Sisters of Charity Health System Appoints Orlando L. Alvarez Jr. to Head Physician Strategy and Business D...( CLEVELAND May 28 -- As the Sisters...),Health

CLEVELAND, May 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the Sisters of Charity Health System continues its strategic growth, it has made a significant investment in its commitment to growing its physician collaboration strategies. Key to this strategy is the hiring of Orlando L. Alvarez Jr. in the new position of senior vice president of physician strategy and business development. Alvarez begins his position May 28.

"As we move through this transition in our organization, the Sisters of Charity Health System is focused on building a strong leadership base that will help us to lead our ministries into the future," says Sister Judith Ann Karam, CSA, president and CEO of the Sisters of Charity Health System. "A critical component of that growth is the importance of physician collaboration and integration among our five hospitals. Orlando Alvarez is going to be a key player as we look at how we link with our physician community and forge a strategic direction for the future. We are excited to have him join our team."

"The Sisters of Charity Health System is committed to its physician relationships and is an organization with a vision of collaboration. I will help create a context for this collaboration working closely with physicians and system leadership to develop and execute strategies that will further the mission and vision of the ministry," says Alvarez, who comes to Cleveland from Phoenix, where he was regional vice president, business development for Vanguard Health System. There he was the executive leader of business development for Abrazo Health Care, which included five acute care hospitals, five imaging centers, a Medicare and a Medicaid health plan and a multi-physician medical group.

Alvarez sees his role as leveraging assets. "How do we as an organization take our assets, be they relational, financial or physical, and leverage them into one clear strategic direction? And how do we do that with ke
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