MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – When the merger deal of Mon Health System and the CAMC Medical Center is complete the new major player in the healthcare industry will be called Vandalia Health.
On WAJR’s Talk of the Town president and CEO of Mon Health System the partnership will be focused on expanding the scope and scale of care while managing costs. After the merger, the new company will employ more than 12,000 people.
“A true merger, no one is buying each other were merging both organizations together- it’s called a member substitution,” Goldberg said. “We’re excited it’ll be a new board, I’ll be an executive vice president with Vandalia as well as president and CEO of Mon Health.”
One change will be the addition of the parent company name, Vandalia Health. Facilities throughout each healthcare system will retain their identities. The new entity will have a board made up of five people from Mon Health and 10 thers from CAMC.
“Vandalia will be the parent name, but we’ll still be Mon Preston, Mon Stonewall, Mon Health Medical Center, excetera,” Goldberg said. “And our market, same as CAMC is so strong, as it should be in the southern part of the state they don’t lose their name.”
CAMC has trained healthcare professionals since 1972 and now has 19 residency and fellowship programs that include more than 190 training positions.
“With their academic residency programs as they grow their own physicians that gives us an opportunity to keep them in the state,” Goldberg said. “And we’re another site that can benefit from those future doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants to stay and be part of Mon Health.”
Goldberg expects the merged healthcare company to be a resilient community-based organization that will be a stable provider of quality healthcare.
“How much stronger we are together than individually, how through the pandemic an integrated system with our four hospitals came to bare,” Goldberg said. “Look at what that did for Stonewall’s community, what that did for Preston’s community and it’s going be the same for us at CAMC.”
Mon Health and WVU Medicine jointly operate Mon EMS and will continue that relationship. Goldberg said he was open to any collaboration that lower costs and improve care for the residents in the communities they operate in.
“If we can collaborate to drive down cost, improve access, and improve outcomes why wouldn’t we do it together regardless of being independent and competitors?” Goldberg said. ” And we do compete in our markets, but we can be gentlemen and gentleladies in how we do it.”