Kaleida Health in the News

Kaleida Health and the two unions representing two-thirds of the health system's workforce have agreed to a 30-day contract extension as the two sides continue to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement.

Dr. David P. Hughes, the executive vice president for strategy and partnerships at Kaleida Health, died Tuesday.

For more than a decade, hospitals and health care providers have been working to adapt how they provide services as part of a shift from fee-for-service to value-based or quality incentive programs.

Western New York is blessed with a growing Buffalo Niagara Campus, which during the last decade has added a medical school, more researchers and an internationally known stroke center. Still, residents in the region collectively remain the least healthy in all of New York State.

Time equals brain cells, and the sooner a patient can be treated, the more brain function can be restored and saved. That’s why a new 4D CT imaging system was so important at Gates Vascular Institute at Buffalo General Medical Center.

Upper Allegheny Health System, a part of Kaleida Health, has identified new leadership, naming two internal candidates as interim president and interim chief operating officer.

The phone lines, as of late, have been busy at primary care offices across Western New York, with calls from patients testing positive for Covid-19 coming in at an increasing clip as they work through stockpiles of at-home test kits.

Dr. Jill Owens, a longtime physician from Bradford, Pa., on Monday was named interim president of Upper Allegheny, which includes Olean General Hospital and Bradford Regional Medical Center.

Kaleida Health's John R. Oishei Children's Hospital in Buffalo got a major grant Friday that will boost its efforts toward health equity and workforce development.

For the last few years, John R. Oishei Children's Hospital has been pushing to be designated as an "enhanced safety net hospital."