05/11/2026
In a recent Leadership Page published in , Immediate Past Christopher M. Kramer, MD, MACC, and ACC leaders Geoffrey A. Rose, MD, FACC, and Edward T. A. Fry, MD, MACC, explore the implications of growing health system consolidation for cardiovascular medicine.
Together, they outline how scale can offer meaningful advantages, including lower costs, greater workforce stability and opportunities for innovation, while cautioning that these gains are not automatic. Emphasizing health care as a complex adaptive system, they call for broader leadership models that incorporate clinician voice to ensure any consolidation supports higher‑value, patient‑centered cardiovascular care.
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