Camden, S.C.-based KershawHealth has added a two-physician general surgery department after integrating the practices of two physicians, according to a Chronicle Independent report.
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Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare has become an affiliate of MD Anderson Cancer Network, a program of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
San Diego Physicians Medical Group, Encinitas, Calif.-based Connect-the-Docs Multi Specialty Network and La Jolla, Calif.-based XIMED Medical Group have joined to create a physician group partnering with San Diego-based Scripps Health, according to an article on the KUSI News website.
Birmingham, Ala.-based Baptist Health and American Family Care, an urgent and family care company also based in Birmingham, announced that they will partner to provide primary and urgent care services throughout Central Alabama.
A recent analysis of 2012 Medicare payment data for hospital-based physician services found that while non hospital-based physicians outnumber hospitalists when it comes to providing hospital care, hospitals perform more hospital-based services compared to non-hospital based physicians.
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The Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded $83.4 million in funding to support primary care residency programs at 60 teaching health centers.
According to a new report by Jackson Healthcare, the use of physician assistants has increased from 25 percent to 30 percent since 2012.
Jackson Healthcare conducted a national survey of satisfied and dissatisfied physicians and published 51 statistics on the differences in the attitudes and outlooks of the two.
Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Community Health Services and Northumberland, Pa.-based SUN Home Health and Hospice announced they have received regulatory approval for the comprehensive agreement in which SUN Home Health and Hospice is now a part of Geisinger Health System.
Houston Methodist Hospital and College Station-based Texas A&M University Health Science Center have announced a partnership to develop new health professions degree programs.