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We are all patients: The importance of patient safety
March 12, 2021
Patient Safety Awareness Week is a time every year that we set aside to recognize the importance of patient safety. The TeamHealth Patient Safety Organization enhances the delivery of healthcare nationally. It is a priority for TeamHealth. In 2020, clinicians were strained mentally and physically throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but maintaining patient safety and...
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March 8-14 is Patient Safety Awareness Week!
March 10, 2020
Three pillars of excellent patient care are patient safety, clinical quality and risk management. At TeamHealth we have robust processes in place to ensure that we are successful with each pillar. In celebration of Patient Safety Awareness Week, let’s take a minute to recognize the great work that we do to enhance patient safety. One...
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Disaster Preparedness: Strategies for Managing the Unexpected
September 5, 2019
Hospitals must always be prepared to respond at a moment’s notice to powerful storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, mass casualty events and other potential disasters. If a disaster is preceded with sufficient warning such as weather reports, hospitals typically activate an incident command center that manages resources and response activities before, during and after the event. Similarly, some clinical outsourcing partners...
National Patient Safety Awareness Week 2019: The Opioid Work Group
March 12, 2019
National Patient Safety Awareness Week is March 10-16. Although the TeamHealth Patient Safety Organization has an extensive portfolio of initiatives in place, we want to highlight how the TeamHealth Opioid Work Group assists clinicians with improving patient safety and the quality of healthcare delivery in the midst of our nation’s opioid epidemic. According to Centers...
Anesthesiology in 2028
January 29, 2019
By Sonya Pease, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Anesthesiology Does anyone remember the Ploss Valve? It was this nifty little piece of plastic that created a switch valve that allowed us to simultaneously monitor the patients’ blood pressure, pulse and respirations through our earpiece. Long before the days of automated blood pressure cuffs and the invention...
The Surgical Solution Shop
November 1, 2018
By Sonya Pease, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Anesthesiology Our primary role as physicians and advanced practice clinicians (APCs) is to take great care of patients. In a healthcare environment so focused on costs as we shift to value-based care where reimbursement is tied to the quality and efficiency of the care delivered, it’s easy to...
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Critical Event Response: Las Vegas
August 21, 2018
By Miles Snowden, MD, Chief Medical Officer In choosing hospital and facility-based medicine, we have chosen to be responsible for the highest acuity of healthcare needs. More often than not, for patients and families, high-acuity care is delivered by unfamiliar clinicians at unexpected times and in foreign facilities. Practicing this type of medicine well—one patient...
TeamHealth Hospital Medicine Impacts Metrics at a Tennessee Hospital
July 26, 2018
In 2016, the leadership team at Tennova Cleveland in Cleveland, Tennessee met with TeamHealth’s new facility medical director (FMD) to discuss top priorities for the hospital medicine program’s performance enhancement, including improving relationships with community-based physicians, streamlining patient throughput and raising HCAHPS score metrics. The FMD devised plans to tackle all three issues, starting with...
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TeamHealth & Natural Disasters: Hurricane Irma Critical Response
July 10, 2018
By Miles Snowden, MD, Chief Medical Officer In choosing hospital and facility-based medicine, we have chosen to be responsible for the highest acuity of healthcare needs. More often than not, for patients and families, high-acuity care is delivered by unfamiliar clinicians at unexpected times and in foreign facilities. Practicing this type of medicine well—one patient...
So, You Want to be a Surgeon?
June 28, 2018
By Sonya Pease, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Anesthesiology It seems like there is so much focus on patient satisfaction and healthcare client satisfaction these days that we sometimes lose sight of the fact that it is the satisfaction of our surgeon colleagues that actually matters the most. Our surgeons are valuable customers, and it is...
Critical Events Response: Hurricane Harvey
June 19, 2018
By Miles Snowden, MD, Chief Medical Officer In choosing hospital and facility-based medicine, we have chosen to be responsible for the highest acuity of healthcare needs. More often than not, for patients and families, high-acuity care is delivered by unfamiliar clinicians at unexpected times and in foreign facilities. Practicing this type of medicine well—one patient...
Patient Experience of Care
May 1, 2018
By Kevin Klauer, DO, EJD, TeamHealth Chief Medical Officer for Hospital-Based Services, Chief Risk Officer Patient experience of care, historically referred to as patient satisfaction, is critically important to the success of any healthcare institution, organization and individual clinician. While healthcare organizations appropriately focus on important quality metrics reflecting clinical outcomes, the patient’s experience is...
Perioperative Integration Promotes Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
April 26, 2018
By Sonya Pease, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Anesthesiology TeamHealth Benefits of Integrating Perioperative Care Imagine for a moment that you’re a 50-year-old, otherwise, healthy patient with a new diagnosis of colon cancer found during routine screening colonoscopy. You now need a right colon resection. How do you select your surgeon or the hospital where you’ll...
TeamHealth Helps Improve Patient Satisfaction
April 24, 2018
Mount St. Mary’s Hospital developed an emergency department (ED) throughput initiative in response to patient satisfaction surveys and safety initiatives from The Joint Commission for improving wait times patient safety. The initiative had two goals: Move patients from the point of entry to meeting with the medical provider as quickly as possible. Increase communication with...
TeamHealth Helps CarolinaEast Medical Center Face Orthopedic Challenges
April 10, 2018
Several years ago, CarolinaEast Medical Center, located in New Bern, North Carolina, faced challenges with its emergency call coverage for orthopedic patients. CarolinaEast turned to the experts at TeamHealth, who ultimately worked with the hospital and the orthopedic physicians to design a hospitalist program that benefits all parties. Under the program, TeamHealth provides orthopedic hospitalists...