title: Deaconess Billings Clinic: a 'physician-led, professionally managed' model of integrated healthcare delivery.
abstract: When Deaconess Medical Center and its neighbor, Billings Clinic, merged in 1993, the goal was to reduce duplication and add new services. Three years later, they refocused on a higher level of integration--and, experts say, they're over the hump in achieving their goal.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Harris
mesh_terms: D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005376:Financial Management; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D007857:Leadership; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009009:Montana; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D008486:Physician Executives