[Source: dartmouth.theweektoday.com] Southcoast Health announced today that it has opened a Rapid Assessment Zone (RAZ) in the emergency department at St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford.
The $3.8 million project will help emergency department staff to provide more timely and effective care to all patients – from infants and young children to the critically injured and those suffering behavioral health problems.
Read More[Source: capecod.com] NEW BEDFORD – The President and CEO of Southcoast Health is speaking out after Republicans in Washington, D.C. recently passed a new health care bill.
Keith Hovan said that the healthcare company, which operates Tobey Hospital in Wareham, shares the strong concerns that have been expressed by Congressman Bill Keating and Governor Charlie Baker.
Read More[Source: convergenceri.com] Call it the newest skirmish line in the health care wars, being fought amidst the big box stores: on April 27, Southcoast Health cut the ribbon at its urgent care center in the shopping center plaza at 39 Commerce Way.
It is the latest chessboard move in the battle between health systems competing for customers and market share – and for financial survival in a world where the old business model for hospitals no longer works and operating margins keep narrowing.
[Source: dartmouth.theweektoday.com] Southcoast Health today announced that its new Urgent Care center will open at 435 State Road in Dartmouth on Tuesday, January 31.
“We are excited to bring our Urgent Care services to a third area in the South Coast region,” said Keith A. Hovan, President & CEO of Southcoast Health, at the ribbon-cutting ceremony held this morning at the Urgent Care center in Dartmouth. “Our Urgent Care centers in Fairhaven and Wareham are extremely popular, providing convenient and timely medical care to patients when they need it. We look forward to providing the same exceptional, convenient care and service in Dartmouth.”
Read More[Source: newsletter.convergenceri.com] NEW BEDFORD, Mass. – Keith Hovan, the president and CEO of Southcoast Health, oversees a nonprofit health care delivery system that includes four hospitals and serves more than 719,000 residents in 33 communities, providing “an integrated continuum of health services,” covering a region that includes much of Southeastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, an area of some 900 square miles.
Read More[Source: newsletter.convergenceri.com] Keith Hovan, the president and CEO of Southcoast Health, oversees a nonprofit health care delivery system that includes four hospitals and serves more than 719,000 residents in 33 communities, providing “an integrated continuum of health services,” covering a region that includes much of Southeastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, an area of some 900 square miles.
Read More[Source: patriotledger.com] NEW BEDFORD — Southcoast Health has announced that U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-9th District, has been named the recipient of the 2015 Southcoast Health - Hero for Health Award.
Read More[Source: mhalink.org] Southcoast Health and Care New England announced Tuesday that each organization’s Board has voted to move forward with their proposed affiliation into an eight-hospital system spanning southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Read More[Source: dartmouth.theweektoday.com] Southcoast Health today announced that Elizabeth (Beth) Kunz was award the prestigious Southcoast Trustees' Medal for Outstanding Service by the Board of Trustees for Southcoast Health at its Annual Meeting at the New Bedford Whaling Museum on December 8.
Read More[Source: bostonglobe.com] Southcoast Health System, a New Bedford-based community hospital chain, is seeking to combine with one of Rhode Island’s biggest health systems, as consolidation continues to remake the health care market.
Read More[Source: wickedlocal.com] A new Southcoast Health Urgent Care Center will open at Wareham Crossing in Wareham on Tuesday, Sept. 2, Southcoast® Health has announced.
"The Southcoast Urgent Care Center at Wareham Crossing will provide Wareham and the surrounding communities with a new, convenient way to access the high-quality care that we at Southcoast are proud to deliver," said Keith A. Hovan, president and CEO of Southcoast Health. "With an expanding roster of skilled physicians and other medical professionals, under the fine direction of Dr. Pamela L. Spatz, Southcoast Health Urgent Care provides patients with convenient, quick treatment for minor illnesses and injuries, on their schedule, without waiting for an appointment.”
Read More[Source: wareham.theweektoday.com] The Southcoast Hospital Group will open its newest Urgent Care Center in Wareham Crossing on September 2.
Filling the space between a scheduled doctor’s visit and the hospital emergency room, the center will provide immediate, non-emergency care on a walk-in basis.
It’s equipped to treat both adults and children six months and older for ailments and injuries that do not require emergency attention.
“The main reason we’re opening is to provide patients better and immediate access to healthcare,” said Dr. Paul Iannini, Physician in Chief of Medicine at Southcoast Health. “If they can’t get immediately get into their doctor’s office, it provides a venue for them to receive care in a convenient and timely manner. And I think its very conveniently located.”
Read More[Source: golocalprov.com] The Arthritis Foundation of New England has bestowed Keith Hovan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Southcoast Health System, Inc. and Southcoast Hospitals Group, Inc. with the “Outstanding Achievement Award.” Hovan will accept the award at the 12th annual Arthritis Foundation Crystal Ball, held at the Newport Marriott on November 16th.
Read MoreMembers of the Leadership SouthCoast Class of 2013 spent a day on March 13th exploring the health status and the healthcare system of Fall River and New Bedford as part of their ten-month community leadership program.
Read More[Source: wareham.theweektoday.com] Tobey Hospital has been designated "baby-friendly" by the World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund. A ceremony was held Monday at the hospital to celebrate the distinction.
Read More[Source: wareham.theweektoday.com] A.D. Makepeace and Southcoast Health System, along with Wareham town officials and state legislators, celebrated the grand opening of the 67,000-square-foot medical office building at Rosebrook Business Park with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday evening.
"It's pretty remarkable to be there for the ribbon cutting" less than a year after ground was broken on the project, said Chris Makepeace, member of the A.D. Makepeace Board of Directors.
Read More[Source: fiercehealthcare.com] Most often, one or more small hospitals will link up with a local leader, such as with the agreement between Boston's renowned Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and St. Anne's Hospital, part of Caritas Christi Health Care, in Fall River. Under that deal, Dana-Farber shares oncologists with St. Anne's and gives the smaller hospital's patients access to Dana-Farber's clinical trials, in which experimental treatments are tested, reports the Boston Globe.
Read More[Source: uticaod.com] Southcoast Hospitals Group ranked among the top 10 percent in the United States for its cardiac care programs, according to HealthGrades’ 11th annual Hospital Quality in America Study released Tuesday.
Read More[Source: sj-r.com] Southcoast Hospitals Group ranked among the top 10 percent in the United States for its cardiac care programs, according to HealthGrades’ 11th annual Hospital Quality in America Study released Tuesday.
Read More[Source: modernhealthcare.com] Southcoast Health System, Fall River, Mass., has appointed Keith Hovan president and chief executive officer of its three-hospital Southcoast Hospitals Group.
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