Integration & Physician Issues

Falls Memorial Hospital and the Duluth Clinic – International Falls, both located in International Falls, Minn., have completed their integration into to the new Rainy Lake Medical Center, according to a report from The Daily Journal.

According to the America Stroke Association, strokes killed 143,579 people in 2005. It's the third leading cause of death, ranking behind "diseases of the heart" and all forms of cancer. About 795,000 victims suffer from a new or recurrent stroke…

Summa Health Systems and Crystal Clinic, both based in Akron, Ohio, have merged orthopedic programs, according to a report in Crain's Cleveland Business.

Note: The following article was first published in The Camden Quarterly, volume XIII, number 2 by The Camden Group, one of the nation's leading healthcare advisory firms. Historically, buying physician practices has not resulted in successful outcomes. Hospital inexperience in…

Like many of hospitals around the country, our non-profit, community hospital has watched intently as ASCs have proliferated. We have noted the increasing interest of surgeons in owning these facilities, and the high rates of patient satisfaction they deliver. Not…

The Medical Group Management Association's Medical Directorship/On Call Compensation Survey: 2009 Report Based on 2008 Data found that hospital compensation provided to independent physicians serving as hospital medical directors was substantially more than when hospitals pay an employed physician for…

The employment of physicians by a hospital or health system is a strategic initiative that needs board and senior leadership approval. The strategic intentions may be correct but the implementation of the plan is guaranteed torturous. If employment of physicians…

Here are seven ways hospital executives can improve relationships with their medical staffs from Susan Reynolds, MD, PhD, president and CEO of the Los Angeles-based Institute for Medical Leadership.

Through market observation it can be seen that there is a strong reemergence of physician employment by hospitals and health systems. The strategic logic for this reemergence is similar to the past — i.e. gain market share through primary care…

Dick Hanley, president and CEO of Broomfield, Colo.-based Health Inventures, which specializes in developing and managing ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) and imaging centers, often brokering partnerships between hospitals and physicians, offers the following six predictions and assessments relating to physician/hospital…