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Ellis Medicine Bucking The Trend And Staying Independent

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In recent years hospitals have been joining together, establishing health care networks that often include a number of hospitals and health care facilities under one organizational structure, but one hospital is going in the other direction. 

Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, New York has decided to stay independent. Paul Milton, the president and CEO of Ellis Medicine, tells WAMC’s Brian Shields the board of trustees decided to remain independent after a two-year study evaluation process.

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