Leadership
USACS Clinical Resource Group Team publishes on Leader Standard Work
June 24th, 2022by: USACS
By Stephanie Kupec MSN, RN Senior Associate, Director of Site Optimization Leader Standard Work has been a focus of the Clinical Resource Group for the past three years. Leader Standard Work (LSW) is a concept that ensures standard work processes and practices are in place and consistently followed. This approach is a driver for leadership […]
read articlePosted in Hospital Partnership, Leadership
NCGB Awards: Honoring Dr. Joseph Pepe
by: USACS
National Clinical Governance Board’s Clinical Excellence Awards At the most recent US Acute Care Assembly, six of our outstanding clinicians received the USACS National Clinical Governance Board’s Clinical Excellence awards for their extraordinary work with our hospital partners. Isabelle Hertig, MD, Critical Care, Shady Grove Medical Center, nominated by Ajit Kuruvilla, MD Joseph Pepe, DO, Emergency […]
read articlePosted in General, Leadership
NCGB Clinical Excellence Awards: Honoring PA-C David Hoch
by: USACS
National Clinical Governance Board’s Clinical Excellence Awards At the most recent US Acute Care Assembly, six of our outstanding clinicians received the USACS National Clinical Governance Board’s Clinical Excellence awards for their extraordinary work with our hospital partners. Isabelle Hertig, MD, Critical Care, Shady Grove Medical Center, nominated by Ajit Kuruvilla, MD Joseph Pepe, DO, Emergency […]
read articlePosted in Leadership
Full Circle
March 17th, 2022by: USACS
Growing up, one of Dr. Janice Jones’ favorite things to do was to, with her father and sister, take her mom lunch at the hospital where she worked as a NICU nurse practitioner. She would get to go on a tour and remembers thinking that her mother did remarkable work. “Each year, there was a […]
read articlePosted in Future of Healthcare, Leadership, Life in the ER
International Women’s Day: Shining a Light into the Darkness
by: USACS
Shining a Light in the Darkness A Dream Fulfilled Since she was three years old, Jessica Munoz has worn a stethoscope around her neck, with the dream of offering healing and presence to people in their darkest moments. It was a dream realized early in life: she earned her BSN directly after high school and […]
read articlePosted in Leadership, Life in the ER, Servant's Heart, Where We Work
Celebrating Women: Words of Wisdom from an Admired USACS Physician
by: USACS
As we conclude Women’s History Month, The Shift had a conversation with one of the most admired leaders at US Acute Care Solutions, Chairman of the National Clinical Governance Board Joan Kolodzik, MD, FACEP, also a physician in the southwest Ohio area, serving clinically in many of the Mercy Health hospitals. Her home base is […]
read articlePosted in Leadership, Life in the ER, The Shift, Uncategorized
Dr. Rowland honored as one of Lake Health’s Physicians of the Year
by: USACS
Dr. Richard “Andy” Rowland was named one of Lake Health’s Physicians of the Year for his continued leadership, especially in 2020. Read our short interview with him, and you’ll understand why. Q&A Q. Tell us a little bit about yourself? My background includes training in biomedical engineering and medical devices prior to medical school as […]
read articlePosted in Leadership
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 […]
read articlePosted in Future of Healthcare, Hospital Partnership, Leadership
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. : Challenging Normal
by: USACS
By Jason Bolden, MD, FACEP, CDP As we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this weekend, I thought it would be of benefit to look beyond King’s iconic I Have a Dream speech during the March on Washington in 1963. The recent unrest of within our American society necessitates that we look inward as a nation. January 6 […]
read articlePosted in Leadership, The Shift
How to Boost Hospital Revenue by Optimizing Hospitalist Case Mix Index Documentation
by: USACS
As hospital margins shrink, hospital leaders seek strategies to enhance revenue. Accurately capturing Case Mix Index (CMI) is a prime way to do just that. The key? Physician documentation. At each of our partner hospitalist programs, we see consistent improvement in CMI by focusing on physician documentation education and mentoring. In this post, we explain the importance of CMI documentation optimization and how to leverage it to help hospitals increase […]
read articlePosted in General, Hospital Partnership, Leadership