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?
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Sexual Harassment Is in the News. Make Sure Your Group’s or Facility’s Name Isn’t Included. – Medical Group Minute
An investigation gone bad, or bad decisions made during and after a proper investigation, have an impact far beyond that on the accuser and the alleged.
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?
Hospitals Beg to Be Aligned by Physicians! – Medical Group Minute
Over the past decade or so, hospitals have spent countless hundreds of millions of dollars “aligning” physicians. But now it’s hospitals that are begging to be aligned.
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.
Walgreens Slims Number of In-Store Clinics
A few weeks ago, Walgreens, the giant drug store chain, announced that it was planning to close the 157 in-store health clinics that it owns. It will continue to keep those clinics run by third parties.
Why close their own stores? They didn’t make money.
Why You Must Know This Negotiation Strategy: Think Like a Buyer Not a Seller – Podcast
It is difficult to control human nature: The impulse, when dealing with a potential deal partner, to have the mindset of a seller.
Disruptive Physicians and Avoiding the Death of Your Medical Group – Podcast
As humans, we’re primed by evolutionary forces to fear the loss of something much more than we value an equivalent gain.
Driverless Cars and the Death of Hospitals – Medical Group Minute
I’ve yet to see a driverless car, but I bet that it’s headed to the funeral of some hospital.
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.