Thirteen hospitals in Palm Beach County, FL, support a regional call schedule designed to direct emergency patients to specialists quickly. The plan, however, could be blocked by doctors or a state regulator with final say.
Four months after returning to Minneapolis to head Fairview Health Services-Minnesota's third-largest health system-CEO Mark Eustis explains his big plans for the organization. Fairview owns seven hospitals, including the University of Minnesota Medical Center, and a chain of primary care clinics. A couple major projects that Eustis has inherited in this new role include building a new hospital and potentially buying a medical group.
William Jessee, MD, president of the Medical Group Management Association, discusses the critical issues that today's medical groups face and how they are dealing with a troubling financial landscape.