The Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons (ACoS) has Granted Three Year Accreditation with Commendation to the Cancer Program at St. John Medical Center. [More]

Mercy Medical Center inducted Farouq Ahmed, M.D., Albert T. Domingo, M.S., M.D., and Michael H Linz, M.D., into the Society of St. Luke, Mercy’s physician honor society, during an induction ceremony and dinner held September 27 at Brookside Country Club. [More]

To help prevent the misuse of prescription drugs and address the safety and health hazards of pharmaceutical waste, Mercy Medical Center is partnering with the Stark County Sheriff Department, Canton City Police Department and the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to serve as a collection site for a one-day Prescription Drug “Take-Back” initiative on Saturday, September 29. [More]

Providence Hospitals, South Carolina Heart Center, WIS-TV and the South Carolina State Museum, are joining forces to provide the first behind the scenes look offered in the southeastern United States at a beating open-heart surgery. [More]

The accreditation program – sponsored by the American Heart Association and the Society of Chest Pain Centers – recognizes centers that meet or exceed quality of care measures for people experiencing the most severe type of heart attack, ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), in which blood flow is completely blocked to a portion of the heart. Mercy Heart Center underwent numerous on-site reviews by accreditation specialists from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. [More]

Mercy Medical Center has been accredited for a period of three years for its adult hospital inpatient rehabilitation and adult hospital inpatient rehabilitation stroke specialty programs by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). [More]

Leadership Stark County has elected a new slate of board officers. The board includes two representatives from the ministries of the Sisters of Charity Health System: Barbara Frustaci from Mercy Medical Center and Shana Rozier from Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton. [More]

Mercy Medical Center Emergency Chest Pain Center has received full, three-year Cycle IV accreditation with PCI (percutaneous coronary interventions), or angioplasty, from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. [More]

Leaders from the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, Sisters of Charity Health System and St. Vincent Charity Medical Center recently welcomed the greater Cleveland community to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Rosary Hall at an event at Windows on the River. [More]

The Plain Dealer recently featured the upcoming Festival of the Arts event at St. John Medical Center, which is a 50/50 partnership between the Sisters of Charity Health System and University Hospitals. [More]