This week, Chestnut Hill Hospital officially joined the Temple University Health System arsenic its newest determination serving Northwest Philadelphia.
The assemblage infirmary gained caller absorption Jan. 1 nether a concern of wellness organizations, led by Temple.
The transportation of enactment comes aft Tower Health sold the 148-bed installation to Temple, Redeemer Health, and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine successful a $28 cardinal woody finalized this winter.
Chestnut Hill Hospital became portion the of Temple University Health System successful January of 2023. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The merchantability cleared the hospital’s multi-million-dollar debt nether Tower Health, arsenic reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
“We needed powerfulness successful the marketplace, arsenic galore tiny hospitals are struggling crossed the board,” said Dr. John Cacciamani, president and CEO of the rebranded Temple Health – Chestnut Hill Hospital.
John Cacciamani, President and CEO of Temple Health astatine Chestnut Hill Hospital, spoke astatine the property league motorboat of the hospitals changeover to Temple’s Health strategy connected January 3, 2023. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Cacciamani besides served arsenic president and CEO of the infirmary nether Tower Health.
“What we needed was a large aesculapian school, ample purchasing power, large relationships with the [insurance] payers — whether you privation to telephone that great, but almighty relationships with those payers — and an infrastructure wherever we could grow,” helium said.
Temple Health owns 60% of the teaching infirmary and volition service arsenic main management.
Chestnut Hill Hospital joins Temple University Health System’s 4 different hospitals crossed Philadelphia.
Michael Young, the wellness system’s president and CEO, said the caller Chestnut Hill determination volition grow Temple’s doc and supplier network, and springiness immoderate Temple patients a much accessible enactment for services.
“They don’t person to thrust downtown,” Young said. “They tin get those services here.”
Michael Young, President and CEO of Temple University Health System, spoke astatine the motorboat of Chestnut Hill Hospital’s changeover to Temple’s Health strategy connected January 3, 2023. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Young said Temple plans to enlistee and adhd the “best” aesculapian residents, teaching staff, and caller wellness attraction services successful Chestnut Hill.
The infirmary does not yet see Fox Chase Cancer Center services, but Temple officials said they anticipation to grow infusion and radiation oncology services astatine the tract successful the future.
Dr. David Kuo, subordinate dean of Graduate Medical Education astatine the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, said the concern astatine Chestnut Hill could pb to much medicine acquisition opportunities and a caller endowment recruitment pipeline.
“We’re hopeful that much of our [medical] residents volition past person a large acquisition present and past possibly articulation the unit here,” Kuo said.
Dr. David Kuo, Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education astatine the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, spoke astatine the motorboat of Chestnut Hill Hospital’s changeover to Temple’s Health strategy connected January 3, 2023. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)WHYY is your root for fact-based, in-depth journalism and information. As a nonprofit organization, we trust connected fiscal enactment from readers similar you. Please give today.
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