IPC-The Hospitalist Company Expands Into Ocala, Florida, Through Acquisition of Hospital Care Providers, Inc.
Posted on: Monday, 23 January 2006, 09:00 CST
OCALA, Fla., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- IPC-The Hospitalist Company announced today that it has expanded into Ocala, Florida, through the acquisition of locally based Hospital Care Providers, Inc.
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Hospital Care Providers (HCP) has been providing hospitalist services in Ocala for the past six years, seeing a steady growth in volume during that time. The eight providers in HCP, all of whom have now joined IPC, assist more than 30 local primary care physicians in caring for hospitalized patients at all three hospitals in the Ocala area: Munroe Regional Medical Center, Ocala Regional Medical Center and West Marion Community Hospital (the latter two HCA facilities).
"Joining IPC provides us with a strong infrastructure that will allow us to better serve patients and physicians in the area," said HCP Medical Director Mike Doerflein M.D. "IPC's information technology systems are superior in allowing us to exchange information and communicate with referring physicians. We were also impressed with IPC's ability to recruit physicians and provide unparalleled training and mentoring for hospitalists."
IPC first entered Florida with the development of practices in Jacksonville in January 2005 and in Tampa a month later. Over the past year, the company has gone from start-up to employing 44 physicians who account for more than 130,000 annualized patient visits.
"We are very pleased with our growth in Florida over this past year and with the confidence physicians, hospitals and patients have shown in our team," said IPC Executive Director Larry Hanan. "Florida is an excellent marketplace with enormous growth potential, and we are continuing to aggressively recruit quality-minded physicians so we can keep up with the growing demand for our services."
Hospitalists, the nation's fastest-growing medical specialty, are acute-care specialists who focus on a patient's hospital care from time of admission to discharge. Increased evidence has shown that hospitalists improve quality of care and reduce healthcare costs while providing patients and their families the added comfort and security of having a physician on site to answer questions and coordinate all of the tests, treatments and services that take place within the hospital.
IPC, the nation's premier hospitalist company, collectively has more than one million patient encounters annually and manages more than $1 billion in healthcare expenditures each year. The company's consulting services division helps hospitals and other healthcare organizations launch new hospitalist programs or enhance existing ones. Information on IPC may be obtained at http://www.hospitalist.com/.
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