Community hospitals forge clinical affiliations with academic medical centers
[Source: fiercehealthcare.com] Most often, one or more small hospitals will link up with a local leader, such as with the agreement between Boston's renowned Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and St. Anne's Hospital, part of Caritas Christi Health Care, in Fall River. Under that deal, Dana-Farber shares oncologists with St. Anne's and gives the smaller hospital's patients access to Dana-Farber's clinical trials, in which experimental treatments are tested, reports the Boston Globe.