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Sikh Association and Adventist Health Bakersfield Partner for Cancer Screening at Sikh Temple

4 July 2018 | Adventist Health Bakersfield is joining forces with Bakersfield Sikh Women’s Association for a preventative cancer screening. The Kaur Care Women’s Health Preventative Cancer Screening program will feature free breast exams and will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Sunday, July 8, at Gurdwara Guru Dashmesh Darbar, a Sikh place of worship in Bakersfield, California.

This is the first in a series of screenings that will be hosted by Kaur Care. It is named after Gurbinder Kaur, a mother who passed away from cervical cancer this year at the age of 43.

According to the Bakersfield Californian, Kaur’s cancer could have been detected early if she had received a routine pap smear.

An Adventist Health press release said that discussion of health issues is often avoided in the Sikh community. The program seeks to raise awareness in the community of the need for routine cancer screenings to improve early cancer detection.

Adventist Health Bakersfield, previously San Joaquin Community Hospital, is a 254–bed facility in Bakersfield, California which serves Kern County. Adventist Health runs 20 hospitals and over 280 clinics on the West Coast and in Hawaii. It also operates home care and hospice agencies. According to the Sacramento Business Journal, it is the third-largest private company in the Sacramento region with $3.95 billion in 2016 revenue. The system is affiliated with the Adventist Church.

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Adventist Health and St. Joseph Health announce new joint operation company

By: Curtis Driscoll cdriscoll@willitsnews.com

POSTED: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 - 12:01 a.m.
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Adventist Health and St. Joseph Health have announced they will be forming a new joint operating company that will expand health care access in Mendocino, Humboldt, Lake, Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties.

Under the joint operating company, Adventist Health and St. Joseph Health would integrate clinical activities and services, while both would keep their existing hospital names, licenses, capital assets and employees, balance sheets and assets.

"Adventist Health and St. Joseph Health believe this is the right thing to do for the communities we serve," said Jeff Eller, Adventist Health president of the Northern California region. "Patients will benefit from more access points, better health outcomes, and controlled costs by coordinating their care across the spectrum of their health needs."

Eller said the agreement would improve quality and services to smaller communities in the Northern California region, like Willits, by partnering with other hospitals along the Highway 101 corridor.

Rather than having individual hospitals trying to manage alone, the health organizations hope that the strengths of having a more extensive organization gives them access to more sophisticated services regionally and keeps more patients closer to home than having to go to the Bay Area or beyond.

Avista Adventist Hospital hires new CEO from Florida

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Centura Health officials have appointed someone they consider a rising star in the Adventist Health System as the new CEO of Avista Adventist Hospital in Louisville.

Jillyan McKinney, who has been the vice president of strategic business development for the Lake Nona and Sunbridge communities while at Florida Hospital in Orlando, will begin her new role on Nov. 20. She replaces Dennis Barts, who retired in August.

McKinney grew a reputation for aligning physicians better with the hospital and for improving overall health and well-being in her community, said officials at Centura, which is co-owned by Adventist and Catholic Health Initiatives. She initiated several major expansion projects there and facilitated jumps in both patient volume and profitability.

“McKinney has an infectious amount of energy,” said Edward Sim, president of Centura Health’s Mountains and North Denver Operating Group.

McKinney said in an announcement that she and her family “can’t wait to call this incredible community home.”

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Centura Health is a non-profit, faith-based health care system based in Englewood, Colorado which was formed in 1996 as a joint operating agreement between Catholic Health Initiatives and Adventist Health System.[1][2][3] The system expanded its operations into Kansas in 2011.

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Adventist Health Transfers 110 Years of Walla Walla Hospital Care to Sisters of Providence

April 3, 2017

Stunned physicians, nurses, and staff of the 72-bed acute care Seventh-day Adventist Walla Walla General Hospital in Walla Walla, Washington, were notified at 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. meetings on Monday that their parent organization, Adventist Health, had agreed to transfer their hospital and clinics to the control of the Roman Catholic Providence St. Mary’s Medical Center. Employees were notified that as of July 1, 2017, they would be employed by Providence St. Mary’s Medical Center.

This decision was made by executives in Adventist Health and the Sisters of Providence Health System. Local physicians, providers, and staff said they not been consulted about the decision. Hospital board members were informed of the decision at 7 a.m., and some hospital executives were called at home at 5 a.m. on the day of the announcement, making it clear that this was not a local decision.

Joyce Newmyer, Adventist Health CEO for the Pacific Northwest, used the carefully chosen words that this was “not a sale, but a transfer of control.” She described the change as a “sponsorship or membership substitution.” For the past 110 years, Walla Walla General Hospital (WWGH) has been an Adventist health care institution. In two months time they will join the Sisters of Providence Health System, a Catholic organization.

Concerned watchers speculate that the approximately $60 million indebtedness carried by WWGH was the true cost involved in turning it over to the Providence system. A significant portion of that debt came from a massive cosmetic renovation to the hospital completed in 2013, with new lobbies, dining room and executive offices at an estimated cost of $16 to $18 million. Other indebtedness came from experiments in health care delivery during the 1990’s, when an attempt at managed care led to losses. The Blue Mountain Medical group was purchased by WWGH, then dropped, after which a physician group reinvested in it to make it again profitable. After a coveted Rural Health Clinic Status contributed to the clinic’s financial viability, WWGH again purchased the clinic, which was renamed the Adventist Health Medical Group. This group has shown profitability with outpatient care, though inpatient costs have continued to prevent financial gains.

Providence Health Care chief executive Elaine Couture noted that there would be $14 million under control of St. Mary’s Medical Center available over the next 24 years “to advance Adventist Health’s mission” in the valley. The conditions of use of this $583,333 a year were not made clear at this time. Nor is the fate of Adventist Health employees who may face reassignments or loss of positions in the merger of the two hospitals.

Long tenured Adventist physicians in Walla Walla had suggested turning the hospital into a day surgery center and developing a strong outpatient program as a future for Adventist medical work in Walla Walla. No one that Adventist Today talked to anticipated that executives from AHS would simply give the hospital and clinics to St Mary’s Medical Center, which for a century has been a religious and medical competitor in providing health care to the residents of Walla Walla and surrounding areas.

Some observers have noted that the high quality of care at both institutions is due to the fact that until now patients had a choice of where to go for care. While this did lead to duplication of services, quality of care was considered excellent for a town of Walla Walla’s size. The town and surrounding county has a population of about 59,000.

What happens with both hospitals and large medical groups under one system is a question a regulator must now evaluate. Some have expressed their feelings that the way this decision was made demonstrates what happens when changes are made by people not directly involved in the communities impacted. It is also true that considerable change is occurring throughout health care systems in the United States.

The Catholic and Adventist faiths are the two largest religions in Walla Walla with roughly equal numbers. Each constitute about 11 percent of the population, with the Adventists being slightly larger than the Catholics in number, according to the United States Census of Religion. For the Adventist faith to be the largest religion in a city is very unusual. Walla Walla may be the largest such community in North America.

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Florida Hospital Carrollwood Celebrates "Topping Out" of Construction Project

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Hospital's major expansion project hits important goal in three-year timeline.
5/24/2016 | By Jennifer McVan

Florida Hospital Carrollwood met an important milestone in the hospital's three-year, $71 million expansion and renovation project with the celebration of the project's "Topping Out" today.

An event based in Scandinavian tradition, the "topping out" or "topping off" of a construction project celebrates placing the last beam in place on the structure. In keeping with honored tradition, the hospital and construction team from Robins & Morton said a blessing over the designated beam signed by all those in attendance, and hoisted it high in the air – joined by a spruce tree and a large, American flag.

"We are very proud of achieving this important milestone," said Joe Johnson, Florida Hospital Carrollwood President & CEO. "Countless hands and thousands of hours have gotten us to this exciting point in our construction project, and from here the successful completion is well within our sights."

When the hospital's expansion and renovation project is completed in 2017, close to 100,000 square feet of space will be affected – including 55,245 square feet of new construction space and 61,621 square feet of renovated space.

"It is an honor for us to be part of a project that will so positively impact our community," said Todd Watson, senior project manager for Robins & Morton.

Enhancements will include 11 new, state-of-the-art operating rooms, including the addition of a twelfth operating suite. Also part of the new construction space will be two interventional radiology/cath labs, along with infrastructure enhancements such as the addition of a new loading dock for the materials management department.

The hospital also recently opened a new surgical patient care unit in January of this year on the facility's fourth floor – part of the renovation focus of the project.

"When we open the doors to our new addition next year we will be even more prepared to care for the rapidly growing needs of our community," said Johnson. "Not only will we have more space, we will have the latest technology and ease of access for the Tampa Bay neighbors we serve."


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St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates opened a new outpatient pavilion in 2008.

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Alexian Brothers Health System, which has five hospitals in Elk Grove Village and Hoffman Estates, and Adventist Midwest Health, which has four suburban hospitals, have signed a letter of intent to form a partnership.

Both health care company CEOs said Tuesday that under their nonbinding agreement, each company will maintain control of its assets, identities and different religious priorities. Alexian is Roman Catholic, and Adventist is affiliated with the Seventh-Day Adventist faith.

The partnership will allow the hospital organizations to pool resources, share one another's best practices, and have one parent organization to make services more efficient, extensive, and cost-effective, the CEOs said. That cost savings will eventually be passed on to patients, said Mark A. Frey, president and CEO of Alexian Brothers Health System.

"We do intend, over time, to lower the cost structure of both of our organizations. That's always a good news story, not only for our patients and their families, but the insurance industry who has to pay for those services," Frey said.

The agreement will bring together more than 3,000 physicians to offer better coordinated, more comprehensive care for patients in the Chicago area, the organizations said in an announcement Tuesday.

The agreement, as it stands now, is a nonbinding letter of intent to form a joint operating company. Alexian Brothers, based in Arlington Heights, and Adventist, based in Hinsdale, plan to have a definitive agreement in place by July. After that, they'll seek permission for their joint operating company from the state's Health Facilities Planning Board. The plan is to have this done by Jan. 1, 2015.

Although the new federal health care law "may have precipitated some of this dialogue ... this is so much more about us meeting the needs of our patients," said David L. Crane, president and CEO of Adventist Midwest Health. "When we have a partnership like this, we can take advantage of economies at the overhead level and deliver it in as an efficient of a manner as we can."

Tuesday's announcement was the latest in a series of partnerships and mergers of suburban hospitals. In March, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare announced plans to merge with Cadence, corporate parent to Central DuPage and Delnor hospitals.

Alexian Brothers Health System operates five Northwest suburban hospitals -- Alexian Brothers Medical Center and Alexian Brothers Rehabilitation Hospital in Elk Grove Village and St. Alexius Medical Center, Alexian Brothers Women's and Children's Hospital and Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Center in Hoffman Estates.

Adventist Midwest Health includes four suburban hospitals: Adventist Bolingbrook, Adventist GlenOaks in Glendale Heights, Adventist Hinsdale and Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital.

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