PRESIDENT/CEO
Paul C. Hiltz to president and chief executive of Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio. He was interim president and chief executive.
ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES
SSM Health of St. Louis has made these changes: Bob Pritts to president of SSM Health at Home & Post-Acute Services. Rick Redetzke to system vice president of facilities and real estate for SSM Health.
Gary Foster to chief operating officer of PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center of Vancouver, Wash.
GRANTS
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health has received a $7.8 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to build a 24-hour telemedicine behavioral health team as part of Avera eCARE. The team initially will focus on services for people in crisis. This will include providing virtual behavioral health assessments as well as treatment for patients in emergency departments and inpatient psychiatric hospitals. In time, Avera eCARE also will provide mobile support to first responders encountering individuals in crisis.
Southcentral Foundation has donated $3 million to Alaska CARES, Alaska's largest evaluation center for children experiencing physical and sexual abuse. Alaska CARES will use the funds to build a new treatment center and to provide the center with operational support. The facility is slated to open in April. Alaska CARES is a service of the Children's Hospital at Providence in Anchorage. Southcentral Foundation supports health and wellness services for Alaska Native and American Indian children and families.
NAME CHANGES
St. Louis' Ascension has announced the final phase of its national unified brand strategy, with four new health system markets adopting the unified name of Ascension. The new names are: Ascension Saint Agnes for facilities in Baltimore; Ascension St. Vincent for those in Indiana; Ascension St. John for those in Oklahoma; and Ascension Saint Thomas for those in Tennessee.
Lourdes of Paducah, Ky., now is called Mercy Health — Lourdes Hospital to reflect that it is part of Cincinnati-based Mercy Health. Mercy Health in turn is part of newly formed Bon Secours Mercy Health.
ANNIVERSARIES
Dignity Health — St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif., 95 years.
Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center, Yonkers, N.Y., 30 years.
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