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“Our practice is deeply rooted in the community and we thought there was a natural progression here,” he said. In joining the hospital’s physician associates group, Weber said his practice was able to stay close to its patients and continue to have access to the operating rooms and other facilities it required – all while allowing the hospital to handle its administrative operations. “A lot is changing and I think the whole health reform movement is forcing everyone – doctors and hospitals – to think about what the future looks like,” Schandler said. Like Weber’s practice, private practices are increasingly finding they can hand off administrative operations to a hospital or larger multispecialty group while still expanding their own practices and taking on new patients, Schandler said. “These are very complex, very time-consuming, very difficult investments to make,” Schandler said of those administrative duties. “I think we take a lot of that burden off doctors.”
Weiser said the results have been tangible. “The medicine part is the same whether you’re doing it in a private practice or a hospital. But there are all of those other things … here the focus is on taking care of patients and letting the hospital do the rest,” he said. “And everyone benefits. Patients don’t have to go into the city to get state-ofthe-art care.” In the past, Westchester-based doctors and their patients often had to travel to New York City for certain procedures. Now, “The strategy is to make sure that we’re keeping those resources here,” said Susan Fox, senior vice president of administration at White Plains Hospital and the architect of the physician associates group. “As we move forward, we may choose to add other specific practices that aren’t yet in the community,” Fox said. Both Weiser and Weber also cited the ease with which they are able to connect with the White Plains Hospital administrative staff to address various issues. “When you’re trying to get something done at a large academic medical center or even a multispecialty group, there are layers,” Weber said. “Now, when I identify a problem, a need, I can address it immediately.”
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