ProMedica Defiance Regional Hospital is a

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that is part of the

ProMedica Health System ProMedica is a non-profit health care system with locations in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. The system includes a health education and research center, the health maintenance organization Paramount Health Care, nursing homes, a local bu ...

. Their cafeteria is popular with local residents; between January and June 2004, the number of meals served on Sundays more than doubled.

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sponsored the creation of a heart facility there in 2006, the Sam Hornish Family Heart Center; by July 2007, it had already performed 700 procedures, saving residents trips to hospitals in

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. Also in 2006, Timothy Jakacki took over as president of the hospital, adding onto his duties as head of

Fostoria Community Hospital ProMedica Fostoria Community Hospital is a public hospital in Fostoria, Ohio that is part of the ProMedica Health System ProMedica is a non-profit health care system with locations in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. The system includes ...

, in a larger management shuffle by ProMedica; he succeeded John Horns, who was promoted to larger regional responsibilities. Jacacki complained of the difficulties of recruiting doctors in rural northwestern Ohio in a later interview; though specialist recruiting remained an issue, he emphasized that some family physicians actually preferred coming to smaller communities like Defiance because it enabled them to broaden their area of practice.

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