Who owns deaconess medical center spokane

Barts was appointed CEO on Oct. Staffing While Barts says Deaconess' current medical staff and employees are one of its strengths, CHS also plans to invest in recruitment.

He says he's talked to about 1, employees in a variety of forums and has the general impression that they are "incredibly loyal. They're vital to our ability to provide personalized care. Deaconess, which has licensed beds, admitted 12, patients in , up from 12, patient admissions a year earlier. It's too early to tell whether it will meet or exceed that number this year, he says.

Any significant increase in admissions next year will depend on how successfully the hospital can recruit physicians to practice there, he adds, adding that a greater number of physicians would be able to treat a greater number of patients. Barts says gaps in medical coverage here include a communitywide shortage of primary-care physicians. Rockwood Health employs more than 3, people. As part of the purchase offer, all employees in good standing at the time of the sale will keep their jobs, Hampton said.

Community Health Systems announced in September that it was looking to sell off hospitals and clinics to pay down debt following a rocky financial performance. The for-profit company has owned Deaconess and Valley hospitals since , and Rockwood Clinic since MultiCare, a secular health system, has hospitals and clinics in the south Puget Sound area.

Spokane is a regional health care hub for 1. The Spokane area will continue to benefit from having two competing hospital systems — Providence and Rockwood — Robertson said. Robertson, who joined MultiCare as CEO in , says with the addition of Rockwood, MultiCare is now the largest community-based, locally-owned community health system in the state. Repetti called the transition an excellent opportunity for both the community and the two newly joined health systems. Robertson says as part of the transition, all Rockwood signage and logos eventually will be changed to showcase the MultiCare name.

Robertson says the decision to operate all three entities under one name was to reinforce connections between employees and provide a larger sense of collaborative care across locations. Robertson claims MultiCare was the third organization in the world to begin using Epic, a system that gives patients online access to their health records as well as the ability to manage appointments, pay bills, and email nonemergency questions to their providers.