Updated 6:45 a.m., Feb. 18, 2010
WESTLAKE, Ohio – 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.
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St. John Medical Center, as the hospital now is called, also is getting some technology upgrades as part of an agreement struck by the two owners in January to invest $100 million over five years in the Westlake hospital.
“The ‘medical center’ name will better represent the depth and breadth of the services that we provide to our community and beyond,” said Cliff Coker, president of St. John Medical Center, in a joint University Hospitals/Sisters of Charity release.
At that time, University Hospitals took over sole management of St. John–it had been jointly managed with Sisters of Charity–and began aligning it with UH’s centers of excellence and institutes, such as UH Case Medical Center, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and UH Ireland Cancer Center.
As manager, UH is responsible for strategic planning and investment at St. John, with approval from the medical center’s joint venture board. Both owners support a vision to build the medical center as a premier health care provider on the West Side of Cleveland.
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At the same time, Sisters of Charity resumed its sole ownership of St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in Cleveland and Mercy Medical Center in Canton, which UH had jointly owned under joint venture agreements struck in 1999.
External and internal signs at the main St. John hospital and other facilities will begin to reflect its new identity. In addition, the medical center will introduce several technologies, including two digital mammography machines for breast cancer screening.