WAMC: St. Peter’s CEO Weighs Future Of Health Care After Ruling

St. Peter’s Health Partners will build a two-megawatt solar farm that will produce enough green energy to offset about 10 percent of power consumed by St. Peter’s Hospital.

Dr. Ragavan Siddharthan, M.D., a colorectal surgeon with Capital District Colon & Rectal Surgery, discusses risk factors for colorectal cancer during an appearance on WAMC’s Medical Monday.

St. Peter’s Health Partners (SPHP) and six independent regional physician practices announced today the practices have joined the newly formed St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates, P.C., a non-profit, physician-governed, multi-specialty group that will function as a full affiliate corporation of SPHP. St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates, P.C., began operation on January 1, 2013. SPHP Medical Associates is one of the region’s largest multi-specialty physician group practices. The practices involved in today’s announcement include 106 physicians and 30 advanced practitioners in more than 12 specialties and subspecialties. These groups practice in more than 40 locations throughout a five-county region. All of the physicians and advanced practitioners have become employees of SPHP Medical Associates, as well as 451 additional individuals who were previously employed by the affiliating practices. The current practitioners creating SPHP Medical Associates will be joined later in 2013 by an additional 151 physicians and 36 advanced practitioners who are already employed by St. Peter’s Health Partners or one of its current affiliates – St. Peter’s Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, St. Mary’s Hospital or […]