Press Room

Even before Dana Point was a city, Richard Kempert and Larry Snyder were tending to patients at a small office on Golden Lantern near Pacific Coast Highway. Kempert, an Ohio native, and Snyder, a Tex… See more

Waves of patients continue to travel from around the country to an Oklahoma surgery center for the promise of affordable health care. According to Dr. Keith Smith from Surgery Center of Oklahoma, the… See more

As paperwork requirements mounted, John F. Cullen Jr. found it increasingly more difficult to devote ample time to his roughly 2,000 patients.  The Ormond Beach primary care doctor contemplated… See more

Many doctors and patients were surprised last November when two major medical groups upended one central element of the traditional approach to warding off heart disease. With the release of new guide… See more

American healthcare as a system in the not-so-new millennium is a beast, it seems, requiring accountability from all sides if the various options are to be effective. The traditional model has lost no… See more

If your organization offers an annual wellness-screening program, you are in good company. According to a report by The Kaiser Family Foundation, nearly half of all U.S. companies with more than 200 e… See more

Attracting and retaining physicians, especially those in primary care, is an enduring challenge for hospitals. Hospitals have begun deploying a strategy to meet this challenge that, at first glance, m… See more

The Obamacare introduction fiasco is already producing two major unintended consequences:-*-It has vastly enriched the government’s already highly gilded “spinspeak” vocabulary (fog).-*-It is expected… See more

For $3,000 a year, a concierge patient can contact one area doctor 24/7 and get same-day or next-day appointments. As insurance companies have come to dominate health care services, frustrated doctor… See more

Dr. Thomas Hwang, a Tustin internist, didn’t like the way his practice was evolving. Even as his patient load expanded, his take-home pay contracted, and he feared not having enough time to spend with… See more