![]() And we look forward to the next 10 years with Steward." "I can't say enough good things about them. "We've had a great affiliation with Partners," Gularek said. ![]() Partners - the state's largest health care and physicians group and the owner of Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's hospitals in Boston - doesn't run any hospitals along the state's South Coast where Hawthorn operates. "We're looking for someone who has an investment in the local community, and Steward has that."Īmong its other holdings, Steward owns Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River, where many Hawthorn providers already refer patients. "Unless we're with a system that will allow us to develop health care in our community, we're just going to be pawns in a larger game" involving more stringent state and federal regulations and funding cuts. "It's a preparation for what's happening in health care," Gularek said. Gularek said the deal was approved unanimously by the 60 physicians who are shareholders of Hawthorn, an organization that also includes other doctors, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. ![]() Steward has a bigger presence in the New Bedford area than Partners. Gularek, chief executive of Dartmouth-based Hawthorn, said its decision was driven less by financial incentives than by a conviction that linking with Steward would better position the practice for an emerging era of more coordinated health care. The relationship with Hawthorn will bring the number of doctors in Steward's network to about 2,700, including 700 employed and 2,000 affiliated physicians. you're moving toward an integrated care model where doctors and hospitals will be paid as a single entity and will have to work more closely together." "Because everyone is moving to some kind of bundled payment. Robinson, health care attorney for Boston law firm Posternak Blankstein & Lund. "Doctors are always in demand because they refer patients to hospitals," said Ruselle W. Also, a half-dozen doctors in the Quincy area recently left Tufts Medical Center's physician network for Steward. For-profit Steward, backed by New York private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, has been aggressively wooing doctors practices in the communities where it operates.Īfter signing a deal last November with the Whittier Independent Practice Association in Newburyport, which had been affiliated with the Beth Israel Deaconess group, Steward said in December that it was partnering with Compass Medical, a South Shore practice with 90 doctors that had been allied with the Partners network.
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