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Hospice agencies provide an invaluable service to patients and families by delivering patient-centered care, psychological and spiritual support, and family support. Thanks to the tireless efforts of those who work in hospice care, patients have better quality of life and patients and their families can make the most of their time together. That said, hospice […]

Under the Emergency Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA), emergency departments that accept Medicare reimbursement are required to examine a presenting patient in order to determine whether an emergency medical condition exists. If so, the ED is required to either treat the condition or stabilize the patient and transfer them to another hospital. In another vein, […]

The residency schedule is the beating heart of an academic medical center. Without it, residents aren’t able to learn and patients aren’t able to get care. The Move to Block Schedules Historically, resident schedules consisted of inpatient rotations with weekly shifts in ambulatory clinics. This model was called into question around 2005, when a consensus […]

Historically, the approach to provider scheduling can best be described as “divide and conquer.” Using this tactic, physicians are often clustered by practice group or by specialty. For example, physicians from a particular radiology group have one call schedule and anesthesiologists from a different group have another. When each independently sends its schedule to the […]

When those responsible for scheduling physicians use manual processes or spreadsheets, they can feel as though they’re endlessly reinventing the wheel. In contrast, scheduling software provides a physician schedule template that streamlines processes and improves accuracy. What is a Physician Schedule Template? A physician schedule template is a tool that outlines a set of shifts […]

Physician assistants have been part of the healthcare landscape since the 1970s. While roughly 25 percent of PAs work in primary care, physician assistants also work in a variety of specialties, including emergency medicine (12 percent), orthopedic surgery (11 percent), and hospital medicine (4 percent). Over half (54 percent) of licensed PAs work in office-based […]