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Why 2024 was a ‘banner yr’ for Jefferson Well being


Following the Aug. 1 merger of Philadelphia-based Jefferson Well being and Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Well being Community, the system has been engaged on integrating its 32 hospitals and greater than 700 care websites. 

“It has been a banner yr,” Baligh Yehia, MD, president, Jefferson Well being, mentioned throughout a Jan. 21 Becker’s Healthcare Podcast. “The yr forward is to proceed to deal with our mission of enhancing lives and delivering distinctive care, but additionally on how can we combine the system and actually ensure that we march as one.”

The mixed system created one of many largest U.S. non-profit well being methods, bringing collectively greater than 65,000 staff from each organizations. 

To make sure a clean integration, Jefferson Well being did an evaluation of the cultures at each Jefferson and LVHN. Dr. Yehia estimated that round 10% to fifteen% of LVHN’s medical staff had graduated from Jefferson, making the cultures already extremely aligned.

“There was such camaraderie,” he mentioned. “Loads of the medical doctors and the nurses already knew one another, having labored in the identical or adjoining areas. That dedication to excellence, that dedication to high quality and security was [already] there.”

The system can also be uniting service strains like most cancers, neuroscience, coronary heart and vascular, together with high quality and security, nursing, the medical group and affected person expertise.

“We actually are main with the folks,” he mentioned. “Now we’re pondering extra broadly of how can we take one of the best of each worlds to ship that to the communities that we serve throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania.”

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