My organization just finished going through a initiative change. Our hospital went under a merge that involved another organization. Before the merge took place, we were Resurrection Health Care. Resurrection owned seven hospital as well as one long-term facility and over fitty nursing homes.
Provena healthcare owed ten hospitals as well as over fifty nursing homes. All of their organization are located in southern part of Illinois closes location to the city being in Joliet and as far as Kankakee.
The two systems decide to merge in order to help them stay in the market with the leading competitor of Northshore and Advocate. When we merged there was not big changes made. In my option, they took their time. They watched the …show more content…
When they changed, the name is when the real changes started to occur. They did sell a few hospitals that where not successful as well as several nursing homes.
They also started to look at each facility and decided to merge upper leadership at many of the organizations. For example they looked at the locations of many of the hospital and decided the ones that where close to each other would qualify to be under one leadership. Our hospital and St. Joseph in Chicago are very close to each other so we qualified for this merge.
What this meant for each of our organizations was our leadership team would have to reapply for their position. The candidates all went under several interviews. Our new senior management team is responsible for both facilities.
At St. Frances our leadership is only be responsible for two hospitals. Other sister hospitals this would mean they would be over three different hospital. They narrowed down all senior management. We would now only have one CEO, CFO, CFF, VP of nursing, and one VP of patient care. We went from serval leaders to only a few. This would mean the organization would be able to save money on