Rady Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital of Orange County have officially merged to create Rady Children's Health, a new healthcare organization serving over 6 million people in Southern California. The merger, which has been in the works for over a year, is contingent upon the new organization meeting 24 conditions, including commitments to continue serving patients on state-sponsored health insurance and providing charity care.
Rady Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Orange County unveiled a new logo Tuesday, commemorating the approval of a merger between the two organizations. On Tuesday, just before noon, executives from Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego and Children’s Hospital of Orange County jointly announced the completion of a merger that has been more than a year in the making.
They also unveiled a new logo to memorialize Rady Children’s Health, the new name of the combined organization covering a Southern California region that is home to more than 6 million people, 1.3 million of them children.The merger is contingent upon the new hospital group complying with a list of 24 conditions, including commitments to continue serving those on state-sponsored health insurance and providing charity care in cases where treatment is unaffordable for affected families. The new logo, which features a smiling bear and Rady’s long-standing playful use of a kite as an apostrophe, will be used in digital communications immediately though no firm timeline for its use in hospital signage has yet been announced. Executives for both organizations were emphatic in an interview early this week that very little will change regarding the operation of existing facilities. Medical staffs will retain their own bylaws and caregivers will continue reporting to existing management structures. “We’ve heard, ‘are there layoffs, are we closing locations?’,” said Dr. Patrick Frias, Rady’s chief executive officer. “We want to make it very clear to families and employees that no, we aren’t, and they aren’t. “The access to the locations that we have and the care and the workforce is the same today as it was six days ago, and we want to reassure the community of that.” Rady’s medical center campus, next to Sharp Memorial Hospital in Serra Mesa, is 63 miles south of CHOC’s Mission Viejo campus and nearly 80 miles closer to the border than its main campus in Orange
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