Sharp HealthCare integrates services to link patients to appropriate level of care
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Sharp HealthCare has utilized a regional integrated health delivery system with great success. In just 10 years the San Diego County system has grown from one hospital to a network of five, providing coverage to 325,000 patients - approximately 25% of the market - under managed care plans. Because Sharp's managed plans stress the importance of providing patients with appropriate care, the company has taken pains to provide a continuum of services. It has also made a special effort to include participating physicians in management decisions.
Publication Name: Hospitals
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0018-5973
Year: 1992
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Laurel system strives to improve region's health status by emphasizing continuum of care
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Laurel Health Systems in Tioga County, PA, has used an integrated regional delivery system to great advantage. By merging two local healthcare providers, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital and North Penn Comprehensive Health Services, Laurel has been able to provide a range of services that include home health care, foster care and programs for seniors. The company has enhanced delivery by using a preventive care model and a computer system that allows participating agencies to share information in a real-time environment.
Publication Name: Hospitals
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0018-5973
Year: 1992
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Kansas City system looks to financing as final piece of integration puzzle
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Health Midwest, a health care management company with 11 hospitals in Kansas City, MO, began instituting integrated health care as early as 1979 when, operating as 400-bed facility named Research Medical, it merged with two other hospitals. The system now has 2,356 acute care beds and a staff of 2,150. As part of the move to an integrated system Health Midwest developed affiliations with 80 local physicians. The company is still in the process of standardizing administrative systems to better serve its various agencies.
Publication Name: Hospitals
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0018-5973
Year: 1992
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