Physician-Owned Hospital in South Dakota Sees Ban as Recruiting Tool

While some see the ban on new physician-owned hospitals in the healthcare reform bill as an impediment to industry growth, to at least some existing hospitals there is a silver lining, according to a report in the Sioux City Journal.

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Officials at the Siouxland Surgery Center, a physician-owned hospital in Dakota Dunes, S.D., see the provisions prohibiting doctors from opening their own hospitals and limiting new construction at existing facilities as a potential recruiting tool to bring new physicians to their community, according to the Journal.

Greg Miner, Siouxland Surgery Center’s administrator, told the Journal that as one of only 200 physician-owned hospitals in the country, his hospital is in a good position to attract physicians who see the appeal of a more efficient care setting where they have greater control than they would in a hospital setting.

Read the Sioux City Journal story on physician-owned hospitals.

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