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IPC - The Hospitalist Company to Provide Hospitalist Services at Memorial Health System of East Texas

Posted on: Monday, 2 July 2007, 12:17 CDT

IPC -- The Hospitalist Company announced today the launch of a new hospitalist program at Memorial Health System of East Texas in Lufkin, Texas, an acute care facility serving nearly 80,000 people. Initially, the hospitalists will care for unassigned emergency room patients, as well as patients who are transferred to Lufkin Medical Center from its sibling hospitals in Livingston and San Augustine, Texas.

Memorial Health System selected IPC because of its reputation as a high-quality hospitalist company and the efficient, high level of care delivered by its hospitalist physicians at the Texas Medical Center in Houston.

"After deciding that a hospitalist program would help us better serve our patient population here at Memorial, we approached IPC to develop a hospitalist program because we have seen the impressive results of their efforts," said Bryant H. Krenek, Jr., president and chief executive officer of Memorial Health System. "Additionally, with IPC, we will have local management as a single point of contact to ensure responsiveness to the needs of our medical staff and patients as the program expands."

"We're excited to have the opportunity to bring the IPC model to this prestigious facility and provide dedicated physicians backed by sophisticated support systems to enhance inpatient care," said Fred Grates, executive director of IPC-Houston, which serves several hospitals and long-term acute care facilities in the Houston area. "The practice at Memorial now has one full-time and one part-time hospitalist and our goal is to have three to five hospitalists to accommodate all private practitioners in the community who would like to have IPC physicians care for their hospitalized patients."

About Memorial Health System of East Texas

As the largest health care system in the deep East Texas area, Memorial Health System of East Texas is a private, not-for-profit hospital that provides care to almost 80,000 patients each year. Since its inception in 1949, Memorial Health System has paved the way for quality, innovative health care in East Texas. In fact, Memorial consistently ranks among the nation's best for exceptional health care and patient satisfaction. A 234-bed acute care facility, Memorial offers a wide array of services, including the newly renovated Arthur Temple, Sr. Regional Cancer Center, which has earned a three-year seal of approval with commendation from the Commission on Cancer. Additionally, Memorial is a regional cardiac care center affiliated with the Methodist-DeBakey Heart Center in Houston. The hospital also is known for providing the area's only comprehensive diabetes center--The Horace C. Polk Regional Diabetes Center. Other centers of excellence include the Temple Imaging Center that offers some of the most advanced procedures in the area, including PET scanning, 64 Slice CT scanning, and digital mammography. The System also is home to the Memorial Specialty Hospital, one of only two rural long-term acute care facilities. Other specialty areas include Women's Services, Inpatient and Outpatient Rehabilitation, Homecare, Wound and Hyperbaric Therapy, Kidney & Diabetes Treatment, Sleep Disorders Treatment, and Express Lab. Memorial Health System of East Texas--founded and funded by the people it serves.

About IPC -- The Hospitalist Company

IPC -- The Hospitalist Company -- is a leading provider of hospitalist medicine in the United States. Founded by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Adam Singer, M.D. in 1995, IPC owns or provides management services to hospitalist practices operating in over 200 facilities across 15 states. Supported by its proprietary IPC-LINK® information technology, IPC delivers physician-driven, hospital-specific solutions to improve the quality of inpatient care and the satisfaction of medical and nursing staff. IPC also provides other corporate services such as billing and collections, provider recruitment, marketing, training and education. IPC employs more than 600 healthcare providers and also offers selected services to non-IPC providers. For more information, visit www.hospitalist.com.

Source: Business Wire

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