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In the world of employment, physicians are a unique group because such a high percentage are self-employed. Traditionally, many or most doctors had their own practice or worked in a partnership with a small group of doctors. But the percentage of physician-owned practices is beginning to shrink, while hospital-owned practices are increasing. Will the independent small medical practice become a thing of the past? Joining host Shane Jackson is Charlie Evans, president of the International Health Services Group, to help define the current trends.
R. Shane Jackson is executive vice president of Jackson Healthcare, a provider of healthcare information technology, staffing and resources, and he is both president and CEO of LocumTenens.com, a full-service locum tenens recruiting agency. At Jackson Healthcare, Mr. Jackson is responsible for overseeing all investments, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures for the company. He also oversaw the start-up in 2009 of AdvancedPractice.com, a full-service recruiting agency specializing in placing nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Mr. Jackson previously served as president of Patient Placement Systems, a healthcare technology company providing software for referring and placing patients that require care after leaving the hospital. In 2000, he co-founded and acted as president of NextStart Capital, where he oversaw and directed numerous fundraising and acquisition transactions. Mr. Jackson earned an MBA, with honors, from Emory University, where he was one of a distinguished group of students selected for the institution's accelerated three-semester degree program. He also holds a BBA from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. Mr. Jackson was named one of Atlanta's "Top 40 Under 40" by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in 2008. He also serves as board chair for Mission Predisan, a Christian, not-for-profit healthcare organization that provides health and educational services to the people of eastern Honduras through over 40,000 patient contacts annually.
Charles R. Evans is president of the International Health Services Group (IHSG). IHSG is a social enterprise he founded in 2007 to support health services development in underserved areas of the world. IHSG works with established organizations to supplement their capabilities in healthcare management and development as they work to achieve their broader missions, with projects currently underway in Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, Honduras and the Dominican Republic with such partners as Rivers of the World, MedShare International, the Presbyterian Church of East Africa, the Ropheka Hospital in Nigeria, and Indiana University Medical School. Mr. Evans is also senior advisor at Jackson Healthcare, an Atlanta-based family of companies that provide staffing, anesthesia management, hospital management and healthcare information technology solutions to hospitals and health systems throughout the US. Mr. Evans retired in December 2006 as president of the Eastern Group of Nashville, Tennesee-based Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). He was responsible for HCA's operations in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, which included approximately 58 hospitals with annual net revenues of $8 billion. Evans is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and the 2009-2010 chairman. He served as a governor of the College from 2004 through 2007. He is involved in numerous boards and associations, including Jackson Healthcare, MedShare International, and the Georgia Association of Healthcare Executives. Mr. Evans also holds an appointment as clinical assistant professor of family and preventive medicine at Emory University School of Medicine.Prior to joining HCA, Mr. Evans served in executive positions at Memorial Medical Center of Jacksonville, Florida, and Community Hospitals, Indianapolis, Indiana. He joined HCA in 1995 and managed company divisions, including North Carolina, MidAmerica, and Southeast. Mr. Evans was named president of HCA's Eastern Group in 2004. A West Virginia native, Mr. Evans received an undergraduate degree from West Virginia Wesleyan College, a Master of Arts from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Indiana University.
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| Jack Tubbs (Fishers, IN) |
on 15 Jul 2010 at 12:05 pm |
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Physicians need to employ business managers who will keep the MD's viaable and profitable. This includes cash flow, AR management, etc. Nurses and other related medical personnel have no business training and therefore do not know who to manage a business. Physicians need to understand they own a business, which is healthcare.
MD's need to employ people like me to assist them in order to stay in business and continue to be independent. |
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| Abe Kohan, MBA, PhD (Philadelphia, PA) |
on 14 Jul 2010 at 6:35 pm |
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A license to practice medicine will always allow a physician to set up his/her private medical pratice, just like any other licensed professional. There is an increase medical practices being bought by hospitals and that is because physician who sell their medical practices either do so because of higher income prospect, stability in income, or just are are tired of dealing with managing the business of medical practice. Frankly, physicians like to be independent, like most people would, and once the going with hospital(s) gets tough and tougher, I believe there will be those physicians who will look to set up their private practice again, if they can.
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