INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis doctor who provided abortion drugs to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio defended her actions before a judge Monday in an episode that drew national attention in the weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Ascension Health announced it would close St. Vincent Dunn Hospital in Bedford, IN, only days after posting a fiscal year, system-wide loss of $1.8 billion that came largely as a result of investment losses that exceeded $1 billion.
When I started in the finance department of St. Joseph's Hospital in 1993, our four-county region boasted a population of just 2.5 million; four years later, when St. Joseph's was among the not-for-profit hospitals that formed BayCare Health System, it was 2.6 million. Now, as I retire as chief executive officer of BayCare, 3.8 million people call Hillsborough, Pinellas, Polk, and Pasco counties home.
The new combined system, which will be named at a later point, will include Butler Memorial Hospital, Excela Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, Excela Latrobe Hospital, Excela Frick Hospital, and Clarion Hospital.
The person in charge of the Hutchinson Regional Medical Center and Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System (HRHS) has resigned. Ken Johnson was the president and chief executive officer for seven years. Before that, he was the hospital's chief operating officer and chief financial officer. A spokesperson for HRHS says Nick Baldetti, the chief quality officer, will be the acting CEO while a nationwide search begins for a new leader.