This is a recap of recent health news featuring Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. We hope you enjoy this week’s edition of collected news, and please feel free to offer comments below – we really do listen!
C3N: Rewriting The Patient-Doctor Script
Medicine X
In its most recent issue, the Stanford publication Medicine X examines The Collaborative Chronic Care Network (C3N). C3N is the brainchild of Peter Margolis, MD, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics , and Michael Seid, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics.
C3N represents a new paradigm and process for medical research with the goal of connecting chronically ill patients and clinicians using real-time data and social media to improve care. Read more here about this innovative program and how it’s changing the lives of patients.
Cincinnati Children’s Employees Give Back On MLK Day
WXIX
Employees of Cincinnati Children’s reached out to the community this week, taking part in the national day of service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Twenty volunteers helped with painting and beautification for the VISIONS Project, which serves young parents and their children. Other employees helped at Bethany House Services, which provides housing for low-income families. The remainder of the volunteers stayed on site at Cincinnati Children’s Sabin Auditorium to help create development toys for Every Child Succeeds.
“Our folks are so amazing here at Cincinnati Children’s,” said James Page, Assistant Vice President, Office of Diversity and Inclusion. “They’re constantly giving back to our community in a medical sense, but this also allows them an opportunity to bring their families and get their families involved in the service they do every day.”
Cincinnati Children’s Impacted By Medicaid Cuts
Cincinnati Enquirer, WXIX, WTVG
Cincinnati Children’s is faced with cutting $50 million from its budget in an effort to absorb losses from Ohio Medicaid. The hospital will cut $20 million from its budget this year and $50 million by 2015.
The hospital, which employs about 12,650 workers and ranks among the top three pediatric hospitals nationally, doesn’t plan to lay off any workers.
Among the top five employers in the region, Cincinnati Children’s remains one of the area’s biggest economic engines.
