Integration & Physician Issues

Patients of physicians employed by hospitals are more likely to receive inappropriate referrals for diagnostic imaging, according to a study published May 3 in Health Affairs.

Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., will name its new college of medicine in honor of Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., MD, co-founder of HCA Healthcare and former U.S. senator, the university said May 3. 

Brevard, N.C., leaders are urging the state's attorney general to investigate why a flood of physicians have left rural Transylvania Regional Hospital, according to WLOS.

As COVID-19 vaccine supply begins to catch up with demand in the U.S., local physicians are asking to play a larger role in the next phase of the vaccine rollout targeting hesitant populations, The Hill reported April 25.

A nearly 60-year-old hospital in rural Kentucky said the facility's age is keeping physicians away, but it hopes a new facility will help address the issue, according to WAVE, an NBC-affiliated TV station in Louisville, Ky. 

Aging physicians have a higher risk of cognitive impairment than their younger counterparts, and as more physicians work into later years, safeguards are needed to protect both patient safety and physician careers, according to a commentary published in the April…

University Hospital in Newark, N.J., closed a Burger King restaurant at the hospital after physicians campaigned for the change. 

The proportion of Black physicians in the healthcare workforce has only increased 4 percentage points in the last 120 years, according to a study published April 19 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

As a practicing OB-GYN in the 1980s, Lawrence Antonucci, MD, didn't necessarily aspire to become CEO of a health system.

Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial HealthCare is working with the Florida State University College of Medicine and real estate firm St. Joe's Co. to create a healthcare campus.