Practice Management Partner Solutions for Hospitals

When a hospital CEO selects a practice management partner, they most often face one of two options: local physician groups with deep community ties or national corporations with extensive infrastructure. It’s a limited-choice dilemma that should not exist.

At Core Clinical Partners, we’ve pioneered a third path, one that delivers the best of both worlds. It combines authentic local engagement with robust national resources. This approach has enabled us to create transformative clinical partnerships across the country while maintaining the personalized touch that healthcare systems and their communities deserve.

The Challenge: Local Connection vs. National Support

Today, hospitals face a “Goldilocks dilemma” when choosing a practice management partner:

“A large national group may bring scale and data but often has limited engagement from the clinicians on the ground. A small local group excels in community alignment but may lack the infrastructure to handle changing regulations and analytics needs. The ideal solution is ‘just right’—the perfect blend of local responsiveness and national expertise.”

The Core Difference: Locally Engaged, Nationally Resourced

Core Clinical Partners was founded to eliminate this compromise. Our model integrates the strengths of both approaches while avoiding their respective weaknesses.

We believe that successful clinical partnerships begin with local leadership and genuine community engagement. Our Medical Directors and clinical leaders are deeply embedded in their hospital communities, maintaining authentic relationships that drive collaboration and build trust. This local team has decision-making authority and the flexibility to adapt to each hospital’s unique needs.

At the same time, Core’s national infrastructure supports these local leaders with sophisticated data analytics, specialized recruiting networks, proven operational frameworks, and experienced administrative teams. These resources amplify the effectiveness of our local clinicians without diminishing their autonomy or community connections.

Local Engagement: The Foundation of Exceptional Care

What does authentic local engagement look like in practice?

Core begins with our leadership selection process. We prioritize clinicians who demonstrate a genuine commitment to their communities and hospitals. Many of our Medical Directors have practiced in their facilities for years or even decades, building relationships and cultural understanding that rotating clinicians can’t replicate.

Our clinicians participate actively in hospital leadership, serving on key committees and collaborating on strategic initiatives. They aren’t just contractors providing services; they’re integrated partners invested in the hospital’s overall success.

Perhaps most importantly, we foster stability in our teams. While many national groups experience high turnover rates, Core’s model emphasizes clinician satisfaction and retention. This stability builds institutional knowledge, strengthens clinical outcomes, and enhances patient experience.

National Resources: Amplifying Local Excellence

While local engagement forms our foundation, national resources provide the infrastructure that enables exceptional clinical performance:

Data Analytics and Performance Improvement: Our proprietary Core Analytics platform delivers actionable insights on metrics ranging from throughput to patient satisfaction. These tools allow our local teams to identify opportunities, implement targeted improvements, and demonstrate measurable value to hospital partners.
Recruitment and Retention: Our national recruiting team utilizes sophisticated sourcing strategies and an extensive physician network to identify clinicians who will thrive in each specific hospital environment. This capability is particularly valuable in today’s challenging clinician labor market.
Operational Expertise: Core’s leadership team brings decades of collective experience managing emergency medicine and hospital medicine programs across diverse settings. This expertise allows us to share best practices while respecting each hospital’s unique needs.
Administrative Support: Our centralized administrative functions, including credentialing, scheduling, and billing optimization, reduce the burden on local physicians, allowing them to focus on clinical excellence and hospital partnership.

Case Study: Remote Supervision Model Transforms Hospital Medicine

Our implementation of a remote supervision model for Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) in Hospital Medicine showcases one powerful example of Core’s innovative approach.

This model pairs four APPs with a remotely supervising Hospitalist, allowing each APP to round on approximately 15 patients daily, while ensuring quality care through local oversight.

The results have been nothing less than remarkable—a 30% reduction in labor costs alongside improved clinical outcomes, including reduced Average Length of Stay (ALOS) and Geometric Mean Length of Stay (GMLOS). This approach demonstrates how Core’s blend of local engagement and national resources creates solutions that benefit patients, providers, and hospitals alike.

As Core CEO Dr. Boykin Robinson explains: “Core is adaptable and well-positioned to help our hospital partners solve for problems that are consistent across the industry in an individual way. We have a huge opportunity to forge unique partnership models.”

Leadership Perspectives on the Core Approach

Core’s leadership team brings decades of combined healthcare experience to every partnership. They share a vision of transforming hospital-based medicine.

Dr. Rachel Thompson, Core’s Chief Medical Officer and former President of the Society of Hospital Medicine, emphasizes the human element of successful partnerships: “Leadership training could just as easily be called Humanism Training. For the individual, it means working on three practices daily: patience, active listening, and empathy.”

This people-first approach extends throughout the organization. As COO Jessica Long notes, the Core difference is built on being “adaptable and well-positioned to help our hospital partners solve for problems that are consistent across the industry in an individual way.”

The Core Promise: Partnership Without Compromise

At Core, we reject the notion that hospitals must choose between local engagement and national resources. Our integrated approach delivers both, creating partnerships that truly transform clinical performance.

For hospital leaders who are tired of cycling through clinical partners that lack resources or local investment, Core provides a different path—one that empowers physicians locally and supports them nationally.

“Every hospital partnership we’ve started has seen improved key metrics, whether in patient flow, clinician retention, quality outcomes, or financial performance,” notes Dr. Robinson. “What we’ve built at Core is a model that combines the personalized service and engagement of a local group with the resources and proficiencies of a national company.”

The result is a clinical partnership model that adapts to each hospital’s unique needs while maintaining the consistency and excellence that only national resources can provide. It’s not just a better way to deliver emergency and hospital medicine—it’s a better way to build lasting healthcare partnerships.