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Published: 4/15/2014 - Updated: 5 hours ago
BY JON CHAVEZ BLADE BUSINESS WRITER
George L. Chapman, chief executive officer of Health Care REIT Inc., the billion-dollar real estate investment trust based in Toledo, on Monday announced his retirement, effective immediately.
Health Care REIT said Thomas J. DeRosa, 56, a director of the company since 2004, would become its new CEO.
The company said that Mr. Chapman, 66, who also is chairman and president, is stepping down to focus on his health and to give attention to personal and civic commitments.
In an interview Monday, Mr. DeRosa said Mr. Chapman told the board recently he has a nonlife-threatening health issue that he needs time to take care of, as well as focusing on his family.
Mr. Chapman will become a senior adviser to the company, which is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol HCN.
Jeffrey Donahue, who was Health Care REITs lead independent director, will replace Mr. Chapman as board chairman. The title of president will be vacated.
A company spokesman said while Mr. Chapman had decided not to discuss his retirement decision, he did issue a statement.
It has been an honor to lead HCN, its talented management team, and dedicated employees over the past two decades. I am extremely proud of what we have accomplished together, and I am confident HCN is well-positioned to succeed, Mr. Chapman said. While I will miss my day-to-day role at HCN, now is the right time for me to move on and serve the company in a different capacity.
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Despite the driving rain, construction crews were still out and working to build the new $47 million addition to North Dutchess Hospial in Rhinebeck on Tuesday, April 15th, 2014.KELLY MARSH/For the Times Herald-Record
Published: 3:20 PM - 04/15/14 Last updated: 3:23 PM - 04/15/14
RHINEBECK The regions health care landscape underwent a dramatic if quiet sea change over the weekend, as one venerable medical institution was given a new name and another launched a new $47 million building expansion.
Last year, St. Francis Hospital fell short of celebrating its centennial year as an independent Catholic hospital when it declared bankruptcy in December. It will soon likely in May become part of Health Quest, the regions largest health care conglomerate. Health Quest has promised there will be no job loss as the result of the acquisition. Its new name will be Mid-Hudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center.
On Friday, the same day Health Quest announced the name change, company officials and political figures turned over the first ceremonial scoops of earth that will mark the beginning of a new $47 million addition to Northern Dutchess Hospital in the village of Rhinebeck.
That addition includes another six operating rooms and 40 patient rooms at the hospital.
Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, D-Kingston, who participated in the ceremony, lauded the hospital for paying attention to public comment during planning board review.
While not all stakeholders were on the same page from the start, the hospital took great pains to listen to public input and make significant changes to their plan, he said in a statement.
The changes on the east side of the Hudson come as the fate of the two major hospitals on the west side, in Ulster County, contend with uncertain futures.
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Virginia's two Catholic bishops have urged the state's lawmakers to enact health care reforms "that cover everyone and protect everyone, born and unborn."
A statement issued Friday by Bishops Francis DiLorenzo of Richmond and Paul Loverde of Arlington was prompted by the Virginia General Assembly's ongoing debate over health care reform during a special session on the state budget.
According to the Associated Press, one of the issues facing law makers is what to do about Medicaid expansion, which has resulted in an impasse, delaying passage of a state budget.
Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe and the Democrat majority in the Senate, with the support of three Republicans, want to expand Medicaid eligibility to about 400,000 low-income residents. House Republicans oppose the Senate's proposal.
"The current debate over health care and the state budget is, at its heart, about Virginia's poorest and most vulnerable people," DiLorenzo and Loverde said. "For this reason, it is one we bishops care about deeply, and are actively engaged in through our Virginia Catholic Conference."
The conference, which released their statement, is the public policy arm of the Catholic church in Virginia.
The bishops said their advocacy on the issue of health care "is informed by the church's teaching that, first, everyone has the right to life, and second, health care is a right -- not a privilege -- that flows from the right to life itself.
"This understanding transcends the categories of left and right, liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican," they said. "It applies to all members of the human family -- born and unborn, affluent and poor, insured and uninsured."
To reach the goal of covering and protecting everyone with decent health care, the bishops described "two gaps" they said must be closed.
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George L. Chapman, the chairman, president, and chief executive officer since 1996 of Health Care REIT, Inc., today announced his retirement from the Toledo-based real estate investment trust, effective immediately.
The company said Thomas J. DeRosa, 56, a director of the company, is the new chief executive officer, replacing Mr. Chapman, 66, who said he is stepping down to focus on his health and personal and civic commitments.
Mr. Chapman will continue to serve as a senior advisor to the company. Jeffrey Donahue, who was the companys lead independent director of the board, will become Health Care REITs board chairman.
The company, which acquires, plans, develops, and manages real estate properties in the healthcare field, including senior living communities, medical office buildings, inpatient and outpatient medical centers, and life science facilities, said the succession process for Mr. Chapmans eventual retirement had been in the planning stages for more than a year.
Earlier this year, Mr. Chapman signed a new three-year contract to continue to guide the company.
But Health Care REIT said the plans for his retirement were accelerated when the CEO and chairman recently informed the board of his intentions to step down this spring.
Health Care REIT, which was founded in 1970 and in 2013 had revenues of $2.88 billion, added that it had created a new Management Committee made up of company executives to work with Mr. DeRosa to help oversee day-to-day operations.
Mr. DeRosa currently resides in Aspen, Colo., but is in the process of relocating to Toledo.
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AS the country strives to reduce the cost of health care while maintaining quality and safety of services, efforts are underway to have guidelines that promote health workers to be innovative.
Acting Assistant Director for Health Service Inspectorate and Quality Assurance in the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Dr Eliudi Eliakimu, said recently that what is needed today is innovations that will improve value while minimising costs for care provided.
"The global focus now is towards improving the value of services provided to clients. This takes into account the challenges of resource availability and the impact of economic downturn (recession)," he explained.
Dr Eliakimu cited that in the 2007 National Health Policy document, one of the goals is to provide essential health services that are geographically equitable, of acceptable quality standards, affordable and sustainable.
He said that a renowned expert in competitive strategy and principles from Harvard University Business School Professor Michael Porter in an article published together with Dr Thomas Lee, Professor of Medicine and Health Policy and Management at Harvard gives insight to strategies that will fix health care published in the Harvard Business Review October 2013.
"In the article, they recommend shifting focus to value of health care provided which is defined as health outcomes that matter to patients divided by costs of delivering the outcome," he elaborated.
In a recent article that was ran by the Times of India, a common paper clip was used by Dr Pushkar Waknis, a Punebased maxillofacial surgeon, to keep the skin flap in place while operating.
Not only is it effective, but also more easily accessible than the textbook prescribed Raney clips, which are hard to find in India and, at Rs 40,000 (approximately 1m/-) a box.
"The paper clip can drastically bring down the cost of the surgery," says Dr Waknis who works at Dr D Y Patil College of Dentistry and Nursing in Pune. He co-wrote a paper on this innovation, which was published in the Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery last year.
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Outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says the administration's own predictions that the new health care law's online sign-up system would be ready by Oct. 1 were "just flat out wrong."
Sebelius told NBC's "Meet the Press" in an interview airing Sunday the health care website's launch was "terribly flawed and terribly difficult."
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She says that eight-week period was her low point of her tenure. Sebelius last week announced her resignation. She says she wanted to give President Barack Obama enough time to bring in a new health chief.
Sebelius' resignation comes just a week after sign-ups for insurance coverage ended, enrolling 7.1 million people and exceeding initial expectations.
Enrollment has since increased to 7.5 million as people were given extra time to complete applications.
Sebelius also defended the law's impact and said millions of Americans now have access to health care because of it.
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"People have competitive choices and real information for the first time ever in this insurance market," said Sebelius, who last week announced her resignation.
Yet she acknowledged the rocky rollout for the online sign-up system fraught with technical problems that left Americans frustrated.
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By Dow Jones Business News, April 14, 2014, 08:37:00 AM EDT
By Michael Calia
Health Care REIT Inc. on Monday said George L. Chapman has retired as chairman and chief executive, and the company appointed two men to fill the roles.
Thomas J. DeRosa took over as chief executive, effective immediately, the company said, while Jeffrey H. Donahue was appointed chairman.
Health Care REIT said it also created a management committee comprised of several top company executives to assist DeRosa, 56 years old, in running the company's day-to-day operations.
Mr. DeRosa is a Health Care REIT director and former chief financial officer of real estate development and operations firm the Rouse Company. Mr. Donahue, also a former Rouse Company finance chief, had been serving as Health Care REIT's independent lead director.
Mr. Chapman, 66, will continue to act as a senior adviser to the company, according to a release.
Health Care REIT--one of the biggest owners of senior housing in the world--has broadened its property portfolio with acquisitions in recent periods. The company made 12 property buys totaling $277.5 million occurring during the fourth quarter, while it made more than $500 million in gross new investments during the first quarter.
Shares of Health Care REIT, which affirmed its full-year guidance, were inactive premarket.
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