Welcome to the Facility Portal. This portal is designed to provide our facilities a single point of entry for facility-related information, applications and requests. Here are a few resources available for participating facilities:
The End of Health Insurance Companies
February 02, 2012 - - Here’s a bold prediction for the new year. By 2020, the American health insurance industry will be extinct. Insurance companies will be replaced by accountable care organizations — groups of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers who come together to provide the full range of medical care for patients.
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Does Your Practice Provide Culturally Competent Care?
January 26, 2012 - - Culturally competent care requires a commitment from doctors and other caregivers to understand and be responsive to the different attitudes, values, verbal cues, and body language that people look for in a doctor's office by virtue of their heritage," says Oliver Goldsmith, MD, who championed this issue throughout his career at Kaiser Permanente before he retired as the medical director of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group.
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Is 2012 The Year Of Online Patients?
January 19, 2012 - - Meaningful Use programs, healthcare reform, and the public's love of mobile devices could add up to patients finally getting fully involved in their own care.
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Sharing EHR data results in $2M in savings across Memphis EDs
November 15, 2011 - - MEMPHIS, TN – Sharing electronic health information across every major emergency department in the Memphis, Tenn., area resulted in reduced hospital admissions, reduced radiology tests and an annual cost savings of nearly $2 million, according to a recent study conducted by Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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Physician Spotlight - Dr. Barbara Geater, Rentrop & Geater, PLLC
August 05, 2011 - - our physician community represents an integral piece of who we are and what we strive to achieve every day. That is why we will begin featuring the Physician Spotlight, a short feature for a physician who represents a commitment to the future of healthcare, a dedication to patients and our community, and is a leader in their field. We are proud to feature our first physician, Dr. Barbara Geater of Rentrop & Geater, PLLC.
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Methodist Healthcare changing domain name
June 22, 2011 - - Andy Fowler, Chief Information Officer of Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare, confirmed that they will be, "mapping all of the old [email] addresses over to the new domain." What this means is that all Methodist email addresses will no longer end with @methodisthealth.org. Beginning next week, MLH employees new email addresses will be formatted with their first name, period, last name, @mlh.org. Ex. john.doe@mlh.org.
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Make-A-Wish: Help your patient become a Wish kid
May 18, 2011 - - Make-A-Wish has the ability to grant more wish. But they need your help. Read this article and contact the local representative to begin the process of granting a deserving child an incredible wish.
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