The board for Olney, Ill.-based Richland Memorial Hospital unanimously approved an agreement to make the hospital a clinical affiliate of the Urbana, Ill.-based Carle Foundation health system, according to The News-Gazette.
Integration & Physician Issues
Lehigh Valley Physician Group, a nonprofit division of Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network, merged with a local orthopedic practice, effective Dec. 1, according to Lehigh Valley Business.
Fort Washington, Pa.-based Noble Health Alliance plans to add two physician practices to its clinically integrated network, adding 64 physicians to an existing network of more than 1,800 physicians in the greater Philadelphia area, according to The Herald.
The American Board of Internal Medicine determined online physician ratings written by patients do not reflect standard measures of clinical quality, according to a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
About a quarter of American families are visiting physicians less frequently and have less access to name brand drugs due to limitations from health insurance plans, according to a Radius Global Market survey.
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Hospital and health system CFOs and other executives believe the rate of physician employment will continue, but 76 percent don't expect positive ROI as a result, according to Healthcare Financial Management Association's most recent "Executive Survey on Hospital-Physician Affiliation Strategies."
In her final days as dean of Detriot-based Wayne State Medical School last month, Valerie Parisi, MD, fired the university physician group's CEO for unspecified reasons, as the university continues to assess its faculty practice plan, according to Crain's Detroit…
Incessant alarms from cardiac monitors, patient call buttons and IVs may lead nurses to tune out noise in a phenomenon called "alarm fatigue." This experience can be life-threatening — the Joint Commission reported 80 alarm-related deaths between January 2009 and…
Discharging homeless patients on the street used to be the norm for most hospitals, according to The Dallas Morning News. In fact, two Dallas hospitals were recently cited by federal regulators for discharging homeless patients and placing them in "immediate…
UC San Diego Health System and Imperial (Calif.) Valley Family Care Medical Group today announced an affiliation agreement to improve patient access to care in the Imperial Valley region.