Heart docs leave practices for hospital employment, transform care
For instance, Lourdes Health System in New Jersey last year hired 47 cardiologists, while Main Line Health in Pennsylvania bumped its employed cardiologists from six in 2008 to 28 this year. Philadelphia's Temple University Health System plans to hire eight cardiologists from a nearby cardiology group.
Such hospital employment ventures offer physicians financial perks, given that Medicare pays higher reimbursements for services rendered at hospital-owned facilities, reported the Inquirer .
After becoming comanagers at Lourdes Health System, two cardiologists standardized cardiac care. The time to perform a catheterization dropped 15 minutes after they pushed the hospital to use equipment that diagnoses a heart attack before a patient leaves home. They also helped reduce hospital stays and improve patient satisfaction by establishing units that include nurses proficient in heart-failure and heart-surgery.
Once on salary, the physicians became fully engaged in transforming the hospital's care. "And why?
Temple University Student Health Insurance - News
For instance, Lourdes Health System in New Jersey last year hired 47 cardiologists, while Main Line Health in Pennsylvania bumped its employed cardiologists from six in 2008 to 28 this year. Philadelphia's Temple University Health System plans to hire
Susan J. Kim, MD, joins the Southcoast Centers for Cancer Care as a medical oncologist. Dr. Kim earned her medical degree from the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the Massachusetts
Main Line Health, which employed six cardiologists in 2008, now has 28. This month, it announced the hiring of the last four, a group in Roxborough. And Temple University Health System announced that eight cardiologists from Chestnut Hill Cardiology
Temple's planned Pittsburgh medical school is on hold due to a financial loss. After a $51.8 million loss during the last fiscal year, West Penn Allegheny Health System's proposed medical school in Pittsburgh, a partnership with Temple University
The outcome was less than ideal: thick scars on her temples and a wavy abdomen. “I had to use all my savings to get a real plastic surgeon to fix what he did to me,” said Joan, who asked that her last name be withheld to protect her privacy.
reproductive health women Bishops condemn insurance mandate ...
Peter Feldmeier, a professor of Catholic studies at the University of Toledo, said, To force a religious institution to perform those services strikes me as an egregious violation of conscience.THE BLADE/LORI KINGIn Roman Catholic churches across the country this weekend, priests are reading statements from their local bishops urging the ithful to st, pray, protest, and take action against a new health-care mandate issued by the federal government.
reproductive health women Bishops condemn insurance mandate,Related documents:Bishop Leonard Blairs Letter
The Jan. 20 ruling by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will require virtually all employers, including Catholic hospitals and educational institutions, to provide health insurance that includes surgical sterilization and prescriptive contraceptives without charging employees a co-pay or a deductible.
That would be in direct conflict with Catholic doctrine, which has consistently condemned all forms of contraception except natural methods. The nations Catholic bishops are gearing up for a fight, calling the mandate literally unconscionable and an unprecedented attack on freedom of conscience and of religion.
Bishop Leonard Blair of Toledo, in a letter to be read at all 131 parishes in the 19-county diocese, called the ruling an alarming and serious matter … that strikes at the fundamental right to religious liberty for all citizens of any ith.
The letter says the debate is not about Catholic doctrine or the morality of contraception, but religious liberty and freedom of conscience for all citizens.
We cannot — we will not — comply with this unjust law, Bishop Blair said in his letter. The bishop declined requests from The Blade to be interviewed for this story.
The Health and Human Services mandate was issued as an interim final rule in August, 2011, and takes effect for most employers on Aug. 1. The department gave a one-year extension, to Aug. 1, 2013, for nonprofit employers who for religious reasons do not currently provide contraceptive coverage.