Integration & Physician Issues

The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is encouraging workplace health programs to adopt elements of accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes in a position statement that appears in the April issue of the Journal of Occupational and…

The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative — a coalition of 900 members from both in and outside the healthcare industry advocating for patient-centered medical homes — recently appointed two directors to its board.

Johnson Memorial Hospital will open the first phase of its surgery center April 30, according to a Daily Journal report.

Central Georgia Health System in Macon, Ga., and Tift (Ga.) Regional Medical Center have announced plans to create a "Regional Care Integrated Services Network."

A group of physicians fed up with a lack of management and recent mergers are leaving MedWest in North Carolina, according to a report in The Macon County News.

BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and Kaleida Health of Buffalo, N.Y., announced plans to partner and form an integrated care model, the first of its kind in the Buffalo region.

Sisters of Mercy Health System, based in Chesterfield, Mo., and Patients First, a Washington, Mo.-based multispecialty physician group, have announced they are in exclusive negotiations toward a merger.

In February, Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare Health System finalized its affiliation with the 400-physician Greater Newport Physicians group and also acquired physician management company Nautilus Healthcare Management Group.

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MCOL's HealthQuest Publishers announced the release of a 237-page Accountable Care Organization Directory for 2012, listing 100 selected ACOs and contact information for each.