Provider panelists at InterFace affirm that many systems are still looking to grow
By John B. Mugford
The InterFace provider panel included (from left to right): moderator Jeff Calk of Holland & Knight, Jon Sullivan of Texas Health Resources, Matt Stiene of Novant Health, Brianne Eversmeyer of Emerus and healthcare consultant Rudy Santacroce. (HREI™ photo)
Although many rural hospitals and health systems are struggling, and some are closing, the larger systems in the larger markets are making sure to keep growing.
They’re doing so by buying up some of those smaller systems, building new facilities in growing suburbs, and repurposing other facility types – when it makes sense and can be done more quickly and at a lower cost than building new.
And while the world and the healthcare industry keep changing, the growing systems continue to use a time-tested delivery model: the hub-and-spoke.
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