Dignity Health news and information

The drive to get big and get integrated is the defining dynamic in healthcare as providers and payers adjust to their fast-changing world.
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Dignity Health has formed a group purchasing organization and a for-profit joint venture with UnitedHealthcare that aims to address the costs of physician preference items, often among a hospital's most expensive needs.
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Dignity Health has formed its own group-purchasing organization, months after Ascension Health and Highmark also announced initiatives to establish GPOs as they seek to better control supply costs.
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Dignity Health became the latest not-for-profit health system to announce it would venture for the first time into taxable public markets.
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Physicians at Ashland (Ore.) Community Hospital are urging the Ashland City Council to approve the organization's merger with Dignity Health, saying the hospital's doors could be closed within a year—although community members still want more options explored.
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The first two years of a Sacramento accountable care experiment cut spending by $50 million, including $13 million that was divided by the participating doctors, hospitals and insurer.
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Catholic Health Initiatives, the nation's second-largest Catholic health system, will invest as much as $200 million through a newly created venture capital group.
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Blue Shield of California announced plans for an ACO with Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz, Calif., and Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz County. It is the insurer's eighth ACO.
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Dignity Health is partnering with the Arizona State Physicians Association to provide independent physicians access to a health information exchange through an accountable care organization.
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Dignity Health, San Francisco, and Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville, said they will seek to form a Medicare accountable care organization in Arizona. The not-for-profit California system, which owns three Arizona hospitals, and for-profit Vanguard, which owns five Arizona hospitals operating as...
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