Integration & Physician Issues

Chicago-based Presence Medical Group, a part of Presence Health, has added Sage Medical Group, a seven-physician practice, to its network.

Palliative care practitioners are in short supply: There is one provider for every 1,300 people living with serious or life-threatening illness, compared with one cardiologist for every 71 people experiencing a heart attack.

Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center has partnered with the USC Institute of Urology, bringing one of the institute's physicians to the hospital campus.

Patient-centered interventions by community health workers improved the post-hospital care of patients of low socioeconomic status, including improving access to primary care follow-up appointments and reducing readmission rates, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Privately-insured patients, publicly-insured patients and non-insured patients reported different barriers to access to primary care, according to a study in the American Journal of Medical Quality.

Facilitated discussion groups for physicians at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., improved physician empowerment and reduced depersonalization, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

More than half (53 percent) of osteopathic medical students and recent graduates matched into a primary care residency program during the American Osteopathic Association match this year.

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As inpatient utilization continues to stagnate, the opportunity surrounding outpatient care grows.

While the majority of physicians — 64.2 percent — feel highly engaged and passionate in their work of treating patients, just 41.5 percent feel engaged with their organization, a Physician Wellness Services and Cejka Search survey found.