Jan 20, 2023

Ventra Health Names President of Emergency and Hospital Medicine Darshan Patel formerly was senior vice president of emergency and hospital medicine and was responsible for the integration and operations of Dallas-based Ventra Health's legacy organizations, Gottlieb, abeo, and DuvaSawko, which merged, creating the Emergency and Hospital Medicine Division in 2021. Ventra Health CEO Steven Huddleston, who has been on the job less than two weeks, announced that Darshan Patel has been named president of emergency and hospital medicine. Patel formerly was senior vice president of emergency and hospital medicine and was responsible for the integration and operations of Dallas-based Ventra Health’s legacy organizations, Gottlieb, abeo, and DuvaSawko, which merged in 2021 to create Ventra. “Darshan is the right person at the right time to lead Ventra Health’s Emergency and Hospital Medicine business. His consulting background and subject matter expertise in revenue cycle align with our organizational objectives on integration and delivering exceptional results for clients,” Huddleston said in a statement. Leading into the next chapter Darshan Patel of Ventra Health [Photo: Ventra Health] Before Ventra Health, Patel worked with PwC, supporting hospitals, health systems, and physician groups on strategy, integration, and revenue cycle improvement initiatives, Ventra said. “I have been intimately involved in integrating the legacy organizations and look forward to leading the combined Ventra Health Emergency and Hospital Medicine Business into the next chapter,” Patel said in a statement. Ventra Health focuses on tech-enabled revenue cycle management, practice management, and advisory solutions for hospital-based physicians. It partners with private practices, hospitals, health systems, and physician management organizations to deliver market-leading solutions that solve healthcare providers’ most complex revenue and reimbursement issues. Backed by Varsity Healthcare Partners, Ventra Health represents the acquisitions of DuvaSawko, Gottlieb, and Abeo, who collectively served the emergency medicine, hospital medicine, and anesthesia markets, Ventra said. Get on the list. Dallas Innovates, every day. Sign up to keep your eye on what’s new and next in Dallas-Fort Worth, every day. One quick signup, and you’re done. Sylvia Trent-Adams has become the seventh president of The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth and the first black woman to lead a health science center in Texas. Her appointment was made formal this week by the school's board of regents. Adams was selected by the regents as the sole finalist for the position on Aug. 19 after an eight-month national search. State law requires university governing boards to name finalists for a presidency at least 21 days before making a permanent appointment. “From the first time I set foot on the HSC campus in January… The University of North Texas BioDiscovery Institute's $1.4 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation is seeding research in sustainable medicine—literally. “What we're thinking long-term is that if plants can store medicines in seeds, you eat the seeds, and the medicine is already contained. You don't have all these factories, you don't need any chemicals—it's just there and available,” said UNT lead researcher Elizabeth Skellam. The inaugural Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator is kicking off with 10 startups who come from all over the map—from Dallas to cities across the U.S. as well as Canada, Switzerland, and Germany. They'll be taking up residence in Fort Worth for an "intensive" 13-week mentorship program that makes each eligible for $120,000 in seed funding from the UNT Health Science Center and Goff Capital. “We believe that Fort Worth can become the physical health innovation capital of the world, and this is an incredible next step to making that vision a reality,” says Dr. Sylvia Trent-Adams, president of… Called Radian, the solution is powered by Lightbeam’s health equity AI engine and requires only a ZIP code to aggregate clinical and social data across more than 4,500 factors. It gives providers an executive-level view of health disparities within a community. TAGS: