As the accountable care organization model grows in popularity, many assumptions about how to operate as a successful ACO have surfaced. However, according to a new paper from The Commonwealth Fund and the Premier healthcare alliance, three of the most…
Integration & Physician Issues
Baptist Medical Group, part of Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist Memorial Health Care, has acquired Memphis (Tenn.) Primary Care, a two-physician group, according to a report by the Memphis Business Journal.
Miami-based Jackson Health System's board chairman Marcos Lapciuc recently said the system is "misaligned" with the University of Miami, according to a report by The Miami Herald.
There is no doubt that burnout, which has symptoms such as detachment, diminishing empathy and emotional exhaustion, negatively affects physicians. Almost half of all physicians in the country are suffering from at least one symptom of burnout, according to a…
The state of California plans to launch the California Advanced Primary Care Institute, a non-profit organization to curb the effects of the physician shortage, in January 2013.
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Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare and Select Medical, a post-acute and extended care provider in Mechanicsville, Pa., have signed a letter of intent to form a joint venture.
Four Louisiana State University Health Shreveport transplant surgeons will leave the system on Dec. 31 and join Willis-Knighton Health System in Shreveport-Bossier City, La., according to a Shreveport Times report.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance has accredited its first accountable care organization: Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, a multispecialty group in Houston.
St. Vincent Healthcare in Billings, Mont., in collaboration with West Park Hospital in Cody, Wyo., has announced the two organizations will expand and upgrade Big Horn Basin Regional Cancer Center in Cody.
Patient-centered medical homes are a relatively new concept in the healthcare field. After all, the National Committee for Quality Assurance only began recognizing clinics as patient-centered medical homes in 2008.However, the notion of PCMHs being a "change" in healthcare is…