If you are moving your practice to Southern California – or anywhere in the U.S., you can now view the latest ranking of hospitals by U.S. News. You can drill down by state, city and metropolitan area. Children’s hospitals are ranked separately.
Archives for July 2015
The Guide for Physicians to Stay Independent
If you are considering whether to start or purchase a practice versus the (noxious) possibility of hospital employment, please read this article.
“Although independent physicians often opine that the independent practice is no longer sustainable, recent data from the AMA shows that more than 60 percent of physicians continue to work in practices with ten physicians or fewer and their practice size did not really change all that much between 2012 and 2014.”
Read the original article in Physicians Practice.
Life before the era of antibiotics and the rise of superbugs
Imagine life before the discovery of antibiotics: 9 out of 1,000 women die in childbirth and up to 30% of children die during childbirth.
Read this fascinating article on KevinMD.
21st Century Cures Act passes House of Representatives
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted 344-77 to fund the 21st Century Cures Act. The Act would help speed the development and regulatory approval of new medical treatments.
If passed, there would be an additional $9.3 billion in mandatory funding over the next five years to fund the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and establish a Cures Innovation Fund to support work toward pioneering biomedical research.
Read the original article in ModernHealthcare.