Care Coordination

Hospitals and health systems interested in building or strengthening their ambulatory care networks need to be prepared to challenge the status quo, according to Mark Coughlin, senior vice president of advisory services at Hammes Company. Ambulatory settings are quite different…

San Diego-based Sharp Community Medical Group, an independent practice association with more than 700 participating physicians, and Aetna have announced an accountable care collaboration.

HCA East Florida, a Fort Lauderdale subsidiary of Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corp. of America, has filed a certificate of need with Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration to build a 100-bed teaching hospital with Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Fla.

Anesthesiologists and other physicians must soon decide whether or not to participate in the health insurance exchange health plans that are seeking to sign them up, since coverage under the health insurance plans will begin as early as Jan. 1,…

Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington, N.C., has opened the first phase of a $30 million emergency department addition and renovation, according to a Times-News report.

Hospitals need to start getting directly involved with employers in the sponsorship of worksite-based health clinics if they want to preserve market share and the opportunity to lead the way in population health management, according to Mike La Penna, founder…

SSM Urgent Care-St. Louis announced that it will open a fourth urgent care center in St. Charles, Mo.

Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital has announced it will break ground in January 2014 on a new children's hospital in The Woodlands, a community within the Houston metro area, according to a report from Community Impact Newspaper.

Nearly three-quarters — 71 percent — of physicians in Massachusetts are either very or somewhat familiar with accountable care organizations, according to the Massachusetts Medical Society's "2013 Physician Workforce Study."

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine announced the opening of Penn Medicine Washington Square in Philadelphia that will serve as a hub of outpatient care for Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.