Green Bay – HSHS St. Vincent Regional Cancer Center and Green Bay Oncology (GBO) are pleased to announce that they are beginning the process for a new business alignment. Together, our organizations have collaborated to provide cancer services for our communities for more than 35 years. It is now time to take the next step to align ourselves more seamlessly and to work more closely with Prevea Health to improve overall care delivery for the benefit of our patients.
In order to do this, HSHS St. Vincent Regional Cancer Center and GBO have entered into a professional services agreement (PSA) and a management services agreement (MSA) which will go into effect on June 1, 2015. The new alignment is not a physician practice acquisition; it is a way to better provide care to our patients in our changing health care environment.
“Together, we are looking forward to this next step which will allow us to jointly further develop our cancer service line, including medical and radiation oncology,” said Therese Pandl, Hospital Sisters Health System Eastern Wisconsin Division President and CEO. “We are stronger together operating a coordinated platform to effectively advance cancer care.”
“HSHS St. Vincent Regional Cancer Center and Green Bay Oncology have long-established relationships with many cancer care providers in Eastern Wisconsin. We both remain committed to them and the patients we serve,” said Dr. David Groteluschen, Green Bay Oncology President. “This new business model is better suited to the evolving health care environment, and as a result we will be able to take our expert care to more patients and improve each episode of care from a value and quality standpoint.”
In keeping with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements for hospital-based billing, all Wisconsin GBO locations will become departments of HSHS St. Vincent Hospital and GBO nurses, laboratory staff and medical assistants will become HSHS St. Vincent Hospital colleagues. They will continue in their current roles to be managed by GBO.
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About HSHS St. Vincent Hospital Regional Cancer Center
HSHS St. Vincent 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. The program has documented survival rates that meet or exceed cancer centers across the nation. 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 Regional Cancer Center has been accredited by the Commission on Cancer for more than 55 years – 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 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 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 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, Iron Mountain, 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.