The Right Care at the Right Time in the Right Setting

Delivering the right care to a patient at the right time in the right setting are key elements to successful outcomes. Unfortunately, all three of these elements may not be as accessible in some markets that have experience high rates of healthcare consolidation.

Communities in which hospitals have merged, leave only one dominant player to treat patients; and in areas that community-based independent medical practices have been bought-out by hospital systems, patients are then funneled into hospital-owned medical offices, hospital-owned laboratories, hospital-owned imaging centers and hospital-owned inpatient care and rehab. In order to assure that patient care is offered in the right, patient preferred, most appropriate setting a community has to have more than one vertically consolidated setting for medical care.

Beneath the choppy surface of policymaking in Washington, DC, there may be an appetite among both parties to protect patients from the documented fallout of hospital consolidation. Join Patients and Providers United as it amplifies the voices of patients, providers and caregivers to protect patient access to care, preserve treatment options and prevent any barriers between patients and the healing care their physician prescribes for them.