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As physicians and health systems strive to adapt to new financial and regulatory challenges, Southwind has experienced a remarkable level of interest in our services. In particular, our team's expertise in creating sustainable hospital-sponsored employed physician enterprises is in high demand. In response to this growth in demand, we have carefully and deliberately expanded our consulting and interim management team to meet the increased need for quality expert advice and interim management.

• Creating Positive Change in the Physician-Hospital Relationship
• Highlights from the First Southwind Institute
• Optimizing the Value of Your Employed Physician Strategy
• New Southwind Consultants Add Strength to Revenue Cycle and Finance Services

During the past eight years at Southwind, we have been privileged to work with many outstanding physician leaders across the country. Because effective physician leadership is so critical to the success of any physician organization, we thought it appropriate to recognize just a few of the outstanding physician leaders with whom we have been honored to work.

• Atlanta-based Physician Leader Focuses on Quality Through Managed Care Contracting
• Early Aptitude for Business Serves Academic Medical Center Leader Well
• "Servant Leadership is the Key to Team Building" Says Anesthesiologist Turned Physician CEO
• Growing Independent Medical Group from 45 to 120 Physicians Heightens Complexity for Physician CEO
• Physician Leads New HMO-sponsored Primary Care Clinic Strategy Dedicated to Medicare Advantage Patients

New safe harbor exceptions for the donation of EMR technology to physicians by hospitals have paved a new path in physician alignment strategies.

• Reasonable and Fair Market Value Compensation
• Revenue Cycle, Operations Specialist Joins Southwind

Healthcare professionals have watched with interest the U.S. Department of Justice's suit against Alvarado Hospital in San Diego (United States v. Barry Weinbaum, Tenet Healthsystem Hospitals Inc., and Alvarado Hospital Medical Center Inc.). The case ended in two mistrials. The government has sought through regulatory means to exclude Alvarado Hospital from participation in Medicare and Medicaid programs.

• The Alvarado Case
• Senior Development, Consumer healthcare strategist joins Southwind
• Southwind Extends Depth in Revenue Cycle Management
• Southwind Augments Physician Practice Management Capabilities

Listening carefully to clients is the backbone of Southwind's success as a physician practice management and consulting firm. While we strive to accurately understand each client's unique situation during every interaction, from time to time we find it instructive to ask our clients for honest feedback about our overall performance.

• Can Southwind Be As Effective at Twice Its Size?
• Survey Reveals Key Strengths
• Southwind Executive Team: The Key to Client Satisfaction
• Key Requirements for Community Need Based Physician Manpower Planning

Nationally Recognized Expert in Physician Manpower Planning, Physician Compensation Planning, and Physician Recruitment / Retention will augment Southwind's Physician Practice Management Services.

Southwind was asked to provide the services of an interim CEO for a newly forming gastroenterology group practice in the Seattle area. Three separate boards of the originating group practices identified a bold and creative strategy aimed to improve quality, strategic positioning, efficiency of operations and managed care clout. At the eleventh hour, that strategy and the associated effort were put at substantial risk by the departure of the administrative leader just a few days prior to the merger.

On May 10-11, 2004, I attended a meeting of over 4,000 presidents, chairmen, CEOs, owners, partners and other executives, known as the "World Business Forum," at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The symposium featured ten eminent leaders and thinkers, listed in order of appearance, speaking on a broad range of subjects that encompassed the political, the academic and the practical...

• Letter from John A. Deane, President, Southwind
• Peter Kindrachuk Joins Southwind as EVP/COO
• Southwind Participates in NYC World Business Forum: Leadership Speaks
• Margaret Hoban Appointed Senior Vice President Southwind Revenue Cycle Solutions
• Eric Passon Joins Southwind as Consultant

First Southwind Stakeholder Survey Illuminates Five Years of Positive Results.

"We wanted to know what we are doing right and what we could be doing better."
John Deane, President, Southwind