Concurrent with the trend of cardiovascular integration — whereby a hospital purchases the CV practice and subsequently employs the cardiologists — is a re-emergence of the service line as an ...

Horizontal consolidation in the hospital industry has gained momentum in the United States despite concerns over rising costs and lower quality. Hospital systems frequently point to potential gains in ...

Ascension has made several changes this year to strengthen its leadership structure and business strategy. The St. Louis-based health system has made adjustments to boost its operational leadership at ...

Hospital performance measures, such as prices and costs, are associated with hospital-insurer contract types. Objectives: To describe the association between the form of hospitals’ contracts—either ...

Leaders can sense when their organization is not working well or if the environment they operate in has changed, rendering the operating strategy and structure obsolete. The current Covid-19 pandemic ...

Every organization, no matter its size, has an abundance of moving pieces. Ensuring that all those pieces move in perfect synchrony starts by devising an organizational structure that represents the ...