Intermountain Health Exec: Hub-and-Spoke Models Could Save Rural Healthcare
Dan Liljenquist, Intermountain Health’s chief strategy officer at Intermountain Health, said that more large health systems should employ a hub-and-spoke model to ensure that rural providers can thrive. Under this model, large health systems partner with rural hospitals — with the rural “spoke” hospitals gaining access to the larger “hub” health system’s technology, staff, medication discounts and more. The post Intermountain Health Exec: Hub-and-Spoke Models Could Save Rural Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
Dan Liljenquist, Intermountain Health’s chief strategy officer at Intermountain Health, said that more large health systems should employ a hub-and-spoke model to ensure that rural providers can thrive. Under this model, large health systems partner with rural hospitals — with the rural “spoke” hospitals gaining access to the larger “hub” health system’s technology, staff, medication discounts and more.
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