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DAYTON -- Medicare payments for hospital-based providers of proton beam radiation therapy will increase 15 percent in 2012, creating a more hospitable business environment for the fledgling industry. This payment increase will facilitate the development of much- needed proton therapy centers throughout the country," American Shared Hospital Services Chairman and CEO Dr. Ernest Bates said in a prepared release. San Francisco-based ASHS is partnering with Kettering Medical Center to bring the cutting-edge cancer treatment to the Miami Valley, potentially as early as spring 2014. The facility will be a hospital-based proton therapy center, which generally command higher rates than a freestanding facility.
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Kettering Medical Center expects to break ground this year on a major expansion project after reaching a settlement with attorney and hospital neighbor Gregory Engler. The expansion could include an outpatient surgery center, proton cancer center, parking garage and office building east of Southern Boulevard.
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KETTERING -- Kettering Medical Center on Monday, Aug. 30, opens its new entrance, which will also double as the entry to the new Benjamin and Marian Schuster Heart Hospital, set to open Oct. 4. The lobby, which has more of the feel of a hotel than of a hospital, is meant to send a psychological signal that visitors are entering a healing environment. It's the first renovation to the hospital's lobby since 1983.
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On the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 21, officials from Kettering Medical Center will dedicate the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Heart Hospital, a new $77 million facility. That evening, KMC will cap the occasion in another building named after the local philanthropic couple when Diana Ross headlines the Heart to Heart benefit at the Schuster Center. Ross has sold more than 100 million records as a solo artist and a member of the Supremes. She performs at 8:30 p.m.
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KETTERING -- Kettering Medical Center expects a partnership with an infectious disease diagnostic company to improve patient care and save the hospital money through more rapid diagnoses. Huntsville, Ala.-based Diatherix, Inc., which employs 45 people and had about $9.4 million in sales in 2009 with projected sales of $30 million this year, is leasing space and the equivalent of two full-time employees at the hospital to test for infectious diseases such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile (C-diff) in patients. Test results always are available within 24 hours.
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KETTERING -- Income tax receipts have rebounded slightly for Kettering in 2010, and the city could get another boost in the future if Kettering Medical Center moves forward with its plan to build an outpatient surgery center, proton beam therapy center, multilevel parking garage and an office building across Southern Boulevard from the existing hospital. Kettering collected $37.1 million in income tax receipts in 2007 and $38.2 million in 2008 before dropping 7.6 percent to $35.3 million in 2009. Receipts through November are up 1 percent from last year, but that still puts the city behind its 2007-08 pace.
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Frank Perez came to the United States from Cuba two months before the Cuban missile crisis in October of 1962. He was 18, Fidel Castro's revolution had interrupted his schooling, and he became head of his family while his father stayed behind. I realize the difficulty of negotiating the health-care system in a foreign language," Perez says now at 62, the president and CEO of the four-hospital Kettering Medical Center Network. It's a valuable perspective that he brings this year to the board of directors of the American Hospital Association's Institute for Diversity.
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KETTERING -- Kettering Medical Center plans to break ground this fall on a comprehensive cancer center as it jockeys to become a national leader in treating the disease. The multidisciplinary cancer center -- part of the first phase of the development of 34 acres across Southern Boulevard from the main hospital -- will almost certainly include proton beam therapy. The pricey but promising method for fighting cancer currently is available at just nine locations throughout the country, and is not yet offered in .
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KETTERING -- Joi Pastrick believes she's alive today thanks to undergoing Gamma Knife treatment for breast cancer that metastasized to her brain. The 40-year-old Dayton woman had her more recent Gamma Knife procedure last week at Kettering Medical Center.
