Allegheny Health Network

Allegheny Health Network Launches New Program for the Treatment of Insomnia

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

PITTSBURGH, March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Allegheny Health Network (AHN) today announced that it has launched a new, evidence-based treatment program to help patients with insomnia improve their sleep quality and quantity without the use of medication. Supported by grant funding from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI) program at AHN is a blended effort between the AHN Primary Care Institute, AHN Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Institute and Highmark Health.

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  • PITTSBURGH, March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Allegheny Health Network (AHN) today announced that it has launched a new, evidence-based treatment program to help patients with insomnia improve their sleep quality and quantity without the use of medication.
  • Supported by grant funding from the Richard King Mellon Foundation, the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI) program at AHN is a blended effort between the AHN Primary Care Institute, AHN Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Institute and Highmark Health.
  • Patients may access the AHN CBTI program via the AHN Primary Care Institute, AHN Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Institute or the AHN Medicine Institute.
  • "Adding CBTI as a whole-person approach to care at AHN is another important step to reinventing health with our Living Health strategy."

Highmark Health and Epic to Improve Payer-Provider Collaboration with Insights from Google Cloud

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Monday, February 26, 2024

PITTSBURGH and LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Highmark Health today announced its collaboration with Epic and Google Cloud to support coordination across payers and providers, and to identify insights that personalize the consumer experience and improve health outcomes.

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  • Highmark Health to host Epic's Payer Platform on Google Cloud, which will reduce administrative burden, support more holistic care, and improve health outcomes
    PITTSBURGH and LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Highmark Health today announced its collaboration with Epic and Google Cloud to support coordination across payers and providers, and to identify insights that personalize the consumer experience and improve health outcomes.
  • Pairing that resource with Google Cloud's technology gives Highmark Health the ability to change the paradigm," said Tony Farah, MD, executive vice president, chief medical and clinical transformation officer, Highmark Health.
  • Google Cloud data analytics technologies, like BigQuery and Healthcare Data Engine , will facilitate  insights shared with provider partner organizations that use Epic, Highmark health plan staff, and Highmark members through other integrated digital channels such as the My Highmark member portal.
  • For Google Cloud, this means helping healthcare organizations accelerate their digital transformations to support personalized health journeys," said Amy Waldron, director, healthcare and life sciences strategy and solutions, Google Cloud.

Essential Utilities Completes Sale of Allegheny County Microgrid and District Energy Projects to Cordia

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Essential Utilities, Inc. (NYSE: WTRG) today closed the sale of its three non-utility microgrid and district energy properties in Allegheny County to Cordia , a sustainability-driven energy solutions provider.

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  • Essential Utilities, Inc. (NYSE: WTRG) today closed the sale of its three non-utility microgrid and district energy properties in Allegheny County to Cordia , a sustainability-driven energy solutions provider.
  • The agreement covers innovative microgrids and district energy systems developed by Peoples , Essential’s gas operations subsidiary based in Pittsburgh, where the assets are located.
  • Cordia currently operates energy systems in Pittsburgh’s Uptown and North Shore neighborhoods, as well as the on-campus energy system for Duquesne University.
  • “These microgrid projects demonstrated the ability of natural gas to meet all the energy needs of major institutions, like the groundbreaking microgrid at Pittsburgh International Airport,” said Essential Utilities CEO Chris Franklin.

AHN Allegheny General Hospital Achieves Prestigious Magnet® Designation for Nursing Excellence

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Friday, January 19, 2024

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Allegheny General Hospital (AGH), part of the Allegheny Health Network (AHN), has achieved Magnet® designation, a prestigious recognition that reflects the hospital's superior levels of nursing professionalism, teamwork, and patient care.

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  • Allegheny General Hospital (AGH), part of the Allegheny Health Network (AHN), has achieved Magnet® designation, a prestigious recognition that reflects the hospital's superior levels of nursing professionalism, teamwork, and patient care.
  • PITTSBURGH, Jan. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Allegheny General Hospital (AGH), part of the Allegheny Health Network (AHN), has achieved Magnet® designation, a prestigious recognition that reflects the hospital's superior levels of nursing professionalism, teamwork, and patient care.
  • This Magnet designation is a reflection of the tireless dedication and exceptional nursing skills of our team at Allegheny General Hospital.
  • It is now the fourth AHN hospital to receive the Magnet designation, part of the network's ongoing campaign to transform the practice of nursing and sustain a culture of nursing excellence and innovation.

AHN team performs region's first deep brain stimulation therapy to treat opioid addiction

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Saturday, January 13, 2024

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A multidisciplinary team of physicians at Allegheny Health Network (AHN) is among the first in the nation to safely utilize deep brain stimulation therapy (DBS) to treat a patient suffering from opioid addiction.

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  • PITTSBURGH, Jan. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A multidisciplinary team of physicians at Allegheny Health Network (AHN) is among the first in the nation to safely utilize deep brain stimulation therapy (DBS) to treat a patient suffering from opioid addiction.
  • Led by principal investigator and AHN neurosurgeon Nestor D. Tomycz, MD, the AHN team announced this week that they have successfully implanted an deep brain stimulation (DBS) device in the brain of a 28-year-old New York man with treatment-resistant opioid addiction.
  • The procedure took place in December at AHN's Allegheny General Hospital, and the patient's ongoing therapy is part of an FDA-approved clinical study.
  • DBS for opioid-use disorder involves implanting bilateral electrode leads into an area of the brain called the nucleus accumbens – the brain's addiction and reward center.

AHN Wexford Hospital and AHN Westmoreland Recognized with Patient Experience Award from Press Ganey

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Allegheny Health Network (AHN) announced today that both AHN Wexford Hospital and the AHN Westmoreland Endoscopy Center have been recognized by Press Ganey with a 2023 Human Experience (HX) Guardian of Excellence Award® in the 'patient experience' category. These AHN facilities are two of just four health care facilities in the Greater Pittsburgh region to receive this prestigious award.

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  • These AHN facilities are two of just four health care facilities in the Greater Pittsburgh region to receive this prestigious award.
  • Press Ganey is a nationally renowned health care company that measures and analyzes patient satisfaction through surveys and supports health care organizations in their quality improvement initiatives.
  • Of the more than 40,000 health care facilities that work with Press Ganey, the Guardian of Excellence Award is given annually to those that rank in the 95th percentile for patient experience.
  • "We congratulate the outstanding caregivers and staff at AHN Wexford and AHN Westmoreland for once again receiving this much deserved recognition.

EMERUS HOSPITAL RECEIVES NATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR EXCELLENCE IN PATIENT EXPERIENCE

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Monday, January 8, 2024

HOUSTON, Jan. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Emerus Holdings Inc. is proud to announce that one of its partner hospitals, AHN Harmar Neighborhood Hospital in Pittsburgh, has been honored as a 2023 Press Ganey Human Experience Award Winner, recognized as the "Guardian of Excellence" in Patient Experience – Emergency Department.

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  • HOUSTON, Jan. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Emerus Holdings Inc. is proud to announce that one of its partner hospitals, AHN Harmar Neighborhood Hospital in Pittsburgh, has been honored as a 2023 Press Ganey Human Experience Award Winner, recognized as the "Guardian of Excellence" in Patient Experience – Emergency Department.
  • AHN Neighborhood Hospitals was among the first health systems east of the Mississippi to incorporate the unique Emerus neighborhood hospital concept into its care delivery model.
  • As the Hospital Administrator, I help the team understand the model and its impact on the patients and families we serve.
  • Our face-to-patient ratio allows staff time to apply their personal touches to the patient experience – truly, neighbors caring for neighbors."

Cedar Unveils Bold Solutions for Healthcare Affordability in 2023, With Continued Focus in Year Ahead

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Monday, January 8, 2024

NEW YORK, Jan. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare drives more Americans to bankruptcy than any other sector, and the high cost of care is making consumers sicker. Nearly half of U.S. consumers say that difficulty paying a medical bill has negatively impacted their healing or well-being. That's why in 2023, Cedar, an end-to-end healthcare financial engagement platform, brought together providers, payers, financial institutions and government assistance to address the affordability crisis in healthcare.

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  • Nearly half of U.S. consumers say that difficulty paying a medical bill has negatively impacted their healing or well-being.
  • That's why in 2023, Cedar , an end-to-end healthcare financial engagement platform, brought together providers, payers, financial institutions and government assistance to address the affordability crisis in healthcare.
  • "We're excited to continue advancing affordability and access in healthcare."
  • - Florian Otto, CEO and Co-founder, Cedar
    As of December 2023, Cedar engages with 25 million patients on an annualized basis.

AHN Appoints Ewurama Sackey, MD, as Medical Director of Maternal-Infant Mental Health

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Tuesday, December 19, 2023

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Ewurama Sackey, MD, a psychiatrist with clinical expertise in child and adolescent psychiatry and parent-child mental health, has joined Allegheny Health Network (AHN) as medical director for the Maternal-Infant Mental Health program within the Women's Behavioral Health (WBH) program.

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  • Ewurama Sackey, MD, a psychiatrist with clinical expertise in child and adolescent psychiatry and parent-child mental health, has joined Allegheny Health Network (AHN) as medical director for the Maternal-Infant Mental Health program within the Women's Behavioral Health (WBH) program.
  • PITTSBURGH, Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Ewurama Sackey, MD, a psychiatrist with clinical expertise in child and adolescent psychiatry and parent-child mental health, has joined Allegheny Health Network (AHN) as medical director for the Maternal-Infant Mental Health program within the Women's Behavioral Health (WBH) program.
  • "Joining a health care organization that is nationally recognized for its parent-infant mental health program is incredibly invigorating," said Dr. Sackey.
  • The Alexis Joy D'Achille Center for Perinatal Mental Health at West Penn Hospital serves as the flagship location for the Women's Behavioral Health program.

Rasmussen University Appoints Matthew Yale as Board Chairman and Welcomes Dr. Claire Zangerle to its Board of Directors

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Thursday, December 14, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS , Dec. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rasmussen University today announced changes to its Board of Directors, including the appointment of a new chairman and public member. Most notably, longtime chairman Dr. Henry S. Bienen has stepped down but will remain an integral part of the Board as a public member and chair of the Board's Academic Affairs Committee. Matthew Yale, who has been a public member of Rasmussen's Board since 2020, will assume the position of chairman effective immediately.   

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  • Matthew Yale, who has been a public member of Rasmussen's Board since 2020, will assume the position of chairman effective immediately.
  • "I extend my heartfelt congratulations to Matthew on his appointment to chairman of Rasmussen University's Board of Directors," said Dr. Bienen.
  • Rasmussen University is also excited to welcome Dr. Claire Zangerle, principal at CMZ Strategies, LLC, to its Board of Directors, further enriching the diverse perspectives on the Board.
  • Matthew Yale, newly appointed board chairman, expressed his enthusiasm about Dr. Zangerle's addition to the Board, saying, "We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Claire Zangerle to Rasmussen University's Board of Directors.