Effective March 1, Mercy, the 32-hospital system based in Chesterfield, Mo., and Hermann (Mo.) Area District Hospital will enhance physician collaboration to better treat critically ill patients in central Missouri.
Integration & Physician Issues
Teaching hospitals in Illinois could face a reduction of medical students training in their facilities beginning in July if the state does not resolve delays in processing temporary licenses, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.
In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor; Jeffrey Flier, MD, the dean of faculty medicine at Harvard University and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School; and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, a senior research fellow…
The following stories pertain to accountable care organizations, hospital-physician relationships and population health management strategies. All were published within the past month.
More than half of the U.S. population lives in areas served by accountable care organizations, according to new analysis by Oliver Wyman, a consulting firm.
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Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has proposed a plan to attract physicians to the state's underserved areas by forgiving medical school debt, according to an Omaha World Herald report.
When it comes to accountable care organizations, hospitals and health systems face a lengthy checklist for infrastructure requirements. Certain items, such as licenses and electronic medical records, are concrete and quantifiable, while others are more difficult to measure. Stickiness, or…
Blackstone Valley Community Health Care is a federally qualified health center that provides primary medical, dental and behavioral healthcare in Pawtucket and Central Falls, R.I. The providers at BVCHC — currently eight physicians, five dentists, two pharmacists and a myriad…
Physician recruitment is a difficult process for most hospitals and health systems. It requires months of planning and effort to get a physician in the door. So, after all of that work and effort, it is especially painful — and…
As the accountable care organization model spreads across the country, some organizations have sought and received ACO accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.