News Releases
Consumer Reports unveils new hospital surgery rating system
This morning, Consumer Reports released its new hospital surgery rating system, giving a safety rating for 2,464 hospitals nationally. Using Medicare claims data from 2009-2011 for patients 65 and ...Continue →
Advancing a new approach to hip replacement surgery
Dr. Lou Keppler, orthopedic surgeon and co-medical director of the Spine and Orthopedic Institute, discusses the latest advances in hip replacement surgery ...Continue →
Fashion Tips from a Foot and Ankle Specialist
As a foot and ankle specialist, it can be a prickly struggle to enforce function over fashion when it comes to high-heeled shoe wearing patients. Rather than attempting to triumph over style, I spend ...Continue →
Is it a stroke? Check these signs FAST!
The month of May is officially designated as National Stroke Awareness Month. Stroke is a leading cause of death and serious, long-term disability in the United States. According to the American ...Continue →
St. Vincent Charity Celebrates Patient Advocacy with Inaugural Kathleen Redmond Award
Last week, we concluded our National Nurses’ Week celebration by announcing the recipient of the inaugural Kathleen Redmond Educational Award. Kathleen Redmond was a nurse on 2A who died unexpectedly ...Continue →
St. Vincent Charity helps to raise awareness of heroin epidemic
Back in February, St. Vincent Charity Medical Center began working with WKYC’s Senior Health Correspondent, Monica Robins, on an important documentary about the heroin epidemic in Northeast Ohio. On ...Continue →
Health Literacy Institute at SVCMC invited to the Institute of Medicine
Karen Komondor, director of the Health Literacy Institute at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, was invited to present at the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable Workshop on Health Literacy in ...Continue →
St. Vincent Charity Addiction Medicine Fellowship Receives Accreditation by ABAM Foundation
Eight Addiction Medicine Fellowship Programs Accredited by ABAM FoundationTotal Programs Accredited by American Board of Addiction Medicine Foundation Now Stands at 18The American Board of Addiction ...Continue →
St. Vincent Charity and Austen BioInnovation announce strategic partnership
Partnership creates an innovation-oriented pathway for surgeons to explore and commercialize new ideas and solutions. ...Continue →
Watch for our new ad campaign launching April 8
Working with our creative agency, Wyse Advertising, we have a new ad campaign for 2013 that launches on TV on April 8. Here is a behind-the-scenes photo from our shoot. ...Continue →