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Deals with Lake Health and Western Reserve give University Hospitals ‘all the pieces of the puzzle
Dr. Cliff Megerian, president and incoming CEO of UH
In the final months of 2020, University Hospitals rounded out a year of great uncertainty financial and otherwise with two deals that significantly expand the health system s regional footprint.
In November, the system gained a minority interest in Western Reserve Hospital, an independent, physician-owned hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, giving UH its first inpatient location in Summit County. In December, Lake Health agreed to join University Hospitals, ending the Lake County health system s search for a partner that began in early March, just days before the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in Ohio.
Stow businesses take safe dine-in pledge to boost customer confidence, survive winter months
Stow businesses take safe dine-in pledge to boost customer confidence, survive winter months.
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STOW, Ohio â The pandemic has been brutal for small business owners across America and that s no different in Stow.
âItâs really been a challenge,â said Heather Ciranna, owner of Corner Cup Coffee House.
Ciranna admits she misses her community.
âThis space is known as a community gathering place so that s been very difficult to kind of pivot and change the business model,â she said. âWe don t have any seating right now so that s been the biggest change, that people can t come in and sit and stay for a while.â
Zenty will retire as president and CEO of UH at the end of this month, capping nearly two decades of leading the system. In that time, UH has built new hospitals and locations, added existing community hospitals into the system and renovated and expanded facilities.
Summit County, which remained red on the state s COVID-19 color map released Thursday, is meeting three of the system s seven indicators, up from two last week.
The data in the system is preliminary, meaning the numbers could still change as more information is reported to the Ohio Department of Health. Public health officials also have warned of artificial declines around the holidays. The system uses data from the past few weeks, which includes the holidays. During long holiday weekends such as Christmas or New Year’s, some health care providers do not operate at full capacity, and individuals may delay care due to family obligations or travel, the state health department said last week.