Two years ago, the bankrupt St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City shuttered its doors. Since then, innovative ties between physicians and outpatient clinics are suggestive of trends to come in urban care delivery, according to a New York Times report.
New York City-based Continuum Health Partners has established its foothold by forming ties with outpatient and retailed-based clinics to create a feeder network for hospitals. The system, which runs five hospitals in the city, says its expansion is expected to serve as a foundation for an accountable care organization, according to the report.
"Urgent care centers are opening at the pace of Starbucks, and we are affiliating with as many of them as we can," Adam Henick, senior vice president of ambulatory care and medical enterprise for Continuum, said in the report.
NYU Langone Medical Center has expanded its physician practices downtown and hired physicians who were stranded by the closure of St. Vincent's. Great Neck, N.Y.-based North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is also renovating a building across from the former St. Vincent's facility and turning it into a freestanding emergency department, scheduled to open in 2014.
Michael J. Dowling, CEO of North Shore-LIJ, said his organization is open to collaborations with Continuum and other neighborhood providers. "In many cases, we've been addicted to inpatient beds. We can't be addicted to them in the future," he said in the report.
St. Vincent's closure also made room for walk-in urgent care centers, several of which moved into lower Manhattan and have begun to form relationships with surrounding hospitals. One urgent care center official said his organization is still trying to determine whether clinics and hospitals are threats or assets to each other, but the answer is probably both, according to the report.
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New York City-based Continuum Health Partners has established its foothold by forming ties with outpatient and retailed-based clinics to create a feeder network for hospitals. The system, which runs five hospitals in the city, says its expansion is expected to serve as a foundation for an accountable care organization, according to the report.
"Urgent care centers are opening at the pace of Starbucks, and we are affiliating with as many of them as we can," Adam Henick, senior vice president of ambulatory care and medical enterprise for Continuum, said in the report.
NYU Langone Medical Center has expanded its physician practices downtown and hired physicians who were stranded by the closure of St. Vincent's. Great Neck, N.Y.-based North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is also renovating a building across from the former St. Vincent's facility and turning it into a freestanding emergency department, scheduled to open in 2014.
Michael J. Dowling, CEO of North Shore-LIJ, said his organization is open to collaborations with Continuum and other neighborhood providers. "In many cases, we've been addicted to inpatient beds. We can't be addicted to them in the future," he said in the report.
St. Vincent's closure also made room for walk-in urgent care centers, several of which moved into lower Manhattan and have begun to form relationships with surrounding hospitals. One urgent care center official said his organization is still trying to determine whether clinics and hospitals are threats or assets to each other, but the answer is probably both, according to the report.
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