CLEVELAND – Northeast Ohio addiction medicine experts, Dr. Ted Parran and Dr. Mykola Kolganov, have been named co-medical directors of Rosary Hall, the historic alcohol and drug treatment center housed at St. Vincent Charity Community Health Center (the former St. Vincent Charity Medical Center), a ministry of the Sisters of Charity Health System. Rosary Hall offers innovative treatments, personalized care plans, intensive outpatient rehabilitation and groundbreaking addiction treatment research.

“Dr. Parran has been advancing addiction treatment for more than four decades. He has helped guide Rosary Hall since 1988, working with thousands of patients to successfully transition from treatment into community and support networks on their road to recovery,” said Jan Murphy, president and CEO of the Sisters of Charity Health System. “With his extensive background in psychiatry and internal medicine, Dr. Kolganov is the perfect complement to Dr. Parran as they lead Rosary Hall in continuing a long tradition of addiction treatment in the heart of Cleveland.”

Dr. Parran is board certified in internal medicine and addiction medicine, and his group practice provides medical directorship services to several substance abuse treatment programs throughout Northeast Ohio.

He established the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Addiction Fellowship Program in 1994, and is a core faculty member in the University Hospitals Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship and the MetroHealth Medical Center Addiction Medicine Fellowship. Dr. Parran is a 1982 graduate of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Baltimore City Hospital of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

“It’s an honor to work with Dr. Kolganov as co-medical directors at Rosary Hall. The battle to be free from alcohol or drug dependency is never easy, but with a recovery process that’s compassionate, comprehensive and one of the best in the country, it can be won,” said Dr. Parran. “Together with every caregiver at Rosary Hall, we will continue to advance addiction treatment as we help patients and their families find the road to freedom.”

Dr. Kolganov joined the St. Vincent Charity Medical Center Internal Residency Program in 2017, where he was deeply involved with Rosary Hall and treating people with Alcohol and Substance Abuse Disorders (SUD). In 2020, he graduated from the residency program and joined the St. Vincent Charity Medical Center Addiction Medicine Fellowship; during that one-year program, he was focused on a number of projects related to addiction treatment and recovery. Prior to joining the St. Vincent Charity’s residency program, Dr. Kolganov was the medical director of the Ukrainian Center of Emergent Narcological Services. He also completed a Public and Community Psychiatry Fellowship at Case Western Reserve University to further his work in quality improvement of treatments, and an ongoing desire to advance the effectiveness of substance use treatment in Northeast Ohio. Dr. Kolganov received his medical degree in 2009 from the National Medical University in Kyiv, Ukraine. After graduation, Dr. Kolganov completed a psychiatry residency at Dr. Pavlov’s Kyiv City Psychiatric Hospital and practiced as a general psychiatrist specializing in patients with substance use disorders.

About Rosary Hall
Rosary Hall at St. Vincent Charity Community Health Center has been at the forefront of treating alcoholism and drug dependency since its founding in 1952. Its founder, Sister Ignatia Gavin, CSA, worked hand-in-hand with Dr. Robert Smith after he founded Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron, Ohio. Today, Rosary Hall continues to provide personalized care plans and intensive outpatient rehabilitation that are fueled by compassionate care as well as decades of proven experience in treatment.

About the Sisters of Charity Health System
The Sisters of Charity Health System was established in 1982 as the parent corporation for the sponsored ministries of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine in Ohio and South Carolina. The Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine is a congregation of women religious that, since its founding in 1851, continues a faith-based legacy of high-quality, compassionate care provided through its ministries, who are the heart and hands of the health system. The Sisters of Charity Health System solely owns St. Vincent Charity Community Health Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Mary Rose Sullivan
Executive Director, Marketing and Communications
Sisters of Charity Health System
msullivan@sistersofcharityhealth.org
216-696-8408/201-290-5316