Latest Christiana Care Health System Stories
WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Christiana Care Health System has partnered with ColdLight and Medecision to provide more coordinated personalized care to patients with chronic heart disease with breakthrough analytics technology. Christiana Care Health System has partnered with ColdLight Solutions, LLC and Medecision, Inc. in order to provide more coordinated care and greater value to patients with chronic heart disease. The services of both companies will be...
WILMINGTON, Del., Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thomas Lee Bauer, M.D., chief of Thoracic Surgery at Christiana Care Health System, has been elected the 2013 president of the oldest surgical society in the United States, the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130128/DC49450) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090407/DC95299LOGO) "It is truly an honor to be a member and now to serve as the president of such a...
WILMINGTON, Del., Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Randy Gaboriault, vice president and chief information officer at Christiana Care Health System, has been recognized by IDG's Computerworld Magazine as a 2013 Premier 100 IT Leader honoree. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130128/DC49452) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090407/DC95299LOGO) "Under Randy's leadership, Christiana Care has been able to unlock the strategic value of IT in ways that set new...
WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Diana Dickson-Witmer, M.D., FACS, has been named medical director of the Christiana Care Breast Center at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center. She takes over for Emily Penman, M.D., who is taking on additional responsibilities at Christiana Care's Department of Surgery. Dr. Dickson-Witmer previously served as the associate medical director of the Breast Center. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121210/DC26305)...
Brain Injury program earns accreditation for first time WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Christiana Care Health System's Center for Rehabilitation at Wilmington Hospital has achieved certification from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) for its Brain Injury, Amputation and Stroke programs and for Comprehensive Adult Inpatient care. The certification is for the three-year period, June 2012-2015. (Logo:...
WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A research team at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center at Christiana Care Health System and the Center for Translational Cancer Research performs a key role in a prestigious National Institutes of Health research project grant of $2.5 million to continue groundbreaking work into the creation of artificial salivary glands. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090407/DC95299LOGO) Robert Witt, M.D., chief of the...
WILMINGTON, Del., July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Christiana Care Health System has been named a recipient of a 2012 CIO 100 Award from IDG's CIO magazine for a two-part, break-through communication management and workflow solution, changing the way care is coordinated at one of the busiest emergency departments in the nation. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120725/DC46457) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090407/DC95299LOGO) The annual award...
WILMINGTON, Del., June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Christiana Care Health System's innovative, combined Emergency Medicine/Family Medicine (EM/FM) allopathic residency program, the first of its kind in the nation, salutes its first graduate this year. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120621/DC26564) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090407/DC95299LOGO) Blake Gustafson, M.D., chief EM-FM resident in 2007 joined the five-year, dual-certification program,...
Medical Intensive Care Unit Redesignated with Prestigious Award WILMINGTON, Del., June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Christiana Care Health System is the recipient of the Silver Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the largest specialty nursing organization in the world. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090407/DC95299LOGO) Christiana Care's is one of only 40 hospitals nationwide and the only hospital...
NEWARK, Del., June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, selected Christiana Care Health System's Helen F. Graham Cancer Center to continue participation in its national network of community cancer centers. A member of the NCI Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP) since 2007, the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center was awarded an estimated $815,497 to fund participation in the NCCCP network for the program's...
