IPC The Hospitalist Company, a national hospitalist physician group practice, has acquired Senior Care of Colorado, headquartered in Aurora, Colo.
SCOC provides geriatric care at more than 200 facilities in the Denver metro area and has an annualized volume of more than 200,000 patient encounters. The acquisition is an expansion of operations for IPC in Colorado, where the company has provided acute care hospitalist services since 2003.
“The acquisition of SCOC represents continued expansion for IPC into the long-term care arena, providing IPC with the opportunity to further improve the management and coordination of care for seniors that move between different types of facilities as their condition warrants,” said Adam Singer, MD, IPC's chairman and CEO. “Working in concert with IPC's acute care hospitalist practices, we believe the providers at SCOC will be able to deliver an improved and more comprehensive care experience for patients and their families."
Michael Wasserman, MD, and Don Murphy MD, co-founders of SCOC, will continue to practice at IPC, with Murphy in the position of practice group leader for geriatric care.
“The practice of long-term care needs to move toward providing a true continuum of care for our patients,” Wasserman said. “The IPC/Senior Care partnership is well situated to do just that in Colorado."