Integration & Physician Issues

Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, Calif., is starting an osteopathic residency program geared toward family and internal medicine and orthopedics, according to a Ventura County Star report.

Physician Relations programs developed out of need. In 1986 I was working with a healthcare organization that had developed and was managing a free-standing, specialized treatment center. After operating eight months and exhausting all traditional methods of marketing to both…

Here are four ways hospital leaders can start building positive relationships with affiliated physicians, based on articles published in the past month.

Centerstone Health Partners, a subsidiary of Nashville, Tenn.-based Centerstone, a behavioral healthcare provider, and Unity Physician Partners, an integrated healthcare provider, have formed a joint venture that will establish integrated care clinics to provide physical and behavioral health services to…

Members of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin have proposed a legislative agenda that would help end the nation's growing physician shortage, according to a Silicon India News report.

Indianapolis-based Community Health Network and Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., have partnered to create an accelerated nursing degree program to increase the number of registered nurses in Indiana.

On Wednesday, April 24, three experts from Objective Health will present a webinar on how hospital and physician leaders can use data to reduce variations in care and make the transition toward value-based care.

When an estimated 1.2 million uninsured Illinois residents gain health coverage next year — half through the state's expanded Medicaid program, the others through the online exchanges — there may not be enough physicians to take care of them, fears…

Henderson, N.C.-based Maria Parham Medical Center has acquired the physician practice of Kirit Trivedi, MD, effective April 1.

Canton, Ohio-based Cardiology One, a seven-physician cardiology group, will join Summa Physicians, the employed physician group of Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health System, effective June 1.