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…
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…
May 9, 2024
Seeking change and stability, a medical center in Florida turned to their existing provider for emergency medicine, hospitalist and anesthesiology services for their OB/GYN hospitalist services. After just one year, the service line is fully staffed, medical students now covet rotations at the facility and the collaboration between nursing, physicians and the hospital leadership has…
October 30, 2023
When an acute care hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, noticed an increased length of stay (LOS), TeamHealth hospitalist leadership shifted the inpatient culture to bring metrics into the desired range. Reduced LOS and Improved Performance The hospital’s LOS was higher than desired, hovering around 6.2 days on average. In addition, the emergency department (ED) had seen…
October 20, 2023
A Chicago hospital, together with its interventional radiology partner and TeamHealth – who provided hospitalist and intensivist services – embarked on a collaborative effort to reduce hospital-acquired infections. By evaluating, modifying and adapting infection prevention best practices, the team saw a steep reduction in harms cases – and no CLABSI infections in over 18 months….
October 18, 2023
A 2023 report ranked Delaware as the state with the second longest emergency department (ED) wait times in the country, with an average of 215 minutes from arrival to movement to a treatment area. Other important benchmarks such as left without being seen (LWBS) rates and patient satisfaction scores suffer in relation. However, Saint Francis…
September 7, 2023
Skagit Valley Hospital is a 137-bed, full-service hospital serving community and regional needs in Washington. When the emergency department team sought strengthened performance, they created a collaborative and effective ED process improvement program. The Challenge Skagit Valley Hospital has a busy 25-bed (17 medical, four trauma and four behavioral health) emergency department (ED). When volume…