Health Care Partnerships Expand Care for California Patients

Content Trio

  • Health Care Partnerships: Vital Resources During Public Health Crises

    “When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s no doubt in my mind that if Prime was not here, the surge would have crushed this hospital … We were able to pivot quickly — from securing massive amounts of PPE for staff and patients, to getting a federal DMAT team, to expanding ICU capacity, flexing beds, and even standing up care tents in our parking lot.”

    – Dan Jones, CPPS, FACHE, CEO, St. Francis Medical Center

  • Health Care Partnerships: Preserving Access to Care

    “Our mission is to care for the poor and vulnerable. Regardless of their ability to pay, patients in the San Fernando Valley who seek care at the Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center will receive care as good or better than what they could get by driving ‘over the hill’ to the hospital in Los Angeles.”

    – Bernie Klein, Interim CEO, Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center

  • Health Care Partnerships: Keeping Care Affordable

    “We saw the creation of a new system as an opportunity to realize our fundamental belief that everyone has the right to be healthy…The ability to scale our strengths — evidence-based practices, clinical expertise, technological resources — across the health system footprint means that we can bring much-needed quality health care to people who might not otherwise have access to this level of service.”

    – Charlie Francis, senior executive vice president, chief strategy and transformation officer, CommonSpirit

Expert Analysis: Video

Two prominent health care experts explain how patients benefit from health care partnerships:

• Preserving Access to Care
• Responding to the Pandemic
• Protecting Patients

Did You Know?

Consumers in states where health care is highly integrated through partnerships may have more affordable insurance premiums and lower per capita health care expenditures. Nationally, nearly 80% of the most highly integrated states, including California, had total annual premiums below the national average.

Health care organizations use a range of partnerships, affiliations, mergers, and acquisitions to expand and preserve services — and to financially sustain essential health care resources. These partnerships help patients by:

  • Delivering care closer to home at facilities across broad geographic regions
  • Offering access to specialty services, like cardiac care and organ transplantation
  • Providing advanced clinical expertise

A new report from renowned consulting firm Kaufman Hall shows how these partnerships save lives, maintain access to care, and lower costs for Californians.

In a separate analysis, the firm examines how many hospitals rely on these partnerships for financial support to protect care delivery.

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