Mayo Clinic and Summa Health System are collaborating on a study on treating polycystic liver and kidney disease.The research will focus on Apatone, a drug from San Diego-based IC-MedTech that’s also being investigated for treating cancer and joint inflammation.As the name would suggest, polycystic liver and kidney disease is a disorder in which clusters of [...]

One of Northeast Ohio’s leading physician-entrepreneurs is leaving Cleveland Clinic to join Akron’s Summa Health System.Dr. Marc Penn will become director of research for the Summa Cardiovascular Institute and also a professor at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) in Rootstown, according to a statement from Summa. Penn will start with Summa next month. His five-person [...]

Northeast Ohio will be the “proving ground” for the new concept of accountable care organizations — a healthcare model designed to reduce costs and improve care coordination for Medicare patients — according to a recent report from research group HealthLeaders-InterStudy.With at least three local health systems expected to establish accountable care organizations (ACOs), Northeast Ohio [...]

The Ohio State University Medical Center has hired Summa Health System’s chief financial officer to fill the same role. C. Michael Rutherford will be responsible for the fiscal management of the center’s clinical operations and business enterprises.

Summa Health System has opened a 3,800-square-foot center for clinical research trials on its main campus in Akron. The center will support investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored clinical trials. About 400 clinical trials are underway at the health system in areas such as women’s health, infectious disease and cardiology.

Medical data management company Explorys Inc. has added three Northeast Ohio hospital systems to its emerging member network that’s aimed at harnessing information from burgeoning electronic records to improve patient outcomes. MetroHealth System and University Hospitals in Cleveland, and Summa Health System in Akron, are joining Cleveland Clinic, the inaugural network member that helped launch Explorys last year.

Akron Children’s Hospital is finalizing a deal to own and operate the special-care nursery at Summa Health System’s Akron City Hospital.The boards from the two hospitals are expected to approve the deal in separate meetings Thursday. Once approved, Akron Children’s will take over the 21-bed unit for premature and critically [...]

Akron’s Summa Health System has made it official: Tom DeBord is president of Summa Barberton and Summa Wadsworth-Rittman hospitals. DeBord, 47, has been interim president of the hospitals in Summit and Medina counties since July 1.

After following his father to both the University of Notre Dame and The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Ian Gradisar’s journey seems to have come full circle with his position at Crystal Clinic.

Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health System is getting ready to open its first major outpatient facility in the region’s fastest growing county. Summa has teamed up with Medina County-area doctors to build a 100,000-square-foot outpatient center on state Route 18 in Medina County’s Medina and Montville townships. Medina County is attracting the attention of major health systems in Cleveland and Akron that are looking to draw patients from the growing area.