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You know that I strongly believe that the future of hospitals isn’t hospitals, it’s outpatient facilities.
If a procedure can be performed outside of the hospital, it will be performed outside of the hospital.
You know that I strongly believe that the future of hospitals isn’t hospitals, it’s outpatient facilities.
It’s not quite like life imitating art, but it’s probably as close to it as I’m going to see today. I just read a puff piece sponsored by Bank of America, pricey click bait for hospital CFOs, that supposedly features a roundtable “conversation” among (oxymoron warning) forward-looking hospital CFOs. Apparently, these CFOs have just realized […]
As a frequent reader of the blog, you know that I strongly believe that the future of hospitals isn’t hospitals, it’s outpatient facilities. (In fact, if you haven’t already, grab a free copy of my 2016 book, The Impending Death of Hospitals, here.) I’m not sure whether the folks at Banner Health read my book […]
Sit back and listen to Mark talk about Vermont’s war on patient care, freedom, and freestanding facilities.
Another week, another hospital closes. Well, at least one. Yes, this is a popular topic for the blog, because each additional hospital closure underscores the risk for physicians and medical groups that don’t spread risk. The lesson applies to both hospital-based and office-based physicians, although not necessarily equally. Yesterday, February 11, 2018, was the final, […]
Ride along with Mark as he talks about the hospital that can’t keep an owner.
In what might seem to some like ancient history and to others as a clarion call, in June 2010, New York City’s approximately 400 bed, 160 year old St. Vincent hospital, the last Roman Catholic general hospital in the city, closed its doors for the last time. In late 2017, a competing non-profit opened the […]