As healthcare shifts from fee-for-service to value-based care, quality-driven post-acute care is crucial for maintaining patient health and long-term outcomes. Innovative solutions are needed to meet the challenges faced by post-acute care facilities, including skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), assisted living facilities (ALFs), and nursing homes. Therefore, choosing a partner capable of assisting post-acute care organizations…
The opportunity to improve patient experience in perioperative spaces remains largely untapped. However, this critical juncture is vital for care quality, patient retention, and more. Programs targeted to improve anesthesiology patient experience can have wide-ranging positive effects. Systematic deployment of clinical education and communication is central to TeamHealth’s proprietary patient experience program, APEX. Anesthesiology Patient…
May 4, 2023
The term “value-based care” has become synonymous with change in healthcare in recent years. While the idea behind the model has long roots in American healthcare, the iterations we now see have complex evolutions and require adaptive responses from all levels of the healthcare industry. Decades of history and recent events helped shape the landscape…
April 9, 2024
In January 2021, TeamHealth’s hospital medicine service line began a robust length of stay (LOS) pilot project, spearheaded by the Length of Stay Committee, to determine proof of concept for the TeamHealth LOS Program. The project’s aim was to determine if the implementation and execution of the TeamHealth Hospital Medicine Length of Stay (LOS) program…
January 31, 2024
When a Florida healthcare system desired to standardize perioperative protocols, they engaged their existing anesthesia partner, TeamHealth, to lead implementation of a perioperative care pathway that would standardize clinical care and reduce patients’ use of narcotics. The Challenge Targets defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and National Health Care Priorities for…
Palestine Regional Medical Center, a 160-bed rural hospital in eastern Texas, sought to improve patient experience after the tumult of the COVID-19 pandemic. Working collaboratively with their emergency medicine and hospitalist partner, TeamHealth, the facility embarked on a process improvement project to enhance patient experience and sustain performance. The Challenge Palestine Regional Medical Center is…
August 8, 2023
A brand-new and much-anticipated facility in South Carolina opened in late 2022. After the COVID-19 pandemic halted construction, the health system’s leadership was eager for a grand opening that provided seamless care to the community. Rising to the call, TeamHealth worked with system and facility leadership to build a collaborative and successful plan to open…