Good Samaritan

Fierce Healthcare | June 28, 2018

The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society's members approved a plan to merge with Sanford Health this week, folding its long-term care services into Sanford's portfolio. Good Samaritan operates more than 200 senior care facilities—including skilled nursing, home health, and senior living—across 24 states and has nearly 20,000 employees. Those facilities would join Sanford's 44 hospitals and close to 300 clinics across nine states under the health system....

WellSpan Health | July 18, 2016

The Lebanon School District announced today that WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital has provided the district with a “Healthy Students, Healthy Community” Grant, which will be used to support the district’s goal of providing additional nursing services to students at the Lebanon Middle School. “The district has many funding challenges, and we have been in need of more staff to provide support for our students in areas of instruction, administration and also in nursing,&rdqu...

MedCity News | January 14, 2020

Digital health companies have caught the eye of prominent corporate VCs. But funding rounds aside, they’ve still struggled to gain traction in a risk-averse industry. Audience members at a panel during J.P. Morgan Healthcare asked, will it take a marriage of the technology and pharmaceutical industries for them to succeed? So many companies today aren’t just life science companies or technology companies. They’re some combination of the two, said Stacy Feld, head of Johns...

MedCity News | January 13, 2020

Healthcare analytics company Arcadia raised $29.5 million in new funding. The growth capital round was led by Cigna Ventures, with participation from past investors. Burlington, Massachusetts-based Arcadia integrates with more than 40 different electronic health record companies. It aggregates and analyzes records data to help hospitals and accountable care organizations meet metrics for value-based care. The company also develops tools to identify gaps in patient care and find ways to improve o...