Listen while Mark discusses a hospital’s announcement that it’s closing down its physician joint venture ASC. Was it really their decision? Or have the physician partners realized that they no longer need the hospital?
Impending Death of Hospitals
Hospital Abandons Physician ASC Partners – Medical Group Minute
Was it really their decision? Or have the physician partners realized that they no longer need the hospital?
What? Merged Hospitals Don’t Deliver Higher Quality!
At first, I thought it was a joke.
The healthcare world was supposedly abuzz last week when the New England Journal of Medicine published (on Jan 2, 2020) the report of a study that shows that consolidation in the hospital industry doesn’t lead to higher patient satisfaction or to higher quality.
You Can Hold the Mayo, But Mayo Can’t Hold on to Hospital
The tides of healthcare ebb and flow like the width of men’s ties and the political affiliation of Michael Bloomberg.
Hospital Abandons Physician ASC Partners
Earlier this year, I read a news piece on a health system in Memphis called Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare that had announced that it would be closing the joint venture ASC that it operates in concert with over one hundred physician partners.
History Rhymes in Healthcare Just as It Does in Home Delivery Services: Ride the Trend – Podcast
Mark discusses the fact that trends, even those that seem modern, such as home delivery of fully prepared meals, are simply history repeating itself or, at least, rhyming. Understanding this facilitates your exploitation of trends in healthcare.
Hospital Performs Surgery on Itself and Cuts Off More Than Half Its Beds
According to Karen Teitelbaum, President and CEO of Sinai Health System, “all hospitals are looking at how to transform care delivery and responsibly allocate resources to address changing patient needs.”
Why You Must Know About a University’s Captive Medical Group Filing Bankruptcy – Podcast
Hospital systems across the country suffer from bloated fixed costs, huge payrolls, layers and layers of bureaucracy, and management by managers, not by entrepreneurial thinkers.
Why You Must Know About a University’s Captive Medical Group Filing Bankruptcy – Medical Group Minute
Hospital systems across the country suffer from bloated fixed costs, huge payrolls, layers and layers of bureaucracy, and management by managers, not by entrepreneurial thinkers.
The Impending Death of Yet Another Large Hospital
It’s easy to be a backseat driver, but in the context of case flight from hospitals to outpatient facilities, buying large hospitals from national chains “because we can run them better” is a bit risky. Well, what the heck, it’s incredibly risky, so risky in fact, that one investor, Joel Freedman, and his company American…