The race to integrate: who will be the leaders?

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The future of health care lies in a vertically integrated delivery network, according to consultant Gerald L. McManis. Hospitals should take a leadership role in the integration process, or they may be left behind, as health maintenance organizations, physician group practices, insurance companies and others vie for leadership. Some hospitals will try to form physician-hospital organizations, but questions arise, including the primary one of money handling. Several potential solutions are analyzed.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Forecasts and trends, Medical care, Health care reform

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Flexibility and teamwork are keys to success in Worcester system

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Fallon Healthcare Organization, in Worcester, MA, credits its success to teamwork among the physicians, hospital and community health plan that control the network. Fallon has an enrollment of 160,000, including 19,000 from Medicare and state health plans. The flexible system permits non-member physicians to use the hospital and clinic. A new $190 million medical complex for central Worcester is in the planning stage.

Accident and health insurance, Health aspects, Economic aspects, Health services administration, Worcester, Massachusetts

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Bored meeting remedy

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Time is a precious commodity to a hospital's board of trustees when it meets only a few hours every month, and the same level of oversight cannot be maintained. Ron Bell of the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound of Seattle, WA, has rearranged trustee meetings of his organization. Operations have been streamlined, only exception reports are heard, and presentation of recommendations have been cut back.

Management, Hospitals, Hospital trustees, Group Health Cooperative (Seattle, Washington)

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