Integration & Physician Issues

Physician executives and integration experts share three aspects of physician integration that hospital CEOs and other executives tend not to understand.

The Greendale (Wis.) Medical Clinic, a physician practice with two internal medicine physicians, joined Milwaukee, Wis.-based Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin's clinical practice group Dec. 1.

Smaller areas of the U.S. — cities with less than 50,000 people — are experiencing a shortage of rheumatologists, according to a study published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, the journal of the American College of Rheumatology.

Columbia-based University of Missouri School of Medicine, in partnership with University of Missouri Health Care, will open an emergency medicine residency program in July 2014.

Southeastern Health in Lumberton, N.C., in collaboration with Campbell University's Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine, has received accreditation from the American Osteopathic Association for two residency programs.

Forty-four percent of physicians said they do not plan to participate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges, according to new survey results from Jackson & Coker.

Omaha, Neb.-based Alegent Creighton Health plans to develop a new academic medical center on its Bergan Mercy Medical Center campus in Omaha.

A majority of health facilities, like hospitals, medical groups, community health centers and government health facilities, use at least one locum tenens physician per month, according to the "2013 Survey of Temporary Physician Staffing Trends" conducted by Staff Care, an…

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital will become a regional medical campus for the Drexel University College of Medicine, expanding the organizations' academic affiliation.

St. Louis-based SSM Health Care is collaborating with Walgreens' Healthcare Clinic for an information sharing platform and after-hours care, according to an SSM news release.