Green Bay – HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Regional Cancer Center with the experts of Green Bay Oncology (GBO) are pleased to announce a new and enhanced business alignment which began June 1, 2015.
Together, HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Regional Cancer Center and GBO have collaborated to provide cancer services for local communities for more than 35 years. This new alignment allows the two organizations to operate seamlessly and to work more closely with Prevea Health to improve the overall care of their patients.
“We are delighted to welcome Green Bay Oncology to our family,” said Therese Pandl, Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) – Eastern Wisconsin Division President and CEO. “We are touching more lives, advancing the mission and it is now a bigger team of people working together to transform cancer care and achieve our vision of providing health, healing and hope to Eastern Wisconsin.”
As part of this new alignment, HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Regional Cancer Center and GBO have entered into a professional services agreement (PSA) and a management services agreement (MSA). The new alignment is not a physician practice acquisition; it is a way to better provide care to patients in a changing health care environment.
“Working as a team, Green Bay Oncology and HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Regional Cancer Center, along with Prevea Health, are able to provide higher-quality and more seamless medical, radiation and surgical oncological care to patients all across Northeast Wisconsin,” said Dr. David Groteluschen, Green Bay Oncology President. “We are on the leading edge of innovative oncology care.”
In keeping with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for hospital-based billing, all Wisconsin GBO locations have become departments of HSHS St. Vincent Hospital.
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About HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Regional Cancer Center
HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Regional Cancer Center includes the largest group of oncologists in Northeast Wisconsin and provides patients access to state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment technologies, as well as multiple supportive therapies at HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center and HSHS St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay, and HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital in Oconto Falls. The program has demonstrated quality and outcomes commensurate with leading cancer centers across the country. It partners with community hospitals throughout Northeast Wisconsin through the HSHS St. Vincent Cancer Care Collaborative to offer patients quality, compassionate care closer to home. HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Regional Cancer Center has been accredited by the Commission on Cancer for more than 55 years – currently recognized as an Integrated Network Cancer Program – the highest level of accreditation possible for a non-teaching hospital. With decades of experience and a passion to provide patients the best care possible, HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Regional Cancer Center works directly with the National Cancer Institute to bring people in the Northeast Wisconsin region access to the newest, leading-edge cancer clinical trials, drugs and prevention studies. HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Regional Cancer Center, Marshfield Clinic and Gundersen Medical Foundation work together as WiNCORP, a division of the National Cancer Institute’s National Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP). In 2014, the NCI awarded WiNCORP a $12.5 million grant to expand their clinical research over the next five years.
About Hospital Sisters Health System
Hospital Sisters Health System’s mission is to reveal and embody Christ’s healing love for all people through our high quality Franciscan health care ministry. Sponsored by the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis, HSHS provides state-of-the-art health care to our patients and is dedicated to serving all people, especially the most vulnerable, at each of our 14 Local Systems and physician practices in Illinois (Belleville, Breese, Decatur, Effingham, Highland, Litchfield, Springfield and Streator) and Wisconsin (Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Oconto Falls, Sheboygan, and two in Green Bay). For more information about HSHS, visit www.hshs.org.
About Prevea Health
Prevea Health’s mission is to care for people with passion, pride, and respect. Founded in 1996, Prevea Health partners with HSHS St. Vincent Hospital and HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center in Green Bay, HSHS St. Nicholas Hospital in Sheboygan, and HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital in Oconto Falls, to provide access to more than 200 physicians in more than 60 specialty areas. Prevea has more than 35 locations throughout the greater Green Bay area and in Luxemburg, Marinette, Oconto, Oconto Falls, Lena, Gillett, Suring, Mountain, Plymouth, Pulaski, Seymour, Sheboygan and Sturgeon Bay. For more information, visit www.prevea.com.
About Green Bay Oncology
Green Bay Oncology founder Paul D. Koch, MD, was Northeast Wisconsin’s first medical oncologist, beginning his practice in 1976. Green Bay Oncology is the region’s most experienced group of cancer experts, with eight medical oncology physicians and seven nurse practitioners, plus a support staff of more than 125. All Green Bay Oncology physicians are double and triple board certified, demonstrating an extraordinary commitment to being relentless in the fight against cancer. In the U.S., board certification is a voluntary process that illustrates a physician’s exceptional expertise in a particular specialty.
Today, Green Bay Oncology is the region’s largest group of certified hematologists and medical oncologists, serving thousands of patients each year through its Green Bay locations at HSHS St. Vincent Hospital, HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center and the Hemophilia Outreach Center. We believe that the people of Northeast Wisconsin and Upper Michigan should not have to travel a great distance to receive the very best cancer care. For decades, we have brought the nation’s leading treatment options to Green Bay and surrounding communities. There are also locations in Sturgeon Bay, Oconto Falls, Marinette, Escanaba and Manistique, Michigan. Over 40,000 patients have been treated by Green Bay Oncology.
In 2014, Green Bay Oncology was named a Guardian of Excellence Award winner by Press Ganey acknowledging top-performing facilities that consistently achieved the 95th percentile in Patient Experience. The Guardian of Excellence Award is a nationally-recognized symbol of achievement in health care. Green Bay Oncology consistently sustained performance in the top 5% of Press Ganey’s 11,000 health care clients for each reporting period during the course of one year.
Green Bay Oncology leads the region in providing access to new treatments and improved outcomes through the HSHS St. Vincent Regional Cancer Center and WiNCORP. The providers have a commitment to improving the health and well-being of others by bringing the most advanced and promising new cancer treatment options to the people of our region and by contributing to the discovery of new treatments and prevention strategies.
For more information about Green Bay Oncology, visit www.gboncology.com.