A hematology and oncology group, comprised of six physicians, has joined White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital Physician Associates, the division of White Plains Hospital that aligns local physicians with hospital services.
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Aetna has announced the launch of a patient-centered medical home program in Massachusetts.
Banner Health is currently acquiring full ownership of Union Hills Surgery Center in Glendale, Ariz., and plans to operate it as the Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center's outpatient surgery department, according to a YourWestValley.com report.
Networking with colleagues is physicians' most preferred job hunting method, whereas social media is much less utilized when searching for a practice, according to a survey from The Medicus Firm.
New physician interns at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago get a three-day crash course in treating patients at intern "boot camp," a program recently profiled in The New York Times.
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HealthCare Midwest, a multispecialty group with 80 care providers in Kalamazoo, Mich., is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Bronson Healthcare, a nonprofit, community-governed system also in Kalamazoo.
Wyoming had the lowest number of professionally active primary care physicians in 2012, according to State Health Facts, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Many hospitals are beginning to recruit physicians while they are still residents because of the physician shortage, according to a report in The National Law Review. Indeed, 52 percent of physician residents and fellows who graduated in 2013 had job…
Pomona (Calif.) Valley Hospital Medical Center has launched a hospitalist program, according to an Inland Valley Daily Bulletin report.
Physicians make comments about patients' previous care and other physicians in nearly half of patient visits and the majority of those comments tend to be critical, potentially harming patient satisfaction, according to a survey from the Journal of Internal Medicine.