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Health system and physicians will work together to improve care; Trinity Health and Blues will share savings under value-based reimbursement model DETROIT, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trinity Health-Michigan and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan are implementing a first of its kind reimbursement arrangement that moves hospitals away from traditional fee-for-service payments. The focus of the new reimbursement model is on better hospital-specific efficiency and better population...
New Voalte iPhone to Improve Communication Between Clinicians and Nurses Pontiac, MI (PRWEB) March 12, 2013 St. Joseph Mercy Oakland (SJMO) is the first hospital in Michigan to adopt Voalte’s latest generation iPhone to improve clinical communication at the point of care. Voalte is the leader in clinical communications technology. The iPhones, which will be used by nurses and clinicians, utilize Voalte’s versatile platform which combines high definition voice call, alarms and text...
Trinity Health announced today that 60 of its system leaders visited Capitol Hill this week to bring to Congress their collective concerns about the economic issues and business challenges threatening the nation’s evolving health system. The legislative visit to Washington, D.C., was an opportunity for lawmakers to talk with community hospital leaders from Trinity Health's ten states about progress toward achieving a stronger health care system and about the effect of sequestration...
LIVONIA, Mich., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Trinity Health announced today that President and Chief Executive Officer Joseph R. Swedish will leave the organization next month to become the CEO of WellPoint in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the Trinity Health Board of Directors named Board member Larry Warren to be interim CEO. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130212/DC59235) Swedish is working with the Trinity Health Board and the executive team to ensure a...
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. and NOVI, Mich., Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The boards and sponsors of Catholic Health East (CHE) and Trinity Health, two leading Catholic health systems, announced today they signed a non-binding Letter of Intent to come together into a unified national health system that will enhance their mission of service to people and communities across the United States. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121017/DC94414LOGO) The boards also...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Van Andel Institute (VAI) and two West Michigan hospitals within the national Trinity Health system and members of Mercy Health - Saint Mary's Health Care and Mercy Health Partners - have signed agreements paving the way for the expansion of a world-class biorepository utilizing the infrastructure of the VAI Program for Biospecimen Science. Biorepositories store tissue and biospecimens, along with health data donated by patients....
Tenth largest healthcare system in the United States will implement RL6:Risk throughout its facilities TORONTO, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - RL Solutions, developers of innovative and easy-to-use healthcare quality and safety software, announced today that Trinity Health Corporation has selected RL6:Risk to enhance patient safety and track, manage, and analyze incidents. Trinity Health is the tenth largest healthcare system in the United States, with a ten-state network of 49...
"Think Detroit. Think Medical." to leverage health science assets, national influence of health care leaders to attract medical industry meetings to region, strengthen economy DETROIT, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau (DMCVB) today announced the launch of Think Detroit. Think Medical., a collaborative effort of area health care leaders to bring medical-related meetings to Detroit and contribute to the state's economic...
Better-than-expected FY12 results and continued growth for FY13 reported to U-M Board of Regents ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The books will soon close on the University of Michigan's 2012 fiscal year, with financial results for the U-M Hospitals & Health Centers (UMHHC) projected to exceed original plans. As the new fiscal year begins, the outlook calls for continued growth in the number of patients U-M serves -- made possible by recent capacity...
Trinity Health and the Catholic Health Association (CHA) announced today that Trinity Health President and Chief Executive Officer Joseph R. Swedish has been installed as Chairperson of the CHA board of trustees for fiscal year 2012-13. The installation of Swedish was part of “Leadership for Healing,” the 2012 Catholic Health Assembly concluding today in Philadelphia, Penn. Novi, Mich. (PRWEB) June 05, 2012 Trinity Health and the Catholic Health Association (CHA) announced today that...
