Many independent hospitals are very wary of joining a bigger system. The newly-formed “Cascades Rural High Value Network” is supposed to produce some of the upsides without ceding independence.
The same site published an article a couple months ago about how private equity vultures are aggressively buying up those exact type of clinics to strip-mine them for their patient relationships while in many cases closing the clinic within a couple years 🙁
The same site published an article a couple months ago about how private equity vultures are aggressively buying up those exact type of clinics to strip-mine them for their patient relationships while in many cases closing the clinic within a couple years 🙁