Just What The Doctor Ordered

Along with growth, mergers bring the increased pressure of giving timely service to even more customers. This has been the biggest challenge that mergers have brought to Harter, who has seen the number of regional centers (clinics) under Marshfield's umbrella grow rapidly.

"Some of the communities in northern Wisconsin are fairly small communities that desired to work with us," Harter says. "I guess the term we could use is partners. They just have to practice medicine and the system will take care of the rest."