The challenges brought by COVID-19 have strained some U.S. health care systems to their limits. But the BJC Collaborative member systems are taking on those challenges by doing what they’ve done for almost eight years — joining forces and getting to work.
Smoking cessation was the focus of a BJC Collaborative workshop, held in November at Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s Parkview Tower.
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Two of the Kansas City area’s most respected names in health-sciences education have announced their intent to join forces under an affiliation agreement being signed by Rockhurst University and Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City.
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Decatur Memorial Hospital will become the second largest hospital in the Springfield-based Memorial Health System, pending regulatory approval. The boards of both nonprofit health care organizations reached an affiliation agreement in late April, with full affiliation set to occur on Oct. 1, 2019.