{"title":"Downsizing a branch clinic system.","authors":"J M Koemptgen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Medical group practices often underestimate the cost and complexity of building a branch clinic network. This case study follows the Ramsey Clinic's experience in countering this problem.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"7 2","pages":"36-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20978722","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":"Three hundred sixty-five days post-HMO.","authors":"C M Evans","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Carolina Medical Care was conceived as a physician-owned HMO. Two-and-a-half years later, it was declared insolvent and shut down. As a founding member of the HMO, a third of its 15,000 patients were capitated to the Mecklenburg Medical Group. This case study examines the efforts to keep those patients following dissolution of the HMO.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"7 1","pages":"12-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20976730","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":"Disability insurance: merging group and individual policies.","authors":"C M Evans","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This case study explains how the Mecklenburg Medical group, after discovering a gap in the disability insurance for its physicians, followed through by negotiating a new plan which also covered non-physician employees.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"7 1","pages":"16-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20993032","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":"Developing a formal policy for the management of blood and body fluids in an outpatient setting.","authors":"W D Zalabak","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Is it necessary for the average outpatient facility to develop a formal policy for handling blood and body fluids?\" is a question medical group administrators have come face-to-face with over the past several years. It became clear to the author of this case study that something had to be done to ensure the safety of both his organization's employees and the patients they cared for.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"7 1","pages":"51-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21000067","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":"Pitfalls in the joint planning process between a group practice and a hospital.","authors":"J M Koemptgen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Organizations contemplating or attempting joint strategic planning should be aware that it is difficult and that there is no right or wrong way to proceed. This case study follows the Ramsey Clinic in its effort to establish such a process.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"7 2","pages":"41-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20978723","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":"Physical therapist's opposition to being employed by medical groups.","authors":"T H Stearns","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The movement by physical therapists to work independently of physicians is having an impact on the ability of group managers to recruit and retain physical therapists. This paper discusses the development of physical therapy as a profession and its evolution to the point of demanding independent status from physicians.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"7 2","pages":"72-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20978726","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":"Employee leasing ... then and now.","authors":"D M Cogdill","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper examines the case history of an employee leasing plan for the Green Clinic, beginning in 1980 and terminating in 1987. The advantages, disadvantages and effects on the Clinic's operation are noted within.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"6 1","pages":"45-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21163138","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":"Ambulatory medical necessity review in a multispecialty group practice.","authors":"N T Fishman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The winds of change are constant in medical care delivery, and one of the strongest currents in the last ten years has been the shift from inpatient to ambulatory medical delivery. This paper discusses the search for an ambulatory care paradigm which would differentiate medical necessity on site at a medical group practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"6 2","pages":"65-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21165558","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":"Esprit de corps of the medical group.","authors":"D A Surface","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Esprit de corps may be simply defined as morale. The purpose of this paper will be to advance the importance of the group spirit to the overall successful operation of a medical group organization, to encourage recognition of the group spirit and to consider the ways it may be developed, changed, revitalized and nurtured.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"6 1","pages":"49-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21163139","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 delivery of medical services in a retail shopping mall: a strategy for growth.","authors":"K R Hayden","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The successful medical practice of the future will continually search for growth strategies. This writer believes the location of a primary care medical clinic in a retail shopping mall, with a full menu of primary services, is one strategy for growth. It is an effective method of health care delivery to a community.</p>","PeriodicalId":79579,"journal":{"name":"College review (Denver, Colo.)","volume":"6 2","pages":"12-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21165557","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}