Trunfio, who said the arrangement has been in the works for about 18 months, acknowledged that the bottom-line pressures to improve the efficiency of health care delivery were at least partly driven by the Affordable Care Act, dubbed Obamacare. “In my opinion, all this consolidation that they’re trying to do is just taking health care further and further away from our local community,” Liegner said.
Jeffrey Liegner, president of the Sussex County Medical Society, expressed skepticism about the arrangement, which he fears will accelerate a trend toward centralized medicine that will further undermine the relationships patients have with their Trunfio said Atlantic Health - whose other assets include Morristown Medical Center and Goryeb Children’s Hospital in Morristown, as well as Overlook Medical Center in Summit - would continue to maintain autonomy under the new partnership, which will be known as AllSpire Health Partners.īut Dr. He said the arrangement would enable the hospitals to “learn from each other, as opposed to doing standalone learning.” “We’ll be sharing the best clinical expertise among seven of the best health care institutions not only in the Northeast but nationwide and learning from each other’s best practices,” said Atlantic Health President and CEO Joseph Trunfio.
By ERIC it “a natural evolution in the practice of medicine,” the president of Atlantic Health System, which owns Newton Medical Center, predicted Thursday that a new umbrella organization of Atlantic Health and six other health care networks in New Jersey and Pennsylvania would enable the 25 hospitals involved to pool their resources more effectively while capitalizing on each other’s specialty areas and strengths.
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