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Adventist Health, said the organization has been involved in the process with Rideout Health.
“We are aware that they are searching for a partner,” Cowan said. “We’ve had preliminary talks to evaluate our fit with Rideout Health, as well as how we would fit with the community. At this stage, there is not a lot to report. As talks continue to progress, if they do, we will be able to make a stronger statement.”
Cowan said Adventist Health works with hospitals and organizations in communities similar to the Yuba-Sutter area.
“We serve a lot of rural communities,” Cowan said. “It’s important to us that we ensure that health care services remain at a high quality in those communities.”
According to its website, Adventist Health is a faith-based (Seventh-day Adventist Church), nonprofit, integrated health delivery system serving communities in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington. It has 20 hospitals with more than 2,915 beds. It has more than 260 hospital-based, rural health and physician clinics, and provides 15 home care agencies, seven hospice agencies and four joint-venture retirement centers.
Its medical services include cancer/oncology, heart and vascular services, home health care, orthopedic and joint care, and women’s health.
The organization has a workforce of 32,900 people – with more than 23,600 employees, close to 5,000 medical staff physicians and 4,350 volunteers. urology.
It is one of the nation’s leading medical schools, ranked 34th in National Institutes of Health funding in 2013, according to its website. It has fully accredited master’s degree programs in public health and informatics and offers a combined M.D.-Ph.D. program.
The nursing school offers five graduate-degree programs. The school was established in 2009 with a $100 million commitment from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. While first classes were held in the fall of 2010, enrollment is expected to reach capacity by 2022, serving roughly 420 students.
The medical group is a 1,000member physician group that offers primary care and specialty expertise in more than 150 areas of health care, according to its website.
“We cannot confirm a potential partnership,” said Melissa Jue, communications specialist for Dignity Health, in an email.
When asked if Dignity Health would say if it weren’t in talks with Rideout Health, Jue replied, “No, I cannot confirm whether we are or are not in negotiations.”
Founded in 1986, the organization is now the fifth largest health system in the nation and the largest hospital provider in California, according to its website. There are more than 9,000 physicians, 62,000 employees, and 400 care centers – including hospitals, urgent and occupational care, imaging centers, home health, and primary care clinics – working in 22 states.
Headquartered in San Francisco, the organization is the official health care provider of the San Francisco Giants, and is a health care partner of the San Francisco 49ers.
It was also named as one of the “150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare” for 2017 by Becker’s Hospital Review. In the last fiscal year, Dignity Health provided $2.2 billion in charitable care and services, according to its website. According to its website, the organization has a workforce of more than 50,000 people – doctors, employees and volunteers – working in more than 100 Northern California cities and towns.
It runs the Sutter Surgical Hospital and the Sutter North Medical Group in the Yuba-Sutter area. The local hospital was ranked the second-highest in the state for satisfaction by its patients in 2016, according to the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems.
Services provided by the organization include bariatric surgery, cancer and oncology, integrative medicine, heart and vascular, orthopedics, pregnancy and childbirth, walk-in care, urgent care, and transplant services.
Calls were forwarded to Ian Castronuovo, vice president of recruiting for Liberty Healthcare Corporation (LHC), but messages were not returned in time for publication.
LHC provides professional staffing for clinics, inpatient psychiatric care facilities and hospitals, manages treatment programs for specialty populations and negotiates sustainable financial structures at medical centers.
LHC operates in healthcare markets – both public and private sectors – that include behavioral health management, intellectual and developmental disabilities, forensic mental health, correctional settings, sex offender services, long-term care, employee and occupational health, co-occurring disorders and residential treatment, according to its website.
The Central Valley Specialty Hospital (CVSH) in Modesto is owned by American Specialty Healthcare, Inc. The organization is currently going through the process of reopening the shuttered hospital in Colusa.
Calls to Gia Smith, CEO of American Specialty Healthcare, were not returned in time of publication.
Its workforce is made up of physicians, registered nurses, respiratory therapists, wound care nurses, physical and occupational therapists, speech therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, dietitians, case managers and social workers.
The focus of CVSH is to provide long-term acute care and transitional care, according to its website. Other services provided by the organization include physician, nursing and clinical services, rehabilitative and respiratory therapy, pharmacological, case management and social services, and pastoral care.
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