July 27, 2022
Hospital Information St. Vincent’s Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama TeamHealth Services Emergency Medicine Hospital Medicine Challenge St. Vincent’s Birmingham is a 409-bed acute care hospital serving Birmingham, Alabama, and the surrounding communities. Due to poor patient flow out of the inpatient unit, the hospital’s busy emergency department faced backlogs leading to increased wait times, diminished capacity and…
July 21, 2022
Hospital Information A South Carolina-based integrated services client TeamHealth Services Emergency Medicine Hospital Medicine Challenge A South Carolina-based regional hospital faced collaboration and culture issues. These barriers were hampering efforts to enhance quality and had a negative effect on key performance indicators. To improve lagging metrics and enact cultural shifts, the facility partnered with clinical…
July 19, 2022
TeamHealth is enhancing outcomes and performance in facilities across the country with our proprietary A-PEX (Achieving Peak Performance in Patient Experience) program. In a community hospital, a hospital medicine team has achieved higher scores and continues to exceed national averages in patient experience after deployment of A-PEX in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Facility Information A…
July 11, 2022
Case Study: TeamHealth’s Acute General Surgery Programs Improve Care and Support Patient Retention Hospital Information Novant Health UVA Health System locations: Prince William Medical Center (Manassas, VA) Haymarket Medical Center (Haymarket, VA) TeamHealth Services Acute General Surgery The Challenge Two Virginia-based hospitals struggled with effective management of patients presenting in the emergency department (ED) with…
June 23, 2022
Change Management: Enhancing OB/GYN Care in a Florida Health System Case Study System Information A large South Florida public health system with community and regional facilities TeamHealth Services Provided OB/GYN Hospitalists Emergency Medicine Hospital Medicine The Challenge The need for emergency physician support was vital to helping the labor and delivery unit at this…
July 16, 2021
Hospital Information A 500-plus bed hospital in Kansas TeamHealth Services: Hospital Medicine Challenge When a system scorecard highlighted weaknesses within a 500-plus bed Kansas medical center’s hospitalist division and the facility’s other vital specialty departments, it signaled a need for culture change, better communication and more streamlined collaboration. Solution The hospital looked to TeamHealth to…
Hospital Information A 360-bed medical facility in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and its sister facility, a 466-bed hospital in Richmond, Virginia TeamHealth Services: Emergency Medicine (EM), Hospital Medicine (HM) Challenge Discharging patients earlier, when clinically appropriate, can significantly improve patient flow and hospital throughput (prior to 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. in hospital medicine patients)….