Dr. Cristy Page will officially begin the roles as UNC Health's CEO, the dean of the UNC School of Medicine and as vice chancellor for medical affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill on Monday. She was elected by the UNC Board of Governors following recent action by the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trusties and the UNC Health Board of Directors. Page was serving in the interim CEO role after Dr. Wesley Burks stepped down in April to focus on the development of North Carolina Children's Hospital and to spend more time tending to his family and their health needs. She had been serving as executive dean at the medical school from 2019 until earlier this year.
Pratt Regional Medical Center has asked Pratt County commissioners for financial assistance as the hospital struggles to stay afloat amid rising costs and limited borrowing capacity. The hospital presented three funding options to county commissioners earlier this month, according to CEO Tammy Smith. The options include a $15 million loan backed by the county, an $8 million donation with no expected payback, or an extension of current sales tax for bond repayment.
Rhode Islanders anxiously awaiting confirmation of a deal to save Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital from closing will have to keep waiting after a hearing in federal bankruptcy court in Dallas Tuesday morning. But time is running out. A cost-sharing agreement between Prospect Medical Holdings, the hospitals' bankrupt owner, and the state attorney general's office guaranteed funding for Roger Williams and Fatima to stay open through November — less than two weeks away. The parties are working to extend the funding split through December with the expectation a new buyer will take over, said Thomas Califano, an attorney with Sidley Austin LLP representing Prospect.
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.