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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
I thought that TVRH was the hospital, which is owned by the Central Florida Health Alliance. The new Villages Health System is the new collection of eight large primary care offices being built in The Villages. ........ From all that was announced about the new "Marcus Welby" approach by TVHS, the suggestion was that it will eventually be owned and operated much like The Mayo Clinic, The Cleveland Clinic, and other such organizations that do not practice fee for service medicine.
Am I missing something?
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I don't think most of us really know what it means to run a healthcare system the way Mayo Clinic or Cleveland Clinic do. It is quite a stretch of the imagination to say that paying doctors a salary instead of fee-for-service payments would make a small system like TV Healthcare "like Mayo or Cleveland Clinic".
Those two huge, historic institutions are world-class giants among the many teaching hospitals in the country, in which medical school graduates do their required residency training and subspecialty training to be able to practice on their own. Here are two articles among many that explain key features of Mayo or Cleveland Clinic etc.
Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education:
2011-2012 fact sheet
The Learning Community
144 Categorical Internal Medicine Residents; 24 Preliminary Residents
4 Chief Medical Residents
92 medical schools represented
80-100 Mayo Medical Students and 50 Visiting Student Clerks per year
~2,940 Mayo Clinic Rochester residents, fellows and students
˜2,060 Mayo Clinic Rochester staff physicians and scientists
More than 600 Mayo Clinic Rochester Internal Medicine Faculty (no private attendings)
Patient base and care environment
- On a typical day more than 5,700 outpatient visits at Mayo Clinic Rochester, or more than 1.5 million outpatient visits/year.
- More than 2,000 hospital beds; ˜240 daily hospital admissions.
- ˜ 80 percent of patients are from Minnesota, Iowa or Wisconsin.
- In 2011, Mayo Clinic provided over $62 million for charity care and care to those in need.
- Mayo Clinic Rochester's two hospitals, Emergency Department and Clinic buildings are all within walking distance.
- Industry leader for electronic medical record, which includes online x-ray viewing.
- Multiple divisions ranked in the 2011, U.S. News and World Report "National Top 10 Specialty Rankings".
#1 - GI
#1 - Endocrinology
#1 - Nephrology
#2 - Cardiology
#2 - Neurology
#2 - Pulmonary
#4 - Oncology
#4 - Rheumatology
#6 - Geriatrics......
Highlights - Internal Medicine Residency MN - Mayo Clinic
What does Medicare have to do with Graduate Medical Education? (Residency Training)
https://www.aamc.org/initiatives/gme...icare-gme.html