In today's competitive healthcare environment, every hospital and health system is searching for a larger piece of their market's pie.
Integration & Physician Issues
There is no doubt culture is important to physicians and hospital administrators alike. Determining cultural fit is an important part of the physician recruitment process for many organizations. Cultural fit is also important because if physicians do not feel as…
Budget cuts, proposed in both the Kansas House and Senate, would lead to the discontinuation and reduction of medicine programs at University of Kansas' campuses in Wichita and Salina, according to a report by The Wichita Eagle.
Physicians, nurses and other clinicians in local practices have important leadership roles that affect the success of coordinated care delivery models, according to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
St. Rose Dominican Hospitals, a system with locations in Las Vegas and Henderson, Nev., is ending its contract with Emergency Medicine Physicians, the medical group that staffs its hospitals' emergency departments, effective July 15, according to a Las Vegas Sun…
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The Texas state Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would expand the state's medical residency slots, according to a Star-Telegram report.
UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco has signed a letter of intent to form an integrated system with Pacific Partners Management Services and San Mateo, Calif.-based Individual Practice Association Medical Group of Santa Clara County, according to a San Francisco…
New legislation, introduced in both the House and Senate Tuesday by Hawaii's Congressional delegation, would fund preventive healthcare training for students who would provide treatment for patients living in underserved, rural areas.
St. Louis-based Catholic health system SSM Health Care announced it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Dean Health Systems, a physician-owned, for-profit multispecialty group based in Madison, Wis.
Coordinated care delivery models have taken the healthcare industry by storm, with patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations becoming more popular with hospitals, health systems and large physician groups trying to provide high-quality care at a lower cost.