{"title":"The military as a partner.","authors":"W E Sullivan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Pentagon has authorized the military to contract with private medical groups to supply board certified and board eligible physicians and support personnel to military hospitals to administer specialty medical services. The arrangement, known as a partnership agreement, provides volume to the civilian medical groups and reduces military medical outlays for expensive services at civilian hospitals. This professional paper addresses the initiation, procurement, and execution of a partnership agreement.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"8 2","pages":"69-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20991171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marketing a specialty practice--a must for the '90s.","authors":"M E Canning","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the patient is the focal point of any practice, the main marketing target of any specialty practice is the referring physician. Competition for the referred patient has become so intense that every physician must be concerned about the source of patients, retaining patients and successfully building a professional network. Increasingly sophisticated marketing strategies will be necessary for health care organizations to survive and flourish in a competitive marketplace.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"8 2","pages":"5-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20991170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organizational conflict: strong department heads versus central administration.","authors":"J M Koemptgen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Academically oriented physicians and physician leaders are generally not advocates of strong centralized organization. This paper examines St. Mary's Medical Center's attempts, over a five-year period, at integrating departmental and central administrative functions.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"8 1","pages":"56-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21032515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nursing salaries: a new strategy.","authors":"C M Evans","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Salary inconsistencies in the nursing department of the Mecklenburg Medical Group were becoming a significant problem. This case study explains how the group implemented a system to bring nurses' salaries in line with the rest of the community.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"7 1","pages":"20-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20976731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing in the new paradigm.","authors":"L A Cross","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The 1990s represent a profoundly exciting time to be in health care. The following paper asserts that it is time for physicians and management to relinquish old baggage, to dream about what is best, and help create a new medical culture. Guiding the choices about what is best for the future of health care are three broad issues: cost and value, patient satisfaction, and standards of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"7 2","pages":"5-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20978725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The advanced group practice model.","authors":"D K Rea","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This professional paper reviews the market and medical economic forces at work which favor the group practice model, and investigate alternative structures in the group practice model that would appeal to the solo practitioner and two-man association.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"7 1","pages":"25-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20976732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marketing--putting it all together in a rural practice.","authors":"D H Schwicker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Marketing medical practices, whether in a metropolitan or rural area is a reality in today's competitive environment. This paper follows the development of a successful marketing plan for a rural medical group practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"7 2","pages":"48-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20978724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organization and automation of the medical records department.","authors":"L B Brooks","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Lewis-Gale Clinic, a 100-physician multispecialty group practice, needed to get its record systems more organized in order to provide the foundation necessary to continue patient growth objectives. The following case study describes how these goals were accomplished.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"7 1","pages":"5-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20976734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Productivity enhancement: implications for medical group management.","authors":"T D Holets","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Productivity enhancement is critical for every medical group practice. In today's environment, without productivity enhancement, many medical groups will not be able to survive. This paper examines what administrators must do to determine what aspects of their group's performance should be measured and monitored.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"7 2","pages":"22-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20978721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does owning a nursing home fit into your medical group's future?","authors":"M J Crowe","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A savvy administrator must explore and implement ways to keep the medical group growing, but always to keep in perspective the monetary limitations. This professional paper provides a model to use in determining whether or not a medical group should consider branching out into the nursing home business.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"7 1","pages":"38-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20976733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}