How Giant Mergers Will Affect Your Hospital

How Giant Mergers Will Affect Your Hospital

Around 14,000 physicians left private practice in order to join hospital groups between July 2016 and January 2018, according to a February report in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Plus, in spite of the pandemic, hospital systems saw almost 80...

Where Have All the Prophets Gone?

The tolls have not begun to be taken. But surely that will start soon. And we can be pretty certain what those tolls will report. It’s just a matter of time, that is, before we begin learning of deaths occurring on account of the sequester and the decision by...

New Source of Mayhem and Death Stalks Illinois

Plenty of gory stories about injury, mayhem and death in America this summer, highlighted by mass violence in suburban Denver and Milwaukee. Illinois has escaped those incidents, we think. Oh, but then there’s Chicago, with its own – more extended in time and...