Four cardiology practices in Charlotte, N.C., with a total of 46 physicians have merged to form Novant Health Heart & Vascular Institute, according to a Charlotte Observer report.
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White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital Physicians Associates has announced the addition of its first oncology and hematology practice, Oncology & Hematology of White Plains.
Sound Physicians, a hospitalist organization, has entered into an agreement to provide hospitalist services at San Joaquin Community Hospital in Bakersfield, Calif.
Ross University School of Medicine, a private medical school in the West Indies, has announced an education agreement with Vanguard MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Ill.
Clearwater, Fla.-based Morton Plant Mease, part of BayCare Health System in Clearwater, has entered into a professional services agreement with Heart & Vascular Institute North, a cardiology group with five locations in Florida, according to a Tampa Bay Business Journal…
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In "The Language of Caring Guide for Physicians: Communication for Patient-Centered Care" (2012), authors Wendy Leebov, EdD, and Carla Rotering, MD, share 35 best practices for physician communication.
Nearly half of the nation's adolescents, children 10 to 17 years old, lack a medical home, according to a study by researchers from the University of California San Francisco's Department of Pediatrics and published in Academic Pediatrics.
The Idaho Primary Care Association, an organization representing the states' community health centers and their patients, has been awarded a $300,000 three-year grant from the Cambia Health Foundation to facilitate the transition of 20 community health center clinics into patient-centered…
The Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), will hold a hearing Tuesday addressing programs that can ease the primary care workforce shortage.
Limiting residents to 16-hour work days is not improving care provided by interns and is instead overworking them, according to a report by the New York Times.