Integrated delivery networks. A system for the future. Genesys Health System designs and builds a patient-focused care delivery network.
St. Joseph Hospital, Flint, MI, formed Genesys Health System in 1981, affiliating with five area hospitals and a number of other healthcare organizations. In 1983 the system closed one of the hospitals. Genesys Health System's vision is described as a three-legged stool, with the integrated delivery system as the seat. That system balances on three legs: a strong primary and specialty care physician network; a financing, or insuring, mechanism; and a revolutionary hospital and delivery system with a full continuum of services across a range of institutional and home settings. Genesys has two physician joint ventures that will eventually become one as Genesys member hospitals' medical staffs merge. Member physicians are already linked by a common computer system and risk-sharing mechanisms. The physician-Genesys joint ventures have contractual arrangements with various managed care organizations. The system serves more than 50,000 persons enrolled with HealthPlus of Michigan and virtually all the 10,000 enrolled patients of Blue Care Network, the Blue Cross health maintenance organization. After evaluating the community's needs, Genesys Health System decided to build a new hospital; 439-bed Genesys Regional Medical Center at Health Park is scheduled to open in 1997. The new hospital will be the first in the United States to be designed and built using patient-focused care concepts.
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