Fall CHPN Newsletter 2025

Welcome to the 3rd Edition of the Cincy Healthcare Professionals Newsletter! 🙂 

We're back with the Fall edition of the CHPN Newsletter! 🍂

From major system expansions to startup funding announcements, there's been no shortage of news worth celebrating (and discussing). As always, our mission stays the same: building Cincinnati into a thriving, productive, and attractive hub where healthcare professionals can build incredible careers and companies while making our community healthier.

Thanks for being part of this journey—your support makes this network what it is.

Ready to catch up on everything that happened this fall? Let's go!

Featured Story

• OneNKY Center Opens in Covington with Life Sciences Innovation Hub – Northern Kentucky celebrated the grand opening of the OneNKY Center, a $26 million, 47,000-square-foot facility in Covington that unites the region's leading growth organizations under one roof and establishes Kentucky's first dedicated life sciences laboratory. The four-story building at the foot of the Roebling Bridge houses ten tenants including the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, meetNKY, OneNKY Alliance, and the Northern Kentucky Bar Association, realizing a vision first proposed by Corporex founder Bill Butler in 1981. The second floor features LifeSciKY, a 15,000-square-foot incubator lab that is the only facility of its kind between Lexington and Columbus, currently partnering with three startup companies from Louisville, Knoxville, and Houston working on therapeutic cancer treatments and solutions to the IVF crisis. The project was funded through a combination of a $15 million state grant, $8.7 million in construction bonds backed by Kenton County, and nearly $1 million in philanthropic donations. Read more

Policy & Public Health Watch

• Federal Budget Reconciliation Law Threatens Coverage for Hundreds of Thousands of Ohioans – The 2025 budget reconciliation law, signed into law in July as the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," is projected to increase Ohio's uninsured population by 340,000 to 460,000 people by 2034, according to Kaiser Family Foundation state-by-state estimates. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the law will reduce federal spending on health care by over $1 trillion and lead to a 10 million increase in the country's uninsured population, with Ohio projected to lose $5.62 billion in Medicaid funding over 10 years, the seventh highest loss nationwide. The law implements new Medicaid work requirements, more frequent eligibility checks, and immigration restrictions, with most coverage losses expected to roll out gradually over the next decade. Read more

CHPN Events & Networking

Upcoming CHPN Gatherings

🗓️ Thursday, November 6 : CHPN Coffee & Connections

• Join us at the Solare Cafe inside Element Eatery on MedPace's campus for some coffee and a good chat about healthcare! We’ll start around 7:30am and hang around until 9:00am. Feel free to pop in and say hi! [RSVP here]

🗓️ Early December, 2025 : “Festivus” - featuring clinicians!

• Continuing our tradition, we'll have clinicians from MedOne as well as Dr. Andrew Gillihan from Alinea Performance join us in early December for “Festivus” - where we come together in good fun for an annual “airing of greivances” about EMRs and other technology that clinicians have a lot to get off their chests!

Other Industry Events Worth Attending

📍 THIS WEEK: Startup Cincy Week – Cincinnati is buzzing with techies and startup founders sharing what they’re building here in town! Check out the agenda here!

📍 Wednesday, October 8 @ 5:00pm– Happy hour hosted by LifeSciKY at Hukon Loung @ The Marketer Collaborative you won’t want to miss! Details here.

📍 Tuesday, November 4 – Cincinnati AI in Healthcare event at 1819 Innovation Hub to “to explore how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the healthcare industry!” Details here.

Industry & Startup Updates

Quick hits on Cincinnati’s evolving healthcare and life sciences ecosystem.

• TriHealth Expands to Six Hospitals with Clinton Memorial Acquisition, Appoints Banking Executive as Board Chair – TriHealth completed the acquisition of Clinton Memorial Hospital in Wilmington in September, renaming it TriHealth Clinton Regional Hospital and expanding the system to six acute care hospitals. Concurrent with the acquisition, TriHealth announced significant board leadership changes, with Ralph "Mike" Michael elected as Board Chair. Michael serves as Chairman of the Cincinnati Region of Fifth Third Bank and previously held senior executive positions at Fifth Third Bank, U.S. Bank, and PNC Financial Services Group, including roles in private asset management and wealth management. The appointment of a finance executive with extensive banking and M&A experience to the board's top position, combined with TriHealth's stated strategy to expand accessible, high-quality care across Southwest Ohio and surrounding areas, may signal the system's continued interest in strategic acquisitions and growth opportunities. TriHealth plans to fully integrate the Clinton County facility over the next 18 months, extending infrastructure and support services including information systems, revenue cycle, and supply chain. Read more

• Sense Neuro Diagnostics Raises Over $17 Million to Advance Brain Injury Detection Technology – Sense Neuro Diagnostics, a University of Cincinnati tech transfer startup supported by the 1819 Innovation Hub, has secured more than $17 million in total funding to advance its NeuroHawk system, a rapid brain-scanning device designed to detect strokes and traumatic brain injuries in under four minutes. Founded by UC physicians Opeolu Adeoye, George Shaw, Matthew Flaherty, and Joseph Clark, the company emerged from UC's Technology Accelerator for Commercialization (now the UC Venture Lab) in 2017 and received early backing from Bearcat Ventures, UC's student-managed venture fund, which selected Sense Neuro for its third investment. The portable, non-invasive wireless headset uses radio frequency technology to scan the brain and detect neurological events, with applications ranging from emergency departments and ambulances to military field units and remote disaster zones. Clinical trials are currently underway at over 20 sites across the United States, Canada, and India, with the company recently securing a $2 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to support military applications. Read more

• Genetesis Sells Magnetocardiography Assets After Decade of Innovation in Cardiac Diagnostics – Mason-based Genetesis, a medical device company pioneering magnetocardiography (MCG) technology for cardiac diagnostics, announced the sale of its key MCG assets to a strategic partner that will continue advancing the technology into clinical practice. Founded by Peeyush Shrivastava, Vineet Erasala, Manny Setegn, and Chandan Srivastava, Genetesis spent a decade developing biomagnetism-based cardiac diagnostic solutions with support from investors, scientific advisors including clinical trial investigators, and the City of Mason. Read more

• Two UC-Backed Startups Secure State Funding to Advance Women's Health Technologies – ComfortCath and MetaMol Theranostics, two University of Cincinnati tech transfer startups, each received $200,000 grants from Ohio's Technology Validation and Startup Fund as part of a $1.4 million statewide investment in innovative technologies announced in February. Mason-based ComfortCath is developing a catheter designed to help women with chronic urinary retention urinate without needing a drainage tube or bag, using its award for product prototyping, design finalization and resource retention. Milford-based MetaMol Theranostics is commercializing a breast cancer diagnostic device that detects the hOPN-c protein to assess breast cancer risk and boost detection rates, potentially increasing patient survival chances. Both startups emerged from UC's 1819 Innovation Hub ecosystem, receiving support from the Venture Lab startup incubator and the Technology Transfer team, which is ranked among the top 100 producers of utility patents in the United States. Read more

• Heylo Launches as First Cincinnati Startup from Vessel's Studio Fund Backed by O.H.I.O. Fund – Heylo, a Greater Cincinnati-based remote support platform for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, launched as the first startup from Vessel's Flagship Studio Fund, which secured backing from The Ohio High-Growth Investment Opportunities (O.H.I.O.) Fund. The venture studio fund, led by managing partners including Cincinnati-based Corey Myers, plans to launch six operator-led startups over three years, providing 24/7 virtual assistance for I/DD service providers and caregivers through software, hardware, and high-touch service. Heylo has already secured early customers in Kansas and New York and received state innovation grants. Read more

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