Bruce Bethancourt, MD on building the medical group of tomorrow (transcript)

This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Dr. Bruce Bethancourt, chief medical officer of St. Vincent Medical Group. Dr. Bruce Bethancourt, MD, CMO of St. Vincent Medical Group David E. Williams: This is David Williams from the Health Business Group. I’m speaking today with Dr. Bruce Bethancourt. He is Chief Medical Officer of Saint Vincent Medical Group. Bruce, could you first describe Saint Vincent Medical Group and what your role is there? Dr. Bruce Bethancourt: Saint Vincent Medical Group is a relatively new group that came together three years ago. It’s really three groups. We have an amazing group of cardiologists that have been focused on quality care for more than 20 years. There is another group, who are cardiothoracic and cardiovascular surgeons that came in about two and half years ago. Then, the Saint Vincent Physician Network, which is a group of primary care physicians that came in two and half years ago as well. These groups came together and we’re now in the middle of developing a culture of patient-centric, high quality and high touch care. It’s a work in progress. My role as the CMO is to continue to bring the group together to become a cohesive, integrated physician group. Right now, we’re about 500, and when the pediatrics specialists folds in over the next year, we’ll add another 200. We should be 700 in total. We’re developing a culture of quality; moving towards the patient-centric model of medical home...
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