The head of Summa Health System’s Barberton and Wadsworth-Rittman hospitals is leaving for another job opportunity in northwestern Ohio. Jim Pope recently accepted a job as president and chief executive of Franciscan Health System, based in the Toledo suburb of Sylvania. In his new post, Pope will oversee a Catholic health system that owns seven […]
Akron General Health System is acquiring a cancer treatment center from the region’s largest urology practice. The health system announced on Wednesday that it is buying Physicians Urology’s outpatient prostate cancer treatment center on West Exchange Street near the hospital campus, effective Aug. 1. Under the deal, Akron General will contract with the 12-physician practice […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
An Akron doctor is exploring why American women who beat endometrial cancer still are at risk of premature death from other health problems. The likely reason: Few endometrial cancer survivors eat a balanced diet, quit smoking and get enough exercise, according to new research by Dr. Vivian von Gruenigen, department chair of obstetrics and gynecology […]
University Hospitals and Summa Health System in Ohio, and Fairview Health Services in Minnesota are among 19 members of an accountable care organization collaborative launched today by healthcare alliance Premier Inc. The “implementation” collaborative to which these hospitals belong is one of two being started by Premier, a hospital-owned company in Charlotte, North Carolina, that […]
Four Northeast Ohio institutions have received a four-year, $2.7 million federal grant to study cognitive impairment in heart failure patients. The study’s goal is to understand why heart failure patients often have trouble managing their complex medical regimen, according to a statement from Kent State University. The other collaborating institutions on the project are the […]
Fitch Ratings has lowered its long-term view on the debt of Summa Health System because of its “increasing debt burden coupled with a slower-than-anticipated improvement in operating performance and liquidity position.” Fitch assigned its BBB+ rating to $175 million of fixed-rate hospital facilities revenue bonds to be issued on behalf of the Akron, Ohio-based system […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Updated 5:10 p.m. A proposed Ohio law would prohibit employers from refusing to hire people who smoke tobacco. House Bill 470 would fine employers who violate its terms $25,000 on the first offense, $50,000 on the second and $100,000 for each subsequent violation. Rep. Stephen Dyer, a Democrat from Green and former Akron Beacon-Journal reporter, […]
Whether they’re for the historic health-reform bill or against it, local health-care and business leaders agree big changes likely are coming as a result. Some portions of the legislation could go into effect in as soon as three months, while others will take until 2019 to be fully implemented. While many of the details still […]
Diana Tirpak considers herself a living example of the greatest recycling program on the planet. Two years ago, her life was saved by something most hospitals treat as trash — the umbilical cord blood from a newborn. A baby’s cord blood is rich with stem cells, which increasingly are being used to cure cancer and […]
Summa Health System this morning announced plans to expand three of its hospital emergency departments and build two new full-service, stand-alone emergency rooms in the region. The new free-standing, 24-hour emergency departments will be built in Green, where the health system already has a Summa Health Center outpatient facility; and in Medina County, where the […]
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Summa Akron City Hospital is expanding its emergency department to handle an increasing number of ill and injured patients. The Akron City Planning Commission is reviewing site plans on Friday for a proposed two-story, 84,000-square-foot addition to the north of the existing emergency room. The project will increase the ER size from 43 beds to […]
US Endoscopy, the endoscopy device design and manufacturing company in Mentor, has released the Entrada colonic overtube, which offers more control during colonoscopy in patients with tortuous sigmoid looping.
BioEnterprise Inc., the bioscience venture developer in Northeast Ohio, has formalized a partnership with Team NEO to woo new medical imaging, neurostimulation, cardiovascular device and orthopedic companies to the region. Both nonprofits work in Northeast Ohio and sometimes they bump against each other or duplicate efforts, said Annette Ballou, director of strategic marketing and communications for BioEnterprise. So the two organizations developed a […]
The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron has made its first round of research and development grants: $680 million to eight projects ranging from a contact lens embedded with a sensor that measures blood glucose levels to a polymer platform for drug-eluting prosthetic devices.
Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University dental researcher Ge Jin has found a protein switch that turns on the spread of cancer -- the process that often leads to fatal breast, ovarian, pancreatic and colon-rectal cancers.