Care Coordination

Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins. When most people think of healthcare, it's systems like these and others that usually come to mind. In the future, however, that may change: The names of primary care offices, urgent care centers and…

Melville, N.Y.-based North American Partners in Anesthesia has partnered with Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Health insurer Viva Health and Baptist Health System — both based in Birmingham, Ala. — have partnered to offer a new Medicare Advantage HMO plan, Viva Medicare Me, according to a report from The Birmingham News.

Jefferson Health System, based in Radnor, Pa., has announced a multiyear shared savings agreement with Keystone First, a Blue Cross Medical Assistance product.

Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital's Safe Patient Flow Steering Committee was able to implement several process changes at the hospital for the 2009 fiscal year that improved patient flow, resolved adult emergency department overcrowding, post-anesthesia care unit delays and operating room…

A $35 million Veterans Affairs Health Care Center will begin to go up later this month in Montgomery, Ala., according to a report from the Montgomery Advertiser.

Orlando-based Florida Hospital is set to open two new women's centers as part of a $270 million women's health service line expansion, with one center in Winter Park, Fla., and the other in Celebration, Fla., according to a report from…

More than a third of emergency department patients visit the ED by referral, according to a study in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Springfield, Mo.-based CoxHealth has broken ground on the expansion project for Cox Medical Center Branson (Mo.).

You don't know what you don't know — that's how the old saying goes. Fortunately, for hospitals and health systems that have yet to launch or are in the process of launching an accountable care organization, two leaders from Peoria,…