Don Bisbee
In its new venture with ValueHealth, University Hospitals aims to offer bundled-payment models for certain procedures at a series of new ambulatory surgery centers in Northeast Ohio that the two are developing as part of UH s value-based strategy.
So far, the two have announced centers in Lorain County and Medina, with plans for more in the region. The outpatient facilities will offer total joint replacement care and may expand to include other complementary multi-specialty surgical care such as ENT and pain management. In collaboration with ValueHealth a Leawood, Kan.-based healthcare services company that operates Ambulatory Centers of Excellence UH is working to provide many such procedures in a bundled model, offering a predictable price for payers and employers.
Don Bisbee
In its new venture with ValueHealth, University Hospitals aims to offer bundled-payment models for certain procedures at a series of new ambulatory surgery centers in Northeast Ohio that the two are developing as part of UH s value-based strategy.
So far, the two have announced centers in Lorain County and Medina, with plans for more in the region. The outpatient facilities will offer total joint replacement care and may expand to include other complementary multi-specialty surgical care such as ENT and pain management. In collaboration with ValueHealth a Leawood, Kan.-based health care services company that operates Ambulatory Centers of Excellence UH is working to provide many such procedures in a bundled model, offering a predictable price for payors and employers.
Damian Eduardos
Vitamix (shown before the pandemic) and Baldwin Wallace are teaming up for a program that will feature students working as assemblers.
Baldwin Wallace University and blender manufacturer Vitamix are teaming up on a new learn and earn program. The collaboration is a step aimed at furthering the link between institution and industry in Northeast Ohio.
Last year, only 34% of the region s workforce had a two- or four-year degree or credential. That s far from the goal of 65% the state will reportedly need to hit by 2025.
Program participants will spend 30 hours a week working as assemblers, getting paid a starting salary listed at $14.52 an hour. Ten additional hours a week will be spent completing BW coursework on-site at Vitamix, working to earn a bachelor of applied business degree. That chunk of time is composed of two-hour unpaid breaks per day.
Baldwin Wallace University
Baldwin Wallace and John Carroll universities will hold commencement ceremonies outdoors with COVID-19 protocols in place, honoring both the Class of 2021 and last year s graduates.
When John Carroll University’s graduating class of 2020 had to forgo in-person commencement ceremonies because Ohio was in the middle of a pandemic-related lockdown, the administration told those students, that “when the coast was clear,” they would get their ceremony.
And the university is making good on that promise.
Later this month, John Carroll will hold three in-person commencements May 20-23. One outdoor ceremony, to be held at Hamlin Quad, will be for the Class of 2020. Those graduates did have a virtual ceremony last year, but, according to university spokesman Mike Scanlan, the school owed them more.
For Marcus and Kristen Atha, the family has not one, but three graduations this year to attend. We ll be at three different ceremonies in the course of three weeks, said Marcus Atha, senior pastor at North Broadway Methodist Church. We re having big fun.
Back-to-back-to-back college graduation ceremonies
The Athas, of Clintonville, have four college-aged children: 23-year-old Lucas and 22-year-old triplets Chelsea, Cameron and Simeon.
Three of the four Atha siblings are graduating in back-to-back-to-back ceremonies this month. Last Sunday, Chelsea graduated from Bowling Green State University with an education degree. Lucas will graduate from Ohio State University Sunday with a moving-image production degree, and Simeon graduates May 16 from Boston University with an international relations degree.