Centura Healthcare Selects Sound to Provide Inpatient Care
5/22/2007 (TACOMA, Wash.-DENVER, Business Wire) Sound Inpatient Physicians, a leading provider of inpatient care, has reached an agreement to provide hospitalist services for Centura Health, Colorado's largest family of hospitals and health care services.
Sound will serve four Centura Health facilities in the Denver metro area: St. Anthony's Central Hospital, St. Anthony North Hospital, Parker Adventist Hospital and Porter Adventist Hospital. Sound anticipates partnering with several additional hospitals in the Denver area in the coming months.
"Sound's clinical operations expertise is directed at today's health care challenges," notes Dr. Rob Bessler, president of Sound Inpatient Physicians. "Sound is redefining hospitalist medicine by addressing each of its partner hospital's aspirations and improving the delivery of care."
Sound Inpatient Physicians has developed and operates a unique hospitalist model that focuses on investing in, training and supporting hospitalist physicians. The model allows Sound to partner with its hospital clients to deliver efficient and cost-effective services. Sound's model provides manageable encounters, enabling physicians to deliver the best possible patient care while providing Sound physicians a satisfying career and lifestyle.
"We are excited to work with a proven hospitalist company known for great patient care, excellent service and strong physician teams," stated P. Terrence O'Rourke, MD, chief medical officer for Centura Health, Englewood, Colo.
Inpatient Services, P.C., based in Denver, merged with Sound February 15th, 2007. Founded in 1998, Inpatient Services is led by Dr. M-A Williams, chief medical officer for Sound's Rocky Mountain Region. "Bringing Sound's proven model to Denver benefits the entire community, including patients, primary care physicians as well as the hospital," said Dr. Williams. "Our physicians chose Sound because they are physician led and patient focused."
About Sound
Sound Inpatient Physicians is a leading hospitalist company currently providing inpatient physician services to hospitals located in Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, Oregon and Washington State. Sound's model focuses on training and supporting its physicians, delivering sophisticated services to hospital clients and developing innovative solutions to the clinical, administrative and fiscal challenges facing our nation's health care delivery system.
For additional information, contact:
Sound Inpatient Physicians
1709 Dock Street, Tacoma, WA 98402
888-682-1710, www.soundphysicians.com
