Quality Efficiency Utilization
Integrated Acute Care: The Impact of a Patient Centered Admission Team
by: Dr. Robbin Dick
When patient care is a priority, there is a natural integration of more and more elements of the patient’s hospital experience, from their entry process through their stay and finally their discharge. Not only is integrating care delivery service more efficient at delivering care – it’s more effective. An integrated care delivery model starts with […]
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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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Clinical Excellence Means Always Improving
by: Dr. Amer Aldeen
By most nationally collected metrics available, US Acute Care Solutions is at or near the top in terms of emergency medicine quality. We know this by comparing our sites to our peer groups in the largest repository for emergency medicine national clinical quality metrics: the Clinical Emergency Data Registry (CEDR) of the American College of […]
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How To Leave With Class
by: USACS
“Certainly, we had some challenges along the way,” said Dr. Allin Vesa, “But Iredell was our baby, and we nurtured it.” Until recently, Dr. Vesa was the Medical Director for the Emergency Department at Iredell Health System in Statesville, North Carolina. Iredell had an average size community emergency department – about 34,000 visits per year – […]
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Building a World-Class Acute Care Group Means Developing and Attracting World-Class APPs
by: Krisi Gindlesperger
As an emergency medicine PA, I have spent the majority of my career providing compassionate, attentive, quality care. As a medical administrator, I had the opportunity to manage clinicians and build creative educational and professional programs. As a former president of SEMPA, I had the opportunity to see how emergency medicine companies around the country […]
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Sepsis Bundle Management Is a Signpost for Preparedness for The Future of Healthcare
by: Daniel Geary
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’ (CMS) sepsis bundle is a test for a hospital’s preparation for and ability to navigate the future of healthcare. Released in October of 2015, the sepsis bundle is far more complex than previous CMS quality metrics. It requires hospitals to produce longitudinal, detailed reporting on patient care spanning multiple departments. […]
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Learning from Female Physicians Could Lower Mortality and Readmission Rates
by: USACS
The authors of a JAMA study that came out last year showed that Medicare patients treated by female physicians have lower mortality and re-admission rates than their male-treated counterparts. The authors studied Medicare patients treated by 58,344 physicians between 2011 and 2014. Controlling for other factors such as patient type and practice location, the researchers found […]
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Checking Your Cognitive Biases in the ER
February 9th, 2017by: Dr. David Klein
Emergency clinicians are faced with a challenging task. During a busy shift, there can be significant pressure to evaluate and treat patients quickly, without giving each case the care it warrants. Thus, physicians often categorize patients early into a specific diagnostic pathway. At some point, however, with each evaluation, we must pause to assess the […]
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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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The National Clinical Governance Board: Our Answer to a National Problem
August 25th, 2016by: Dr. David Klein
Emergency physicians know well the realities of evidence-based guidelines in emergency departments throughout the country: either there is wide variability in their use and uptake, or there just aren’t any evidence-based guidelines. Patients don’t often think about it when choosing emergency departments – they mostly think about the wait time – but it’s there. Two […]
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