News and notes from the day in MedCity, Ohio:
Dublin drug distributor Cardinal Health will lay off another 12 employees at its Indianapolis distribution center, bringing the total to 49 since a workforce reduction was initiated in late November, according to the Indianapolis Star.
Meanwhile, six months after being named CEO, George Barrett is being hailed as the leader Cardinal needed to restore its vigor, according to Time magazine/CNN.
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MetroHealth System in Cleveland has hired John R. Corlett, who left his post as Ohio Medicaid director in August, to the new position of vice president of Government Relations and Community Affairs, according to a press release.
A consolidation feasibility study group is expected to decide at a Tuesday meeting whether to recommend that the Akron and Summit County health departments merge, according to the Akron Beacon Journal.
As a college student in 1988, Michele Reali-Sorrell, a nurse in the emergency department at the Cleveland Clinic’s Huron Hospital, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, a form of cancer. “I had surgery followed by eight weeks of radiation treatment. The nurses who took care of me changed my life forever,” Reali-Sorrell wrote in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
