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 Strategic Planning
Partnerships Key to Expanding
Medical Services
Third in a Series (Posted March 10, 2006)
By Ken Bank, President and CEO of Northfield Hospital
In newspaper columns I have written over the past two months, I have focused on Northfield Hospital’s efforts to expand medical services in Northfield and surrounding communities. One of our major goals is to create a system of primary care clinics that will allow us to expand the patient population we serve. A second major goal is to develop a broader array of specialty services in order to meet the needs of this larger patient population.
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Hospital Plans for the Future - Part II
(Posted January 16, 2006)
By Ken Bank, President and CEO of Northfield Hospital
A few weeks ago, I explained that with a new medical campus and a comprehensive information system now in place, the strategic focus for Northfield Hospital over the next several years will be to expand medical services both in and around Northfield. I also described four Critical Success Factors in achieving this vision, one of which was to create a system of primary care clinics to support the expansion of the physician base utilizing Northfield Hospital, particularly in primary care areas such as family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics and Ob/Gyn. I would like to explain why this is such an important effort.
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Hospital Plans for the Future - Part I
(Posted January 2006)
By Ken Bank, President and CEO of Northfield Hospital
"Within the next five years, Northfield Hospital will become a regional medical destination supported by referrals from a system of primary care clinics. These referrals will provide the patient base to support a broader range of full-time specialty practices, ranging from ENT and urology to cardiology and oncology, that are centered in Northfield.”
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