Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates is curtailing patient referrals to Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital in an attempt to better coordinate care, opting to handle most patients at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, according to a report in the Boston Globe.
Integration & Physician Issues
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City (Mo.) and North Kansas City (Mo.) Hospital have signed a contract with Mid America Heart and Lung Surgeons that will create a new hospital-physician practice to serve both hospitals, according to a report by…
Marc Halley, CEO of Halley Consulting Group in Westerville, Ohio, has worked for many years with hospital-owned medical practice networks across the country, facilitating financial turnarounds, organizing effective governance between employed physicians and hospital executives and developing methods to improve…
On Feb. 11, David Thoene, managing member of Medical Surgical Partners, presented a Webinar titled "Hospital-Doctor Joint Ventures: A Highly Efficient Physician-Engagement Tool" that highlighted reasons for and benefits of creating hospital-physician ASC joint ventures.Mr. Thoene began the presentation by…
A new bill in the California legislature would loosen the state's unusually tough restrictions against hospitals hiring physicians, seen as a barrier against building integrated health systems, according to a report by the Fresno Bee.
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The West Virginia University Hospitals in Morgantown, W.Va., has received the Magnate award from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the only hospital in the country to receive the designation twice, according to a report from WBOY News.
On Nov. 19, VMG Health presented a Webinar titled "Trends in Strategies and Valuation of Physician/Hospital Relationships," which provided participants an overview of current trends regarding physician/hospital relationships, including a discussion of how healthcare reform and possible changes in reimbursements…
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Houston), along with other Texas House members, are attempting to push two amendments to the House healthcare reform bill that would soften current restrictions to physician-owned hospitals and grandfather in around 100 such facilities currently under…
Plans for a 12-bed joint replacement hospital in Indio, Calif., near Palm Springs, are very close to fruition, except for one thing — opposition from the local general hospital, which is spilling over into the courts.
Akron (Ohio) General Health System is accusing physician-investors in a joint venture with rival network Summa Health System of steering patients to their hospital, according to a report by the Akron Beacon Journal.