Dignity Health To Introduce Personalized Maternity Care
Other hospital news comes from Orange County, the East Bay and Castro Valley.
San Francisco Business Times:
Dignity Partners With Startup To Personalize Maternity Care
San Francisco’s Dignity Health has partnered with Boston-based Docent Health to personalize care for moms. Dignity will introduce this service from Docent Health at Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria and at Chandler Regional Medical Center in Chandler, Ariz., with expansion across its system in the future. Rich Roth, chief strategic innovation officer, is heading up the partnership at Dignity as part of its Run, Run, Jump innovation strategy. Dignity in the last four to five years has been working with three to five “emerging” companies per year to test and launch pilots with the goal of scaling those solutions. A few recent partnerships include pilots with AirStrip, Augmedix and Go Health. (Siu, 1/5)
Orange County Register:
3 Orange County Hospitals Among 14 Fined By State For Putting Patients At Risk
The California Department of Public Health has slapped 14 California hospitals, including three in Orange County, with penalties totaling $913,550 for failing to comply with licensing requirements, putting patients at risk of serious injury or death. (Bharath, 1/5)
East Bay Times:
Eden Health District Seeks Time To Develop Dublin Gateway
Eden Health District administrators have at least another year to develop plans for either a new medical office building or a hospital near Hacienda Crossings Shopping Center and craft a deal that could eventually pave the way for its construction. Though many details are being worked out, the East Bay healthcare district is turning to Denver-based National Healthcare Development Corporation to make the longtime project at Dublin Gateway Medical Center happen, according to public documents and Eden Health District administrators. (Moriki, 1/6)
East Bay Times:
Castro Valley: Mixed Views On Eden Health District's Future
An Alameda County-backed study analyzing the often criticized Eden Health District’s operations and management and possible options to dissolve it is getting mixed feedback from the special district’s leaders and East Bay lawmakers. Eden Health District administrators say the 82-page study by Berkson Associates of Berkeley was unnecessary, since the results vary little from 2013 and 2015 reviews by the county’s Local Agency Formation Commission. (Moriki, 1/6)