CEP America, an Emeryville, Calif.-based, physician-owned healthcare company, plans July 1 to renew its emergency medicine partnership with two Dignity Health San Francisco hospitals: St. Mary's Medical Center and Saint Francis Memorial Hospital. It also plans to significantly expand its relationship with St. Mary's by adding a hospitalist program and providing faculty for its internal medicine residency program.
"Healthcare organizations today are striving to create more coordinated, integrated and team-based care to meet every stage of patients' healthcare needs," Michael Carter, interim president of St. Mary's Medical Center, said in a statement. "CEP America has long been recognized for its leadership in emergency medicine, and is now bringing that same commitment and expertise to our hospitalist program. We're looking forward to working in partnership at both hospitals to ensure we continue to deliver care that exceeds patient expectations."
CEP America plans for its new hospitalist program at St. Mary's to be similarly structured to the program at Saint Francis, which has a focus on close collaboration with community physicians. In this format, CEP hospitalists are better able to streamline care with primary care providers. The collaborative model has been successful, according to local physicians.
"The hospitalists I work with at Saint Francis always promptly inform me when a patient has been admitted and ensure a follow-up appointment gets scheduled with me after discharge," Andrew Wang, MD, an internist in Nob Hill, Calif., said in a statement. "It has been a pleasure to work with them."
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