and about 8 percent on total "community benefit" items such as grant-giving and research, according to an analysis in today's Plain Dealer.
