Future of Healthcare
The Value of 24/7 In-House Intensivist Coverage
by: USACS
Hospitals across the country are implementing 24/7 in-house Intensivist coverage. The pressure COVID-19 places on ICUs has accelerated this trend. Regardless of the pandemic’s impact, numerous studies show that in-house Intensivist services positively impact patient outcomes, nursing and provider satisfaction, and overall quality and efficiency, especially in high acuity, high volume hospitals such as tertiary […]
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Going virtual during a pandemic: Telehealth changes the game for Bristol Health
by: USACS
Throughout our physician-owned group, medical directors have been helping their hospital partners thrive during the COVID-19 pandemic in very difficult circumstances. “Like most hospitals, ours saw a 50% decrease in volume early in the pandemic. Yet we knew that of course, patients still needed care. We were forced to be creative in finding solutions to […]
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Caring for Patients; Caring for Community
by: USACS
Meeting Patients Where They Are Carol Scott, MD, MSEd, FACEP is a gifted doctor for whom healing goes much deeper than treating and releasing emergency department patients. She’s also passionate about educating her community – and preventing patients from needing her services in the first place. “My background is in medicine, but I also consider […]
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Taking Provider-in-Triage Efficiencies to the Next Level with Collaborative Focus on Appropriate Timely Discharges and Admissions
October 21st, 2020by: USACS
Many emergency departments do not focus resources on lobby triage. This is due, in part, to a misconception that the most influential patient entry point is ED traffic from EMS. This perspective results in strong team members and efficiency and quality strategies being allocated outside of lobby triage. In this post, former VEP Healthcare Chief […]
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Standardizing the language of Telemedicine
by: USACS
Creating consistent language helps clinicians and patients alike. USACS’ Chief Medical Officer Amer Aldeen, MD, FACEP and National Director of Clinical Innovation Jesse Pines MD, MBA, MSCE have authored the PAACT Classifications for Acute Care Telemedicine. See it in ACEP Now’s article: https://www.acepnow.com/article/its-time-to-standardize-the-nomenclature-of-acute-care-telemedicine/
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A Growing Trend: Dr. Jesse Pines Moves to USACS
by: USACS
On July 12th, a widely known, highly accomplished emergency physician from one of the country’s finest academic institutions tweeted the announcement that Dr. Jesse Pines had joined US Acute Care Solutions: wow, I missed that @DrJessePines is moving to @USACSolutions Congrats to Jesse and huge gain for USACS. interesting data point in shifting sands of […]
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Answering the Call at Summa Health’s Residency Program
by: Dr. Travis Ulmer
As emergency medicine physicians, we have more or less self-selected careers in which we “answer the call” when we are needed. Even so, this was not the kind of call I was expecting while on winter vacation with my family and friends. In the days just after Christmas this past December, I was in Hocking Hills […]
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Change Management and Echo Consulting – Where the Rubber Hits the Road
January 9th, 2017by: Mary Jo Snyder
There are few words in the business world open to as much interpretation as integration. In health care, the word is suddenly ubiquitous. It’s part of the language of health care’s brave new world. And it leaves oh so many details shrouded in mystery. The new integrated acute care program at US Acute Care Solutions […]
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Physician Burnout Challenges Our Assumptions
December 7th, 2016by: Dr. Anoop Kumar
I probably set a record for the earliest a physician ever burned out: less than a year after earning my MD. Some may not call it burnout; it could just as well be called “internship.” I call it burnout because beyond the exhaustion and can’t-take-it-anymore, there was a gnawing sense that something fundamental was missing […]
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A Better Way to Manage Acute Care
November 3rd, 2016by: Dr. Tim Corvino
A few weeks ago, we received a letter from a patient who had recently been treated at one of our integrated acute care locations at Somerset Hospital. The patient had come to the emergency department and was ultimately admitted to the hospital. The letter detailed how grateful he was that the same physician assistant who […]
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