Modern Healthcare July 9, 2016
Dr. Theodore Strange and his 60 physician colleagues at the University Physicians Group in New York City will soon be hospital-employed again.
The practice, launched in 1991 as part of Staten Island University Hospital in New York City, became independent in 2002. But faced with the need to upgrade reporting systems, a shortage of capital and an aging leadership, the group will rejoin the hospital, now a part of Northwell Health (formerly North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System) on Aug. 1.
“We’ll have the financial capital to stay state of the art,” said Strange, 57.
The group that University Physicians is joining, Northwell Health Physician Partners, has more than 2,500 employed physicians and is the seventh-largest physician group practice in...
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