Integration & Physician Issues

Hospitals are having a difficult time filling their empty physician and nurse slots.

A majority — 72 percent — of Americans prefer to see a physician over a nonphysician provider for their medical care, according to a survey conducted by Iposos, a private research think tank.

More hospitals are calling on their physicians to take active roles in the community and become the faces that represent the organization to prospective patients and other physicians. As a part of this effort, hospitals are sending physicians out into…

Within six months, the number of hospitals and health systems that  joined or created an ACO grew by roughly 5 percent, according to Premier's 2013 Fall Economic Outlook.

The rate of hospitals acquiring oncology practices has increased in recent years, according to a report by Alvarez & Marsal Holdings.

The following states have the most physicians retained from undergraduate and graduate medical education, combined.

Attracting and retaining physicians, especially those in primary care, is an enduring challenge for hospitals. Hospitals have begun deploying a strategy to meet this challenge that, at first glance, might seem surprising: including in the mix of a hospital's employed…

Physician and nurse vacancy rates in hospitals have increased dramatically from 2009 rates, according to AMN Healthcare's 2013 Clinical Workforce Survey.

The United States is aging, and so are its physicians: 27.6 percent of the nation's physicians are 60 years old or older, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges' 2013 State Physician Workforce Data Book.

A proposed Florida bill would expand physician assistants' scope of practice and double the number of PAs physicians can supervise, according to a report by The Florida Current.