In story featuring the use of hyperbaric oxygen treatment, The Plain Dealer quotes Dr. Joseph Sopko, a pulmonologist and chairman of the department of medicine at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in Cleveland, regarding the hospital’s introduction of the service in the community. St. Vincent Charity Medical Center installed its hyperbaric oxygen chambers in 1993, when no other hospital in the city had one.

Today, St. Vincent Charity medical Center, which is a ministry of the Sisters of Charity Health System, is the only Cleveland-area hospital that takes emergency cases 24 hours a day.

WCPN, the NPR affiliate in Cleveland, also picked up the story.

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In late 2010, University Hospitals and the Sisters of Charity Health System jointly announced a five-year, $100-million strategic plan for St. John Medical Center that includes the modernization and expansion of the then 29-year-old facility. Read more about this in a feature story published by MD News on January 31, 2011.

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Recently published in The Plain Dealer, an op/ed by Leslie Koblentz, M.D. of St. Vincent Charity Medical Center shines light on mental illness and its treatment in response to the tragedy in Tucson, Arizona.

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Sister Mary Elizabeth Noel is marking not one but two major milestones in her life this year. Fellow Dominican nun Sister Theresa Damicone said Sister Noel celebrated 75 years of religious life on May 3 and her 100th birthday Tuesday.

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Dr. John Collis and Dr. Louis Keppler, co-directors of the St. Vincent Charity Hospital Spine & Orthopedic Institute, were on Good Company on Friday with Fred Griffith. Watch the interview here.