By David Goldberg
Like many health systems, Mon Health’s employed provider network has created new challenges. Mon’s network grew substantially over the past decade through practice acquisition and incremental recruitment. However, due to the nature of the medical group’s growth, the providers within the group were not culturally or operationally aligned. Many continued to operate as they had pre-acquisition. This created challenges and inconsistencies in operations and limited Mon Health’s ability to move as one to address strategic opportunities or challenges.
These challenges were exacerbated by the breadth of the physician enterprise. The medical group served nine counties in three states, and the employed providers served patients in all major health system service lines. Because of the geographic distribution, the providers predominantly interacted with hospital executives at the local level, who were more focused on hospital operations than building consiste
Apr 6, 2021
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Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital in Weston recently received a donation of iPads and Android Tablets.
After experiencing the heartbreaking loss of their father, a Buckhannon family has provided the valuable gift of communication to COVID-19 patients at Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital in Weston and Mon Health Medical Center in Morgantown.
Their donation of iPads and Android tablets will provide other families the opportunity to stay connected while staying apart from their loved ones hospitalized with COVID-19.
Tex E. Walton was admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 on Oct. 7, 2020, and succumbed to the virus on Oct. 20. His daughters, Sheila Perry and Pam Johnston of Buckhannon, could only communicate with him through cell phone and other devices.
Dec 29, 2020
Mon Health Medical Center has partnered with Holiday Inn in Morgantown to help shelter family members of patients from out of town.SUBMITTED RENDERING
FAIRMONT â When family members accompany their loved ones to Morgantown for cancer treatment, the last thing they need to worry about is paying for an expensive hotel stay on top of paying for cancer therapy.
Luella Gunter, executive director of philanthropy at Mon Health Medical Center, said hospital officials began looking for ways to accommodate families during such stressful times.
âWe do a lot with our cancer patients; they are going through treatments,â Gunter said. âThat was sort of the onset of this idea; we realized how many patients are coming here and having to stay throughout the entire week.â