Led partly by health care reform, two of the Hartford area’s largest private obstetrics-gynecology groups are merging to form Women’s Comprehensive Health Care, effective Nov. 1, officials say.
Hartford Obstetrical and Gynecological Group, and Farmington Obstetrics and Gynecology Group are combining their practices that includes 14 health professionals and 60 administrative staffers to four remaining offices in Avon, Hartford, Farmington and Glastonbury.
The combination will be the largest in Connecticut for the Physicians For Women’s Health network — a 12-year alliance of practitioners promoting economies of scale to improve patient care — and the biggest private ob/gyn practice for Hospital Hospital, said Hartford Ob/Gyn Group partner Janice M. Hartnett, M.D.
For more than two years, both practices have had a formal working relationship, providing cross coverage and some sharing of services for some 20,000 patients, Hartnett said.
“We want to improve patient care and economy of scale,”said Hartnett, who began her medical practice as a second career four years ago.
Hartford Ob/Gyn has seven physicians and a registered nurse; Farmington Ob/Gyn has five physicians. A 13th physician is joining the combined organization, authorities said.
Patients of both will share the expertise from both programs in in-house mammography, bone density and imaging services, in office and robotic surgeries, and genetic counseling.
