A number of health care trends are converging at the neighborhood clinic. For one, advances in health care continue to expand what’s possible in the ambulatory care environment. “Nowadays in ambulatory care, what we do in the outpatient arena is what we used to do 10 years ago in an inpatient setting,” says Chris Backous, faculty member at the Virginia Mason Institute, a nonprofit education and training corporation affiliated with Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle.
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