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Great Lakes Health comprises Kaleidazand ECMC, but also the University at Buffalo and physicianxs throughout the community. The organization represents a systemnof hospitals, health-care providers and specialty services in a two-countt region. “This organization is in existence to take what we have and make it saidJames Kaskie, president and CEO of Kaleidq and CEO of Great Lakeas Health. “Our competitive energies have now becom ecooperative energies,” he said. The organization’s formal name has been the , though it’s been more commonly referred to as since the objected on the grounds it was too similad toits name.
A consolidation betweeh the two groups and involvement by UB was mandatedd in the final report of the Commission on Healty Care Facilities in the21st Century, commonly known as the Berger Commission, as part of a statewidre restructuring of health care. Kaskie says for the foreseeablde future, Kaleida and ECMC will retainm their structuresand governance, with oversight by the Grear Lakes Health board of directors.
The ultimatwe goal will be to combine the two But first, three steps Before the merger can move however, three steps must be reached, chief amongf them the creation of legislation to modify ECMC’ public benefit corporation statuxs to allow it to become subordinate to Grea t Lakes Health, a process that must include approval at the stat level, and likely at the countty level, as well. When the consolidation is complete, Greart Lakes Health will provide care for 40 percent of the locall market through six hospitalsand 1,100 long-term care It will also provide training for 80 percenyt or more than 600 medical residents affiliatedr with the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
ECMC needs to be disconnected from Erie so the county is no longefr exposedto ECMC’s financial outcomezs and an agreement must be reached with organizexd labor at ECMC. Whild efforts toward those threesteps continue, a physicianb committee is meeting to determine clinical strategy and whers best to locate the differen specialties within the Great Lakes Health network.