IN BRIEF

St. Joseph’s and partners open supportive housing development

St. Joseph’s Health and the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency have opened Barclay Place, the first supportive housing to be completed under a state partnership program that promotes hospital investment in affordable and supportive housing in their communities.

With 56 units, Barclay Place is available for vulnerable families and individuals to rent affordable apartments and make use of supportive services provided by St. Joseph’s Health. Barclay Place is in Paterson, where St. Joseph’s Health is based.

“We are very proud to build the first housing unit as part of the Hospital Partnership Subsidy Program and to create a space outside our hospital walls that addresses the health needs within our community,” Kevin J. Slavin, president and CEO of St. Joseph’s Health, said in a press release about the development.

Under its $12 million state program, the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency matched funding contributions from St. Joseph’s. Several units within Barclay Place are set aside for residents with special needs and/or for frequent users of hospital emergency department services.

Partnership provides peer support for patients battling addictions

St. Claire HealthCare is partnering with Edgewater Recovery in a peer support program.

St. Claire patients who are struggling with drug or alcohol addiction will be paired with a peer support specialist at Edgewater “who will help them achieve sustained recovery through shared, lived or common experiences with substance use, addiction or mental health struggles.” That is according to a press release on the program from the Morehead, Kentucky-based St. Claire.

Edgewater Recovery is a statelicensed behavioral health organization that offers alcohol and drug abuse treatment.

At an event announcing the partnership, Morehead Mayor Laura White-Brown noted that there were 105 overdoses last year in the city of about 7,000.

Mercy-Mayo Clinic data collaboration adds three international partners

transgender people are spiritually weary of enduring that harm.

Acknowledge that there is a need for spiritual connection. Terry explained that many transgender people are well connected to their own spiritual life but often disconnected from a broader faith community. The spiritual care provider should seek to understand whether that connection is desired.

Advocate for transgender people. It is important to stand up for transgender people at a time when they need this advocacy, Terry said.

Understand it is a gift when transgender people reveal their identity. Terry explained that it is not always clear who is and who is not transgender. When a member of this community shares that information, it is a gift. The recipient of that gift should affirm the person and help them identify what spiritual strengths they have to share with the world.

Celebrate the joy of transgender people. While people often focus on the hardships of transgender people, there also is joy for people who are becoming their true self by transitioning, Terry said. Spiritual care providers should recognize that all people are children of God, deserving of affirmation as they strive to live with authenticity and integrity.

A 10-year collaboration agreement between Mercy and Mayo Clinic is going global through Mayo Clinic Platform_Connect, a distributed data network.

After first joining with Chesterfield, Missouri-based Mercy to collaborate last summer, Mayo Clinic also has reached similar agreements with Brazil’s Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Israel’s Sheba Medical Center and Canada’s University Health Network.

The organizations’ joint goal is improving the lives and care of patients around the world by using deidentified patient data to pinpoint diseases earlier and transform health care delivery and the practice of medicine to a model much more focused on preventative and wellness care, Mercy said in a press release.

PRESIDENTS/CEOS

Bon Secours Mercy Health of Cincinnati has made these changes: Alan George to president of Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News, Virginia. He was chief operating officer for St. Francis–Emory Healthcare in Columbus, Georgia, part of ScionHealth. Andy Spicknall to president of Bon Secours Harbour View Hospital in Suffolk, Virginia, from vice president of operations for Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia. The Harbor View campus of Bon Secours Mercy Health currently houses the Bon Secours Health Center at Harbour View. The campus is under expansion — Harbour View Hospital is to open there in 2025.

Administrative Changes

CommonSpirit Health of Chicago has made these changes: Nancy Bussani to executive vice president and chief philanthropy officer and president of the CommonSpirit Health Foundation. Delaine Thiel to vice president of philanthropy for the CHI Saint Joseph Health Foundations of Lexington, Kentucky. The five CHI Saint Joseph Health foundations serve patients of Flaget Memorial Hospital, Saint Joseph Hospital and Saint Joseph East in Lexington, Saint Joseph Berea, Saint Joseph Mount Sterling and Saint Joseph London, as well as CHI Saint Joseph Medical Group.

Hospital Sisters Health System of Springfield, Illinois, has made these changes: Dr. Bonny Chen to chief health informatics officer, Frank Rademacher to vice president and chief information officer, and Christine Woolsey to senior vice president and chief marketing and communications officer. All are part of the executive leadership team.

Trinity Health’s MercyOne of Mason City, Iowa, has made these changes: Chad Boore to chief operations officer of MercyOne North Iowa and Ryan Meyer to chief operations officer of MercyOne Northeast Iowa.

Organizations within Bon Secours Mercy Health have made these changes: Yolanda Johnson to chief market human resources strategic partner for Bon Secours St. Francis of Greenville, South Carolina. Brian Miller to director of community relations for Mercy Health — Springfield in Ohio.

Providence Swedish, part of Providence St. Joseph Health, has made these changes: Payam Mohadjeri to chief administrative officer and Dr. James Park to chief medical officer, both for the North Puget Sound region of Providence Swedish of Everett, Washington. Among the facilities in the region are Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, Swedish Edmonds, and Swedish Mill Creek.

Tanya Shanks-Connors to chief nursing officer of PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington.

Timothy G. Laurent to provost and vice president of academic affairs for Mercy College of Health Sciences in Des Moines, Iowa.

Kristin Mosher to director of marketing and communications at St. Mary’s Healthcare, Amsterdam, New York.

Grants

Dignity Health Dominican Hospital and the Dominican Hospital Foundation are receiving $2 million in grant funding from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information. The funds will benefit the new Morehouse School of Medicine Dominican Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. The grant is part of a larger allotment that aims to increase the number of primary care residency programs in family