The University of Chicago Medicine and AdventHealth person closed connected a transaction to signifier a associated task called UChicago Medicine AdventHealth, which volition harvester the expertise and resources of some organizations to bring world medicine to the occidental suburbs of Chicago successful the United States.
The 2 organizations announced a definitive statement to affiliate successful September 2022, with plans for UChicago Medicine to get a controlling involvement successful AdventHealth’s Great Lakes Region, which includes its 4 Illinois hospitals successful Bolingbrook, Glendale Heights, Hinsdale, and La Grange, on with a web of astir 50 physicians’ offices and outpatient locations.
The AdventHealth Great Lakes Region’s facilities volition beryllium co-branded arsenic UChicago Medicine AdventHealth to physique upon the complementary strengths of the 2 organizations, with UChicago Medicine’s nationalist estimation arsenic an world wellness strategy and AdventHealth’s absorption connected delivering outstanding aesculapian attraction successful assemblage settings.
“With the motorboat of this affiliation, we are blessed to proceed to physique connected the affluent bequest of whole-person attraction and further our ngo and committedness to making these communities healthier for years to come,” Terry Shaw, president/CEO of AdventHealth, said.
Under the caller associated venture, which became authoritative January 1, 2023, UChicago Medicine gains a controlling involvement successful AdventHealth’s Great Lakes Region. AdventHealth retains the remaining ownership and volition proceed to negociate regular operations of each facilities. Both UChicago Medicine and AdventHealth volition support their abstracted system-level governance and administrative structures.
Physicians of UChicago Medicine and AdventHealth Great Lakes volition spouse and coordinate attraction crossed some organizations to present high-quality, value-based care. This collaboration besides volition pb to an fantabulous diligent acquisition and improved outcomes for patients.
“The biggest payment of this concern is to patients,” Tom Jackiewicz, president of the University of Chicago Medical Center, hub of the UChicago Medicine wellness system, said. “AdventHealth Great Lakes’ patients present volition person seamless entree to UChicago Medicine’s specialty and subspecialty attraction and the latest objective trials without the commute.”
“In the aforesaid vein, UChicago Medicine patients who unrecorded successful the occidental suburbs volition present person entree to AdventHealth’s exceptional quality, community-based care,” Thor Thordarson, president and CEO of AdventHealth’s Great Lakes Region, said. “Working together, we tin execute much for our patients and communities, and our shared resources and expertise volition mean a healthier aboriginal for the greater Chicagoland area.”
Valaitis, Nand to Lead Clinical Integration
Medical teams from some organizations volition beryllium moving successful the coming months to grow programs and services, enlistee much physicians, and present adjacent amended care. To pb that effort, Sandra Valaitis has been appointed UChicago Medicine’s Chief Physician for the affiliation. Valaitis presently serves arsenic UChicago Medicine’s Section main of gynecology and reconstructive pelvic country and vice-chair of module affairs.
In her caller position, she volition beryllium liable for doc collaboration, objective integration, and programme improvement for the caller associated venture. She volition beryllium moving intimately with Bela Nand, main aesculapian serviceman astatine UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale and La Grange, who volition pb the objective integration efforts for the AdventHealth Great Lakes Region facilities.
“I americium excited to enactment unneurotic with my colleagues astatine UChicago Medicine and AdventHealth to guarantee we’re gathering bridges betwixt organizations that volition alteration america to amended link attraction for patients — whether they’re seeing their long-time household doc successful the occidental suburbs oregon a subspecialist successful Hyde Park,” Valaitis said.
AdventHealth and UChicago Medicine are present affiliated to supply adjacent amended diligent attraction successful Chicago’s occidental suburbs. [Photo: AdventHealth]An Expanding Health System
The affiliation is the latest determination for UChicago Medicine, an integrated world wellness strategy that includes hospitals, outpatient clinics, and doc practices passim Chicagoland arsenic good arsenic successful the suburbs and northwest Indiana. UChicago Medicine has been moving for galore years connected processing and strengthening a health-care ecosystem for communities connected the South Side and beyond. That includes plans to physique Chicago’s freestanding broad crab installation connected its aesculapian field connected the South Side, wherever crab is the second-leading origin of death. It’s besides gathering a 130,000-square-foot (12,000-square-meter) multispecialty ambulatory halfway successful Crown Point to service the increasing colonisation successful northwest Indiana. It is besides collaborating with 12 assemblage providers connected the South Side Healthy Community Organization collaborative, which is moving to amended entree to high-quality attraction for much than 400,000 radical who unrecorded connected Chicago’s South Side.
AdventHealth is simply a faith-based wellness strategy headquartered successful Florida with much than 50 infirmary campuses successful 9 states and much than 80,000 squad members, 2,400 employed physicians, and astir 18,000 aesculapian unit providers crossed the organization. AdventHealth’s Great Lakes Region includes UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Bolingbrook, UChicago Medicine AdventHealth GlenOaks, UChicago Medicine AdventHealth La Grange, and UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale, which has been serving the assemblage for much than 100 years, arsenic good arsenic astir 50 superior and specialty signifier locations and 2 multispecialty ambulatory centers. The Carol Stream and Woodridge ambulatory centers connection superior and specialty attraction providers, diagnostic imaging, and laboratory services.
The original version of this communicative was posted by the Lake Union Herald.
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