A Youngstown startup that set out to help businesses incorporate video into their communications has narrowed its focus on the patient education space. Two-year-old via680, formerly known as BizVeo, sells allows hospitals to create a customizable online portal that pull together video, documentation and user feedback to help patients prepare for upcoming hospital stays or procedures.

The $120 million sale of three-hospital system Forum Health to Franklin, Tennessee-based Community Health Systems Inc. (NYSE:CYH) is expected to close sometime today.

Forum Health’s $120 million sale to a for-profit Tennessee company appears to be nearly wrapped up now that Ohio’s attorney general has given his blessing to the deal.

Columbus-based skin biopsy device maker CleveX Inc. is seeking a $637,500 loan that it would use to purchase equipment and machinery to boost production capacity for its ExiClip line of devices. Youngstown-based Syncro Medical Innovations is looking for a $490,500 loan to protect intellectual property and acquire equipment and machinery.

Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray has promised to hold the for-profit health system that’s buying Forum Health in Youngstown accountable to its charity care commitments in the Youngstown area.

Forum Health will reimburse the U.S. government about $2.9 million as a result of a coding mix-up that led to the Youngstown health system overbilling some Medicare patients.Forum, which recently agreed to be sold for $120 million to a Tennessee-based health system, voluntarily disclosed the overbilling problem to the government, a U.S. attorney told the [...]

The Ohio Nurses Association has objected to selling Forum Health out of bankruptcy court to Community Health Systems in suburban Nashville, Tennessee — the 11th hour bidder that snatched the Youngstown, Ohio, health system from a privately owned hospital company last week. The nurses’ union objected to selling Forum Health to Community Health Systems because it violates work agreements between the union and Youngstown health system, according to the Youngstown Vindicator. The association filed its objection electronically with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Northern District of Ohio on Sunday, the newspaper reported.

Syncro Medical Innovations has raised $500,000 in debt to continue development of a feeding tube for critically ill patients, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The latest funding follows an $800,000 infusion of capital in May and another $500,000 last summer. Both of those also came in the form of debt.Syncro’s device, [...]

Akron Children’s Hospital is investing $7 million to bring outpatient surgery services to the Youngstown-Warren area.The pediatric hospital recently started construction and renovation of a 14,000-square-foot surgery department on the Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley campus in the Youngstown suburb of Boardman.When the unit opens in October, it will be [...]

Rumored for months, privately owned Nashville, Tenn. hospital company Ardent Health Services has won the bid for Forum Health, agreeing to pay $69.8 million to buy the Youngstown, Ohio, health system out of bankruptcy court.Ardent is buying Northside Medical Center, Trumbull Memorial Hospital, Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital, as well as Forum Health’s physician group, two diagnostic [...]