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Shadow Rounding Enhances Perioperative Patient Experience

January 3, 2025

The perioperative space can be confusing for patients. Surgical procedures tend to be stressful events for patients, so while an often-overlooked focus area for patient experience, the perioperative space provides many opportunities to enhance patient experience and outcomes.  Fisher-Titus Medical Center in Norwalk, Ohio, partners with TeamHealth for anesthesiology services and has benefited from our…

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APEX Implementation Strengthens Patient Experience and Outcomes in Ohio

December 5, 2024

For many years, anesthesiology remained an overlooked area for enhancing patient experience. The perioperative space is an area of patient transition with untapped potential for strengthening patient communication, education and experience. TeamHealth’s proprietary patient experience program, APEX, and Performance Improvement Consultants (PIC) team empower anesthesiology teams with education and resources to help improve surgical patients’…

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Patient Blood Management (PBM) at a Florida Healthcare Facility Positively Impacts Care

September 4, 2024

Current transfusion practice has a significant impact on hospital resources, including operational budgets. Experience and data have demonstrated that bloodless patients, treated by protocol and without transfusions, have done as well or better than those who are routinely transfused. This care has evolved to include all patients under the PBM concept and provide a single…

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Improving Scheduling Enhances Anesthesia Clinician Satisfaction

August 13, 2024

Clinician satisfaction is key to healthcare delivery. However, the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, among other stressors, can negatively affect job satisfaction. Scheduling plays an outsized role in clinician satisfaction, and when effective scheduling is jeopardized, it can have negative effects beyond job satisfaction, particularly in anesthesia. A recent poll saw that while anesthesia…

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Performance Improvement in a High-Volume Emergency Medicine Setting

June 25, 2024

Sharp Grossmont Hospital (SGH) in La Mesa, California, part of Sharp HealthCare, has an emergency department (ED) patient volume of more than 112,000 visits each year. The facility faces many throughput and efficiency issues that are common to high-volume EDs, including capacity challenges, wait times, staffing and workforce issues, flexibility in treating a variety of…

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Clinical Integration Leads to Best-in-Market Performance

May 15, 2024

TeamHealth partners with a level-one trauma facility in South Florida for emergency medicine, hospital medicine, anesthesiology services and OB/GYN hospitalist coverage. The partnership elevates the level of care in the community and helps ensure the hospital’s operational excellence, with best-in-market clinical metrics. Clinical Integration Leads to Best-in-Market Performance Clinical integration bolsters communication and collaboration between…