Ascension Health news and information

If HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was calling health execs seeking donations, she didn't ask some of the largest not-for-profit hospital systems or their national trade group. She didn't need to.
FULL STORY »

Editor's note: Following is an edited excerpt of the transcript for Modern Healthcare's May 6 editorial webinar, “Building the continuum of care: Now that you own it, how best to weave it into your operation.” The panelists were David Grabowski, professor of health policy at Harvard...
FULL STORY »

Ascension Health, St. Louis, promoted Patricia Maryland to president of healthcare operations and COO, effective July 1. Maryland, 59, is the Michigan ministry market leader for Ascension Health and president and CEO of St. John Providence Health System in Detroit. In her new role, Maryland...
FULL STORY »

Ascension Health, St. Louis, has promoted Patricia Maryland to president of healthcare operations and COO.
FULL STORY »

Seton Healthcare Family, an Austin, Texas-based division of Ascension Health, named Jesus Garza CEO, effective July 1. Garza, 60, will also start providing oversight of Ascension's Arizona ministry, Carondelet Health Network, and continue serving as the ministry market leader for Ascension...
FULL STORY »

A new group that includes a health insurance trade association, a major health system and consumer advocacy and business organizations, is offering five recommendations that they say will improve the quality of healthcare delivered while cutting costs.
FULL STORY »

Ascension Health, St. Louis, has completed its deal to acquire Marian Health System, the Tulsa, Okla.-based provider with three regional divisions.
FULL STORY »

One of the last HIMSS speakers began by telling the audience he may be causing problems for them in the near future.
FULL STORY »

LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif.—Ascension Health made a move into California with an affiliation agreement with six-hospital Daughters of Charity Health System, Los Altos Hills. The deal gives Ascension, St. Louis, its first presence in the Golden State. Terms of the agreement between the two...
FULL STORY »

The encouraging results of a 14-hospital childbirth safety initiative are a reminder of the nation's notoriously high infant mortality rate and high rate of adverse events in the delivery room. They also shed light on how some simple interventions can be highly effective, but that institutions can...
FULL STORY »