CantonINC HEALTH CARE
ABOUT ALLIANCE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL Location: 200 East State St., Alliance Years operating in Stark County: 113 CEO: Stan Jonas What makes it special: Alliance is Ohio’s only Planetree-affiliated hospital. Planetree is a patient-oriented philosophy Licensed beds: 204 (includes 68 skilled nursing beds in affiliated nursing home and 10 beds in the center for rehabilitation) Number of employees: About 1,000 Accepts: All major insurance plans, will treat out-of-network patients Website: www.achosp.org
STAN JONAS Title: CEO Years at ACH: 16 Years as CEO: 16 “We are blessed with a very talented and dedicated medical community; it is a community that cares about those who are less fortunate JONAS and encourages and assists those in need, and personally it is a great place to work and share lifelong friendships.”
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER
AULTMAN HOSPITAL
Aultman Hospital recently opened a 16-bed observation unit for evaluation and expedited testing of shortterm patients. The hospital has opened a new training center, and Aultman College opened its own anatomy and physiology labs for the college’s nursing students. Doctors now enter orders and prescriptions directly into the computer system instead of writing them out. The new system has reduced transcription errors by 90 percent. Aultman has begun planning and fundraising for a new cancer center. The hospital has also begun an $18 million upgrade to its infrastructure, to ensure patient safety. Aultman remains committed to the hospital’s Vision 2020 program, aimed at improving Stark County’s health by 2020. Aultman educates up to 20,000 people a year with its Wellness On Wheels van, gives out free bike helmets to Stark County first graders, and performs roughly 300 to 400 free cancer screenings a year on its cancer screening day.
ABOUT AULTMAN HOSPITAL Location: 2600 6th St. SW, Canton Years in Stark County: 121 Aultman Health Foundation CEO: Ed Roth
What makes it special: Aultman Hospital is Stark County’s oldest and largest hospital — and the only one that vertically integrates an insurance provider, a hospital and colleges of nursing and radiology. Licensed beds: 808 Number of employees: About 5,000 (includes hospital, colleges, insurance provider) Satellites: 18 facilities in three counties Accepts: AultCare insurance plans. NonAultCare patients can be admitted through Aultman’s “Yes,You Can” program. Website: www.aultman.org
ED ROTH Title: CEO, Aultman Health Foundation “The people (of Stark County) are very committed to this community. ... It’s a very caring community.When you do things like trying to ROTH raise money for an initiative … we at Aultman are always amazed at how they really step up to a cause, and make it happen.”
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER
Mercy Medical Center is beginning an Emergency Department expansion and renovation. The Catholic hospital, owned by the Sisters of Charity Health System, plans to more than double the square footage of its current department, going from 33 beds to 48, and adding a dedicated X-ray facility and a new triage area with five treatment spaces. Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce
Alliance Community features an acute care center, a nursing home, and an assisted living center in Alliance, as well as an urgent care center in Louisville. It offers general surgery, wound care, maternity services, some cancer treatment, and extensive therapy programs. It offers area high school students job-shadowing and volunteer opportunities to help with career education.
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