More health systems are increasing their presence in one of the state’s fastest growing counties. Mercy Health Partners, which owns Mercy Health Fairfield Hospital and UC Health, which owns West Chester Hospital. Six health systems already operate hospitals serving Butler County in addition to the medical center: Kettering Health Network of Dayton, which acquired Fort Hamilton Hospital last year Premier Health Partners of Dayton, which operates Atrium Medical Center McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital of Oxford Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, which has a campus in Liberty Twp. Greg Owens, chairman of the Butler County Medical Center Board. “The facility will continue to offer Butler County residents the same convenience, comfort and efficiency, plus we are able to add emergency, cardiology and oncology care that expands our ability to serve the community,” said Dr. The medical center in 2000 was the first registered, physician-owned, multi-specialty, surgery center in the state and has grown to a 10-bed hospital, medical office building and outpatient services including imaging, a sleep center and physical therapy, according to its website. “Through the institutes and Butler County Medical Center, our goal is to provide models that much more closely align physicians and hospitals and care,” he said. TriHealth also hopes to attract more physicians to the center, Oliphant said. Oliphant said TriHealth plans to expand heart and cancer care at the center on Hamilton-Mason Road and add a 15-bed emergency department in 2013. “Our focus is really on growing the capabilities of that site.” “We view it as really an opportunity to build on something that has been in Butler County and has a good reputation and outstanding and good physicians,” he said. TriHealth’s purchase of a major outpatient facility and small hospital here is part of the system’s efforts to expand services in the area, Oliphant said.
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