Thursday, May 29, 2014

Getting along in New Jersey

An interesting story by Marketplace's Dan Gorenstein about an unusual level of cooperation among some hospitals in NJ.  Excerpt:

What is out of reach for most patients in America is becoming a reality in one of America’s poorest and most troubled cities, Camden, New Jersey.

“You get three health systems to come together who are competitors who on Monday, Wednesday and Friday want to kill each other in the marketplace, but on Tuesday and Thursday are putting together a coalition that is taking better care of patients at lower costs,” says Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli, a Senior Vice President at Cooper University Health System in Camden.

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