Bay Area ACO Co-Founded By UCSF Adding 3 Dignity Hospitals To In-Network Provider List
The expansion of the Canopy network is part of a broader push by providers to better compete with Kaiser Permanente and Sutter Health, the two dominant health systems in the Bay Area.
The Mercury News:
Dignity Health, UCSF Health Announce Bay Area Collaboration
Dignity Health and UCSF Health on Tuesday announced a new affiliation that will bring UCSF Health’s academic expertise to three Dignity Health hospitals in the Bay Area: Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, and Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco. The organizations also have signed a letter of intent for doctors at Dignity Health Medical Group Sequoia and at Dignity Health Medical Group Saint Francis/St. Mary’s to collaborate with UCSF clinical faculty in sharing best practices and improving access, quality, efficiency and coordination of care for shared patients. (Seipel, 8/8)
San Francisco Chronicle:
UCSF, Dignity To Expand Bay Area Accountable Care Network
With the new Dignity additions — St. Mary’s Medical Center and St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, and Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City — the Canopy network will have 4,000 physicians, 16 hospitals and about 15,000 patients, or “members.” This means that any Dignity patient who gets insurance through Health Net Blue & Gold HMO — the approved insurance plan for the Canopy network — will have access to UCSF doctors, and vice versa. (Ho, 8/8)
In other hospital news —
East Bay Times:
UCSF And Stanford In Top 20 In US News Hospital Rankings
The Bay Area has two of the top ten medical institutions in the nation, according to the US News & World Report’s 2017-2018 Best Hospitals survey. UCSF Medical Center ranks fifth and Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital ranks ninth, according to the popular accolade, released Tuesday. An increasing number of organizations, such as Consumer Reports and the federal government’s Medicare and Medicaid Services, evaluate hospitals on a broad array of data-driven measures. (Krieger, 8/8)