One step closer to integration

 Dear SLUCare and School of Medicine faculty, staff, residents, fellows and students:

Thank you for attending our recent Town Halls about the integration of SLUCare with SSM Health, and for sharing your thoughts and questions with your chairs, supervisors and managers.

As a follow-up to our April 28 message to you, we write to inform you that SSM Health and Saint Louis University have now signed a definitive agreement to fully integrate SLUCare with SSM Health.

All SLUCare faculty and staff will be offered employment by SSM Health, including competitive, market-based compensation and benefits.

Our goal is for the integration of SLUCare faculty and staff to occur on July 1, 2022, pending regulatory and other necessary approvals. Residents and fellows employed by SLUCare will transition to SSM Health employment in July, 2023.

The signing of our definitive agreement means that many of your questions about benefits and compensation can be answered.

Beginning Monday, May 9, Human Resources representatives from SSM Health will meet with faculty and staff to review SSM’s benefits packages for SLUCare personnel. Sessions will be offered at various times to accommodate clinic assignments. We will provide you with the meeting details this weekend via email.

SLUCare’s integration with SSM Health will create one of the region’s leading integrated healthcare networks with an Academic Medical Group (SLUCare Physician Group) and a Community Medical Group. It will expand access to high-quality, Catholic health care to more patients across the St. Louis region and will allow SLUCare to grow and flourish.

SLU will receive a substantial contribution that will enable a new transformational endowment for the School of Medicine. This endowment will strengthen and support our core missions of education and research, provide resources for the appointment of permanent chairs, and help to develop new state-of-the-art educational facilities.

We are excited to enter this stage of our partnership with SSM Health.

Sincerely,

Fred P. Pestello, Ph.D.