Two California health systems have announced plans to affiliate and combine academic medicine and community-based care in the San Francisco Bay area. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has joined forces with a group of community hospitals that include Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health Care System, and Community Medical Center (CMC) in Santa Monica, Calif., to
Two California health systems have announced plans to affiliate and combine academic medicine and community-based care in the San Francisco Bay area. Dignity Health and UCSF Health said the agreement will allow the organizations to increase access to high-quality, affordable care to patients who live in the Bay Area.