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UK HealthCare and Norton Healthcare have formalized the collaboration they announced almost a year and a half ago and will "focus on creating collaborations with hospitals across the state in stroke, cardiovascular and cancer care," Dr. Michael Karpf, executive vice president for health affairs at the University of Kentucky, announced today.
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Norton and UK HealthCare formalize the collaboration they announced almost a year and a half ago
UK HealthCare and Norton Healthcare have formalized the collaboration they announced almost a year and a half ago and will "focus on creating collaborations with hospitals across the state in stroke, cardiovascular and cancer care," Dr. Michael Karpf, executive vice president for health affairs at the University of Kentucky, announced today.Said Steve Williams, president and CEO of Norton: "Our intent is to bring our combined health care expertise and resources into communities across the commonwealth to improve health-care outcomes."
The partnership will be in the form of a non-profit organization. The board of the Norton-UK HealthCare Partnership for Quality has already approved a budget of $595,000 to grow stroke outreach and education and launch programs to fight heart attacks and cancer, a press release says.
In late 2010, the two systems joined forces to create a statewide collaboration that addresses Kentucky's major health issues, including cancer, stroke and heart disease that stem from high obesity and smoking rates. Some of the accomplishments since the agreement include a transplant program, an effort to increase the number of obstetricians statewide; pharmacy education; and cancer care.
A competing collaboration, between the University of Louisville, Jewish Hospital and the Lexington-based St. Joseph Health System, is again trying to formalize its arrangement following rejection of a merger by state officials on grounds that University Hospital was a public institution that could not be bound by the Catholic system's restrictions on reproductive care.
A competing collaboration, between the University of Louisville, Jewish Hospital and the Lexington-based St. Joseph Health System, is again trying to formalize its arrangement following rejection of a merger by state officials on grounds that University Hospital was a public institution that could not be bound by the Catholic system's restrictions on reproductive care.
- Uk's Gill Heart Institute Joins Appalachian Regional Healthcare To Advance Specialty Heart Care In Eastern Kentucky
Appalachian Regional Healthcare, the Appalachian Heart Center and UK HealthCare?s Gill Heart Institute announced a new collaboration to deliver cardiovascular care to Eastern Kentuckians, which will extend the UK's sub-specialty care footprint...
- St. Joseph Health System Announces Merger With Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's Healthcare
Rebuffed in its bid to take over Louisville's University Hospital, Catholic Health Initatives announced today that its St. Joseph Health System had merged with Jewish Hospital & St. Mary?s HealthCare, effective retroactively to Jan. 1. Gov....
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Attorney General Jack Conway may have ruled it a public entity and thus subject to open-records laws, but University Hospital officials are insisting that's not the case and have filed a lawsuit saying it should not have to turn over documents...
- The Courier-journal, Continuing To Explore Louisville Hospital Merger, Says Many More Questions Still Need Answering
The proposed merger of the University of Louisville hospital with Jewish Hospital & St. Mary?s Healthcare and with St. Joseph Health System of Lexington, which follows the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, continues to draw heavy attention from...
- The Urge To Merge Hospitals Is Driven By Health Care Reform
Mergers that are creating large hospital groups in Kentucky are part of a national trend being driven in part by last year's health-care reform law. There are three key reasons for this, according to Barton Walker, a North Carolina attorney with McGuireWoods,...