For more than a decade Nueterra Healthcare has worked with physicians and health systems to expand health care options in their own communities. Together we have succeeded in forging new partnerships to develop surgery centers and hospitals where physicians take personal stakes in the health of their patients.
While our government has now banned the growth of physician ownership of hospitals, Nueterra is undaunted.
When they started the company, the founders of Nueterra believed in health care reform by putting more power in the hands of physicians to lower costs and improve outcomes. The government’s newly enacted restrictions on physician ownership haven’t changed our company’s purpose. We believe change creates opportunity, and Nueterra’s focus since its inception has been on creating new opportunities for physicians and health systems.
Our goal is to continue to keep our facilities vibrant by bringing in new physicians and developing innovative ways for physicians to share in the success of the effective delivery of quality health care services.
In the next few years, more than 30 million additional people will obtain insurance and become fully functional medical consumers. The models of physician ownership that we have created will be able to take advantage of new opportunities in the medical marketplace. Physician-owned hospitals and surgery centers are the “value-based healthcare” that the reform plan wants to achieve.
Nueterra is also exploring several innovative ownership models that will still allow physicians to be in control.
There is nothing to fear. Nueterra is going to continue to develop hospitals where doctors hold key management positions – where they will be able to govern and reap economic reward while providing quality care to their patients.