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Bob Baxter, President of our Toledo market (Toledo, Ohio), spoke to the region's business community at the 2025 Junior Achievement USA (JA) Inspire Celebration and 2025 Kick-Off Breakfast by sharing stories of welcoming area students into our facilities. The breakfast is the kick off event for the career day that welcomes more than 2600students from more than 30 schools. The JA Inspire event is designed to expose eighth through twelfth grade students to career and employment opportunities in a variety of industries. Participating students are able to create meaningful employment opportunities in a career that is of interest to them. We're looking forward to another year of JA partnership!

Mercy Health Select (MHS) is pleased to welcome University of Toledo Physicians (UTP) to its Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Accountable Care Organization (ACO). ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care professionals that work together to provide Medicare patients high-quality, coordinated, and cost-efficient health care. Participating since 2012, Mercy Health Select is currently caring for over 107,000 Medicare patients in Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia. MHS has been a top ten ACO, out of 480 ACOs across the country, for earned shared savings for the past three years. In 2023, Becker's Healthcare Hospital Review named Mercy Health Select ACO to its list of Top ACOs to Know. This is an exciting opportunity for MHS and UTP to work together to provide Toledo-area Medicare patients with a higher level of coordinated care, creating a better patient experience.

Showing love and compassion to one another is rooted in our mission and everyday actions. Today, we join others around the world to commit to peace above all differences.

Youngstown & Lorain (Ohio) Chief Clinical Officer James Kravec, MD, FACP and St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital Family Medicine Residency Director Thomas Macabobby, MD, FAAFP, who is also an associate professor of Family and Community Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED), joined students and delivered remarks at NEOMED's Backyard Bash. It was a fun-filled evening with food, friends and music. Mercy Health – Youngstown is committed to cultivating the next generation of physicians to ensure that the Mahoning Valley has access to high quality, compassionate providers for decades to come.

Today, we pause and remember. May we honor the lives that were lost, and give thanks for the first responders and service members who served and saved.

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Congratulations to Tamara Huson, MD a physician at Mercy Health – Loveland Primary Care (Cincinnati, Ohio), who was recently recognized as an emerging leader and represented Mercy Health and the state of Ohio at the National Conference of Constituency Leaders (NCCL) in Kansas City. The NCCL is a leadership development event staged by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). The AAFP uses the NCCL to empower a select group of change makers to catalyze positive change in family medicine.

Recently, Lourdes Hospital in our Paducah, Kentucky market made history by receiving the first 3Tesla magnet in the hospital's history! This cutting-edge magnet will enhance the imaging capabilities of the Lourdes hospital and bring more advanced technology to the Paducah community as a whole. We anticipate the magnet being fully installed and operational by late September.

For the fourth year in a row, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have once again recognized Mercy Health – Urbana Hospital (Urbana, Ohio) with the prestigious 5-star rating in this year’s Overall Hospital Quality Star. It was one of only 381 hospitals nationwide to be recognized with a rating of five stars, putting Mercy Health – Urbana among the top facilities in the nation. “Four years at five stars is absolutely a testament to the compassionate and comprehensive care provided at Mercy Health – Urbana Hospital. It speaks to the steadfast commitment of our entire team – every department and every associate, working together towards the common goal of being good help to those in need. I’m so proud of this achievement, and I want to thank the community for continuing to entrust their healthcare to us,” said Jamie Houseman, President of Mercy Health – Urbana Hospital. According to CMS, the Star Ratings were designed to drive systematic improvements in care and safety.

St. Joseph Warren Hospital (Warren, Ohio) recently held a blessed double anniversary celebration for the entire team. The celebration recognized the Sisters of the Humility of Mary 170th anniversary and St. Joseph Warren Hospital’s 100th anniversary. The celebration event was held in the St. Joseph Warren Hospital Healing Garden the day before Humility of Mary Day on July 17. Humility of Mary Day is a central celebration for the Sisters of the Humility of Mary. It marks the anniversary of when, in 1854, the Sisters of the Humility of Mary were founded. This event featured a much-anticipated opening of 1980’s capsule and burying 2024 capsule. Some of the special items unearthed in the historic capsule included: • 1953 annual report book • A 1954 St. Joseph Newsettte pamphlet • 1954 list of Sisters • Copies from the Warren Tribune • An employee recognition dinner program • Project 80s expansion program for the old St. Joseph Riverside Hospital • A rooster of employees in 1981 • Inside Riverside newsletter publications • 1980s annual report • Various nursing pins and religious charms and medals for uniforms The team enjoyed selecting items to include in the 2024 capsule for future generations to find, they selected items including our Weekly Huddle newsletters, anniversary items including a tumbler, an employee badge and clip, prayer cards and programs, a onesie from the solar eclipse and Mercy Health solar sunglasses and a proclamation from the City of Warren and several nursing Magnet pins. A Mass was held followed by a special “Visit with the Sisters” reception. The team was grateful for this special event to give thanks for the Sisters of the Humility of Mary as such a special community of women. Our rich tradition as a Catholic Health ministry recognizes their legacy and building on their good work is an important part of who we are. Together we celebrated their essential legacy at St. Joseph Warren Hospital and the vital role of the hospital in serving our community for the past 100 years.