Officials said the multispecialty physician practice, Brown Physicians, will employ more than 500 physicians, making it one of the largest physician groups after Providence-based Lifespan, whose physician practice employs 563 physicians, according to the report. The partnership will be effective July 1.
Officials said in statement to the Providence Journal the goal of the partnership and physician practice is to pool the organizations’ research, clinical care and administrative functions.
The Providence-based organizations involved in the partnership include:
- The Neurology Foundation
- University Emergency Medicine Foundation
- University Surgical Associates
- Brown Urology
- Brown Dermatology
All physicians joining the physician practice are already employees of the university.
The idea for a potential partnership began nearly five years ago, officials said, but was not meaningfully discussed until the university offered a “substantial” investment to fund the collaboration 18 months ago.
The physician group will be governed by a board of directors, which will include the presidents of each organization, an undetermined Brown University official and Jack Elias, MD, senior vice president for health affairs and dean of medicine and biological sciences at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
“Most faculty practice plans are run by the university or hospital they’re under,” Dr. Elias told the Providence Journal. “In this case, it’s run by the physicians because we have confidence that we have one of the most visionary [groups of] physicians in the country.”
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