title: Aligning with physicians to regionalize services.
abstract: When effectively designed and implemented, regionalization allows a health system to coordinate care, eliminate redundancies, reduce costs, optimize resource utilization, and improve outcomes. The preferred model to manage service lines regionally will depend on each facility's capabilities and the willingness of physicians to accept changes in clinical delivery. Health systems can overcome physicians' objections to regionalization by implementing a hospital-physician alignment structure that gives a measure of shared control in the management of the organization.
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Fink
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D018578:Hospital-Physician Relations; D006801:Humans; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems; D012040:Regional Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States