Boston Children’s Hospital is acquiring Franciscan Children’s as part of a plan to respond to the soaring number of children who need mental health care. Leaders of both hospitals said they will expand mental health treatment, work together to recruit more staff — instead of competing for workforce — and upgrade rehabilitation facilities for children with complex medical conditions who need post-acute care.
The circumstances that led to the ill-fated merger of St. Margaret's and IVCH have been spelled out in a letter obtained by WLPO News. In a communication sent to state Rep. Lance Yednock this week, St. Margaret's Health CEO Tim Muntz says maintaining two inpatient hospitals approximately four-and-a-half miles apart was not economically sustainable or feasible.
On Wednesday, the Wilson N. Jones CEO, Julie Stumberg, announced American Healthcare Systems is the new buyer of the hospital. This is just over one month after Stumberg told News 12 there was a different new buyer, Integrated Care Technologies. It is not clear why that deal fell through.
Application to shutter Burdett Birth Center was quietly filed two days before law mandating review of impact on underserved communities went into effect.
Chris Gessner is only the 4th President and CEO of Akron Children’s Hospital since 1944. Since taking the job in October of 2021, being himself seems to be a great idea. He's held previous CEO roles at multiple hospitals, most recently at UC Health’s University of Colorado Hospital and before that, at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.