Samaritan Health CEO Marty Cahill kicked off a series of town halls, focusing on Samaritan’s planned merger with Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare health system, on Wednesday evening, Nov. 12, at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital. Speaking to about 100 people in the hospital conference room, Cahill explained reasons behind the merger and provided an overview of MultiCare and its interest in joining with Samaritan.
Trustees of the financiallys truggling Maimonides Hospital, located in heavily orthodox Jewish south Brooklyn, filed a lawsuit early this week to stop a government takeover of the 80-year-old medical facility. Maimonides' leadership plans to merge with the city's public hospital system — Health + Hospitals — converting the private, independent hospital into a city-run facility overseen by a board and president/CEO appointed by the mayor. A part of the merger, Maimonides would receive a desperately needed $2.2 billion over five years through a state grant, according to a spokesperson for the cash-strapped hospital.
Sutter Health announced plans on Monday for a new flagship medical center in Santa Clara, part of a multibillion-dollar investment to expand healthcare access in Silicon Valley. The centerpiece of the $2.8 billion dual-campus plan is an eight-story medical center to be built on a 13.63-acre site near Levi's Stadium. Sutter Health President and CEO Warner Thomas called the facility the 'digital hospital of the future.'
Planned service cuts and layoffs at Pottstown Hospital have nurses and staff members concerned that it's the precursor to something worse. Now, they're trying to rally support and stop the cutbacks. Tower Health, which purchased Pottstown Hospital in 2017, is closing the hospital's intensive care center, cancer center, and endoscopy outpatient center. It's also laying off more than 131 workers at the hospital.
Heights University Hospital, the struggling acute-care facility in Jersey City, said Nov. 14 it will close immediately after executives at hospital parent Hudson Regional Hospital said they were turned down by the state a day earlier to get $25 million to continue operating. Departments at the hospital including the neighborhood clinic, preoperative services, endoscopy, pre-admission, ambulatory surgery, the operating room and the dialysis unit will be reduced or eliminated and what remains will operate as a standalone emergency department. About 120 jobs will be cut at the former Christ Hospital, which was founded in 1872.
Five South Florida hospitals and the Leapfrog Group are separately asking a Palm Beach County judge to resolve a legal dispute over the nonprofit's hospital safety grades without a trial. Over the past three weeks, each side has filed motions for summary judgment, presenting arguments to convince the court to rule in its favor.