The owner of Mercy Medical Center in Canton wants to help some of the estimated 4,000 independent Northeast Ohio doctors manage their practices without becoming hospital employees.The Sisters of Charity Health System recently launched Independent Physician Solutions (IPS), a for-profit subsidiary that offers electronic medical record adoption and other consulting services.The new venture will provide [...]

Sales for Philips Healthcare during the three months ended Sept. 30 were about $321 million higher than the $2.35 billion in global sales reported for Q3 2009.The Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG) division recorded $2.67 billion in third-quarter revenues, a 13.6 percent increase.Earnings before interest, taxes and amortization for the North Andover, Massachusetts-based [...]

Sisters of Charity Health System has hired a former United Healthcare executive as its new chief medical officer.Dr. Giesele Robinson Greene, a board-certified internist and geriatric specialist, takes over the role from Dr. Adnan Tahir, who is returning to Lebanon, according to a statement from Sisters of Charity. In the role, Greene’s responsibility will be [...]

Mercy Medical Center and Aultman Hospital have always battled for patients in the Canton area.Now the cross-town rivals are fighting in court for millions of dollars, as well as their reputations.Opening statements are expected to begin Wednesday morning in what has been deemed the largest civil case ever in Stark County [...]

Sisters of Charity Health System has created the new position of chief information officer and hired a woman who held the same role in an Erie, Pa., health system to fill it.Robin Stursa joined Sisters of Charity from Saint Vincent Health System, where she managed the system’s health information technology operations, according to a statement [...]

University Hospitals of Cleveland and Sisters of Charity Health System–50-50 owners of St. John West Shore Hospital–are renaming and rebranding the growing hospital to reflect the owners’ new operating agreement. St. John Medical Center, as the hospital now is called, is also getting two digital mammography machines.

Cleveland, meet St. Vincent Charity Medical Center. The medical center formerly known as St. Vincent Charity Hospital has changed its name and brand, now that it is fully owned (again) by the Sisters of Charity Health System, a change that occurred on Dec. 31, 2009.

The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron plans to award its first six research grants for $100,000 each by mid-February.

Sisters of Charity Health System and University Hospitals have completed a tentative restructuring, returning sole ownership of St. Vincent Charity Hospital and Mercy Medical Center to Sisters of Charity and putting University Hospitals in charge of St. John West Shore Hospital management.

An executive reorganization at Sisters of Charity Health System has put Cleveland’s St. Vincent Charity Hospital under greater control of the system’s chief executive officer and triggered the departure of the hospital’s president.