The Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, a new medical school at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., has a specific mission, according to a Kaiser Health News report: to create new primary care physicians.

A group of independent physicians and local businesses in and around Orlando, Fla., have joined together to form the Association of Independent Doctors, a trade association, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.

AARP The Magazine and The Leapfrog Group partnered to highlight a selection of hospitals that received an "A" patient safety rating from Leapfrog.

Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreens is expanding services at its Take Care Clinics to include management for chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, asthma and others.

Investing in preventive health is an important strategy in improving population health and decreasing costs, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation policy brief.

California has the highest number of oncologists, according to State Health Facts, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

For hospitals, a strategy to expand market share requires more than adding physicians to the ranks. Hospitals can strengthen their market share by borrowing efficiencies and strategies that have traditionally been mainstays in the retail industry. John R. Thomas, CEO…

Not much has changed over the past year regarding accreditation standards.  However, ASCs should constantly think about how their center can continue to improve quality.

Culpeper Medical Associates, a network of six primary care physician practices throughout central Virginia, has joined Charlottesville, Va.-based UVA Health System, effective April 1.

Complementary and alternative medicine providers, such as practitioners of acupuncture and oriental medicine, chiropractors, direct-entry midwives and naturopathic physicians, are "generally unrecognized" by, but can fill a greater role in, the national healthcare landscape, according to a whitepaper generated by…