IPC The Hospitalist Company Changes Name To IPC Healthcare - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. (IPCM), a national hospital medicine and post-acute physician group practice company, said it has changed its name to IPC Healthcare, Inc.

"With more than 19 years of history, expertise and experience in hospital medicine, we are changing our name to reflect a natural progression for our company, which is now one of the leading organizations that is improving patient care nationally in both acute and post-acute settings," said Adam Singer, M.D., CEO and Chairman of IPC Healthcare.

He continued, "In addition to IPC's core hospitalist services in the acute-care arena, the company has expanded into important inpatient subspecialty areas, such as post-acute care, geriatrics, behavioral health, psychiatry, pediatric-hospitalists, physiatry, neuro-hospitalists, infectious disease and critical care. These combined specialties have a high impact on the cost and quality of episodes of care.

"With our focus on the most critical and costly aspects of healthcare delivery, IPC continues its aggressive growth, as well as its commitment to providing high-quality patient care with more than 1,800 providers in over 1,600 facilities," Singer added.

In the year 2014, IPC had over seven million patient encounters.