Ride along with Mark as he discusses the danger inherent in tagging along on someone else’s platform.
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We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.
We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.
An anesthesiologist, commenting on my theme that inpatient care is becoming outpatient care and that the center of outpatient care isn’t the hospital but the freestanding facility, in his case the ASC, told me that I was missing an element in the analysis.
We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!
I doubt that Sir Walter Scott was envisioning the future of American healthcare when he wrote those lines in his epic poem Marmion.
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.
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.
For years, hospitals have pushed to “align” physicians. Take a ride with Mark as he talks about a reversal in the trend: As what were hospital cases now flow out to independent ASCs, hospitals are begging to be aligned with physicians. But why allow a hospital to be a partner in your ASC deal? Podcast: […]
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 […]
Creative destruction is taking aim directly at community hospitals. You can fight to save them.
