Integration & Physician Issues

Alexander Muckerman, from ECG Management Consultants, discusses concierge medicine's popularity among indepedent practice providers. 

Fifty-two physicians from Philadelphia's Drexel Medicine joined Tower Health Medical Group on Jan. 1, as part of an accelerated process to place Drexel staff in new roles after the Hahnemann University Hospital closure last year.

Houston Methodist Hospital created a "rejuvenation station" within its emergency room where staff can take breaks and get away from stress, according to Fox 26.

Des Moines (Iowa) University is the first medical school in the nation to require courses on mental healthcare, according to local NBC affiliate WHO TV.

Princeton University economists and Nobel Prize winners Anne Case, PhD, and Angus Deaton, PhD, have some choice words about physicians and their contribution to the healthcare cost problem in the U.S.

Trinity Health of New England, a nonprofit clinically integrated network of hospitals in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has expanded its care network, according to Mass Live.

Maine hospitals and health systems are working to develop internal policies for providers after a law went into effect last fall that allows patients with terminal illness to request life-ending medication, the Bangor Daily News reports.  

Most osteopathic medical students — a whopping 80 percent — reported a low sense of personal achievement in a recent study published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.

Nine cardiologists who left CHI Health's Nebraska Heart Institute in June 2018 to form their own practice can no longer perform procedures at CHI Health Nebraska Heart, the Lincoln Journal Star reports. 

Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health responded to concerns from surgeons and nurses about staff shortages by hiring more providers and increasing access to management, according to Crain's Detroit Business.