Hospitals searching for allies to cut costs, improve services

The country doctor immortalized on Norman Rockwell magazine covers, who treated the whole family, cheerfully made house calls and never pressed for payment, is a thing of the past. Today, even family practitioners are joining health maintenance organizations. And hospitals are building alliances amo...

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Published in:Westchester County business journal 1995-07, Vol.34 (31), p.1
Main Author: de Seife, Ethan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Alliances
Beneficiaries
Health care networks
Health care policy
Health maintenance organizations
Health services
HMOs
Hospitals
Industrywide conditions
Middle Atlantic
Presidents
School districts
Trends
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Summary:The country doctor immortalized on Norman Rockwell magazine covers, who treated the whole family, cheerfully made house calls and never pressed for payment, is a thing of the past. Today, even family practitioners are joining health maintenance organizations. And hospitals are building alliances among themselves that will allow them to compete with other service networks for the right to provide comprehensive medical treatment. More than ever, hospitals are finding it advantageous to join forces with other medical centers. Combining services and consolidating business concerns with other health are providers allows hospitals to increase their presence in regions dominated by better-known medical centers, streamline computer services through networking, and help shorten the duration and improve the quality of patient hospital stays. (excerpt)
ISSN:1057-686X