Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the nation’s largest health systems, continued its steady path in fiscal 2018 toward positive financial results, generating an improvement of nearly $317 million in operating income– a 53% increase over the previous year.
CHI St. Joseph’s Health, Park Rapids, MN, will team with Essentia Health to host a Wave of Light Ceremony to support people in the community who have experienced pregnancy and infant loss.
Catholic Health Initiatives has joined six other large health systems to establish Civica, a nonprofit generic drug company that will help patients by addressing shortages and high prices of lifesaving medications.
TriHealth, Cincinnati, OH, is partnering with BrightView, a local outpatient addiction medicine practice, to help TriHealth providers who have questions about treatment care of patients with opioid use disorders. The partnership will complement TriHealth’s current alcohol and drug programs and ability to provide a seamless continuum of care.
Kevin E. Lofton, the chief executive officer of Catholic Health Initiatives, is ranked No. 77 on Modern Healthcare magazine’s 2018 list of the “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.”
CHI Memorial and The Chattanooga Heart Institute, Chattanooga, TN, have donated three electrocardiogram (EKG) machines and supplies to Walker County Schools in North Georgia. The machines will be used by students in health care science classes, part of a Career, Technical, and Agriculture Education (CTAE) program
Catholic Health initiatives helped spearhead an 18-month-long effort to create a diagnostic code that will allow medical professionals to identify victims of human trafficking when they arrive at facilities seeking health care.
Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health systems, has awarded new grants totaling $5.2 million this year to innovative programs designed to build healthy communities. In addition, CHI’s Mission and Ministry Fund will provide $4.1 million this year to earlier grantees supported through multi-year funding, including a
Catholic Health Initiatives continued its ongoing financial-improvement plan in the third quarter of the 2018 fiscal year, posting significant gains in both operating income and operating EBIDA (earnings before interest, depreciation and amortization) during the three-month period ending March 31.
Colleen Scanlon, CHI’s senior vice president and chief advocacy officer, is the recipient of the Catholic Health Association’s prestigious Sister Concilia Moran Award for 2018. She will accept the award at the CHA Assembly in June.
