San Francisco-based Dignity Health signed a definitive agreement to acquire U.S. HealthWorks, the largest operator of occupational medicine and urgent care centers in the country.
Integration & Physician Issues
A long-standing challenge for many executives is aligning the physician relations/liaisons and the marketing departments. No matter the industry, often we find these two related, but separate functions operating in silos.
University of Louisville (Ky.) Physicians' Preventative Cardiology practice has announced an affiliation with The Little Clinic, a chain of urgent care centers located in select Kroger stores throughout Louisville.
New patient care models are emerging in waves, each with their own acronym: accountable care organizations, patient-centered medical homes and consumer operated and oriented plans are just a few of the most well-known innovations. Another model more providers are considering…
The Colorado Health Medical Group, part of the newly formed University of Colorado Health, has announced it will partner with the Urology Center of the Rockies, according to a Coloradoan report.
Cardiology Consultants, a 21-physician practice with offices throughout the Hampton Roads region of Virginia, will soon join Sentara Medical Group, the physician arm of Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare, according to a Virginian-Pilot report.
Healthcare is one of the largest industries in our country, and interestingly, is one of the only, along with perhaps education, that lacks transparent and comprehensible metrics to objectively measure the quality of its products and services. This fundamental deficiency…
While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act means as many as 30 million Americans could receive health insurance in the coming years, there is a growing concern those newly insured individuals will have difficulty finding a primary care physician…
Hackensack (N.J.) University Health Network has signed an affiliation agreement with Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, N.J.
Four healthcare organizations in Iowa have joined to create a new healthcare alliance — the University of Iowa Health Alliance — which will ultimately include more than 50 hospitals and more than 160 clinics.