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MATCH Cincinnati program aims to recruit medical students to train and stay in region
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new initiative is aiming to bring more future physicians to Cincinnati by giving medical students a firsthand look at what the city and its health care community have to offer. MATCH Cincinnati is designed to bring third and fourth-year medical students to the region so they...
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Mary Rutan Health earns four national awards for heart attack care
Mary Rutan Health has earned four national recognitions from the American Heart Association for providing high-quality, evidence-based care to patients experiencing heart attacks and other serious cardiac events. The American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines awards recognize hospitals that consistently follow nationally established, research-based guidelines designed to improve treatment...
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Emergency rooms in 'crisis' mean longer visits. It's getting worse
When 43-year-old Ron Miller started to lose feeling in his legs in August, the surgeon who performed his spinal surgery in 2025 told him to get to UC Medical Center's emergency room immediately. Miller arrived at around 10:30 p.m., explained to intake staff that his surgeon had sent him to be admitted and left detailed notes in his patient file. After a nurse took his vitals, Miller was asked to sit in the waiting room. Around 2 a.m., a provider took him back to get a CT scan. Then Miller returned to the waiting room and sat for about another 4 hours before leaving, untreated. "We felt very ignored," said Miller's partner, "Ebony J" Wynn. "We are in an emergency, and it felt like nobody was listening." This is the exact scenario that emergency room nurse personnel dread. And yet, Miller's long wait at UC Medical Center's emergency room isn't out of the ordinary. The average time patients spent in Cincinnati emergency departments before leaving the visit was almost 3 hours between October 2024 and September 2025, according to new data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In Cincinnati, those visit times range between 2 and 4.5 hours.
The Cincinnati Exchange
UC nurses raise staffing concerns as new hires decline
UC Medical Center nurses are raising concerns about staffing after a sharp decline in the number of new nurses attending hospital orientations. The Registered Nurse Association of UC Medical Center presented a memorandum to UC Health addressing staffing, recruitment and retention. The union says Greater Cincinnati’s broader nursing shortage is contributing to the challenge, while UC continues expanding its nursing education pipeline and recruiting nurses.
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NorthStar Behavioral Health opens $18M facility in Cincinnati’s Walnut Hills
NorthStar Behavioral Health has opened an $18 million behavioral health facility at 2114 Reading Road in Cincinnati’s Walnut Hills. The 30,000-square-foot facility has 26 inpatient beds, outpatient services and a medication-assisted treatment clinic. The organization, formerly known as The Crossroads Center, expects the facility to serve more than 1,200 people annually. The opening also marks the nonprofit’s 2026 rebrand to NorthStar Behavioral Health.
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3 from Dayton among 18 Medicaid providers indicted on fraud charges
Three Dayton residents were among the 18 Medicaid providers indicted this week on fraud charges by the Ohio attorney general. Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson said that more than $355,000 in total was stolen from the healthcare program. The indictments were handed down in Franklin County after the investigation by...
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President of Kroger Health to Retire After 31 Years
Cincinnati — The Kroger Co. has announced that Colleen Lindholz, president of Kroger Health, will retire after more than three decades with the company. Lindholz joined Kroger as a pharmacist in the Cincinnati-Dayton division in 1995. From there, she held several pharmacy roles in the division, including manager, coordinator, sales promoter, recruiter and merchandiser. She was promoted to director of pharmacy sales and marketing in 2013 and president and CEO of the Little Clinic in 2015. Lindholz was named president of Kroger Health in 2017.
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Two Cincinnati home-healthcare workers accused of Medicaid fraud
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WXIX) -Two Cincinnati healthcare workers are facing criminal charges after state investigators accused them of billing Medicaid for services while clients were away or while traveling out of town, according to Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson. The charges come from a statewide investigation by the Ohio Attorney General’s...
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St. Elizabeth Healthcare unveils new high-tech operating rooms for cardiac surgery
CINCINNATI (WKRC) — St. Elizabeth Healthcare has unveiled new "state-of-the-art" operating rooms focused solely on cardiac surgery, aiming to speed care for patients as demand rises. The hospital said the high-tech operating rooms are designed for moments "when seconds count," with equipment, monitors and workspaces intentionally positioned so surgeons,...
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Mercy Health celebrates 75 years in Urbana
Mercy Health – Urbana Hospital is celebrating 75 years of serving the Urbana community. The hospital held a 75th anniversary ceremony Thursday in its outpatient wing, bringing together hospital representatives and community leaders to recognize the facility’s history and look ahead to the future. The hospital was first...
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Kroger Health’s Lindholz To Retire After 31 Years
Colleen Lindholz, president of Kroger Health, will retire after 31 years with The Kroger Co., the company announced Sept. 25. Lindholz joined Kroger in 1995 as a pharmacist in the Cincinnati-Dayton division, where she held several pharmacy roles, including manager, coordinator, sales promoter, recruiter and merchandiser. She was promoted to director of pharmacy sales and marketing in 2013 and to president and CEO of The Little Clinic in 2015. She was named president of Kroger Health in 2017.
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OhioHealth surgeon performs state’s 1st thumb surgery with new implant
Columbus-based OhioHealth orthopedic surgeon Stephen Berling, MD, in May became the first surgeon in Ohio to implant the Touch CMC 1 prosthesis. The thumb implant had been used more than 130,000 times in Europe before receiving FDA approval in 2025. Dr. Berling was among a group of surgeons trained to perform the procedure, according to a Sept. 25 news release.
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Central Ohio doctor one of the few trained in unique surgery