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Borrow strategies from physician-owned hospitals to achieve alignment

Medical Staff Briefing, January 1, 2010

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According to Sandvig, two primary reasons physicians invest in hospitals are to improve their working environment and to have greater control over the care they provide to patients.
“At [nonphysician-owned] hospitals, they didn’t feel that their ability to provide the best patient care was really in their hands. There were nurses they wanted to hire or equipment they wanted to purchase but couldn’t,” Sandvig says.

At physician-owned facilities, if a physician believes that a certain piece of equipment will improve patient care, he or she presents his or her argument to a board of likeminded physicians and receives an answer right away, says Sandvig.

Although general community hospitals may not be able to adopt a physician-ownership model or eliminate bureaucracy entirely, Sandvig suggests that hospitals evaluate their current decision-making structures to see if any steps can be eliminated

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