The University of Cincinnati, Jewish Health System, and Fort Hamilton Hospital and Healthcare Corp. have hammered out an agreement that completes the long-anticipated acquisition of Jewish Hospital by Mercy Health Partners, and leaves the university the sole member of the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati.Jewish Hospital and Mercy Health, both based in Cincinnati, had hoped [...]

Cardiac, Vascular and Thoracic Surgeons, also known as CVTS, joins the collaborative formalized one month ago between the university, Cincinnati’s University Hospital and the University of Cincinnati Physicians. The partnership thinks it will be able to provide better health care in the Cincinnati area and draw patients who would have left the region for specialized care.

The UC Health name provides a little more direction and a formal title for a collaboration that’s already going on between the three groups. But the partnership is also perfectly — if inadvertantly — timed to react to the changes at the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, which began losing members last year and will continue to dissolve in the coming months.