CLEVELAND, Ohio — Sisters of Charity Health System has named an executive from Vanguard Health System to its new position of senior vice president of physician strategy and business development.
Orlando L. Alvarez Jr. started Thursday and 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 and St. John West Shore in the Cleveland area; Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio; and Providence Hospital and Providence Hospital Northeast in Columbia, South Carolina.
But it’s also an opportune time for a business development position in Cleveland, in particular. There’s continued, intensifying discussions about how to get downtown health resources — St. Vincent Charity Hospital, Cuyahoga Community College and Cleveland State University — to work with the institutions in Cleveland’s east-side University Circle neighborhood: Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals. It’s not yet clear what role Alvarez would play in those discussion, though.
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“How do we as an organization take our assets, be they relational, financial or physical, and leverage them into one clear strategic direction?” Alvarez stated in a press release. “And how do we do that with key strategic partners–our physicians? My focus will be on building the infrastructure necessary to support these relationships and linkages.”
Alvarez previously worked in Phoenix, Arizona, as a regional vice president for business development at Vanguard, where he lead Abrazo Health Care: a system that included five acute care hospitals, five imaging centers and a multi-physician medical group. He also spent nine years as vice president of marketing and development for Mercy Health System in Coconut Grove, Fla.