When it comes to medical care, children are not just “little adults.” The field of Pediatric Emergency Medicine requires specialized knowledge, training and experience to effectively care for infants, children and adolescents—especially in an emergency, when every second counts. In fact, a study published in 2022 found that critically ill children are four times more…
December 13, 2022
Emergency medicine (EM) teams face many operational challenges which have only been compounded by the pandemic. Many teams lack the necessary data and analytic support to help build the right action plans. These complex and often interrelated problems leave many department leaders without a clear path forward. To support our clients, TeamHealth provides our proprietary…
November 15, 2022
Imagine for a moment that you have an upcoming surgery. How are you feeling? Maybe you’re anxious thinking about the process, anxious about your recovery and anxious for the results. You will see multiple healthcare clinicians and others the day of your surgery and be given an abundance of information. It is easy to become…
The scope was massive: a start-up involving 20 programs spread across six hospitals that included six adult EDs, four free-standing EDs, two pediatric EDs, six adult hospitalist programs, one pediatric hospitalist program and one palliative care program. More daunting than the scope? The timeline. We had 42 days beginning over the Thanksgiving holiday when our…
June 23, 2022
Imagine an obstetrics patient with a rare, high-risk complication of pregnancy. The care team calls for a community physician, who is at another hospital in the middle of another high-risk delivery. Nurses must attend to the birth without the presence of a physician. While undoubtedly capable, they understand the risk to the patient without having…
June 6, 2022
TeamHealth is achieving remarkable success through targeted deployment of its patient experience program, A-PEX (Achieving Peak Performance in Patient Experience), resulting in elevated scores within several hospitals in a large community-based health system. The Challenge A Texas-based multi-facility system including eight leading regional hospitals, and comprising one of the largest health systems in the…
The OB-ED: Redefining the Standard of Women’s Care Fundamentally changing how hospitals care for expectant mothers, the obstetrical emergency department (OB-ED) model enhances patient safety and clinical quality while also improving the patient experience. The OB-ED, an important innovation in women’s healthcare, redefines the standard for obstetrical care in the hospital setting while promoting patient…