|
In our consulting work we frequently meet hospitals and medical groups who have started their own hospitalist program. They typically start by hiring a couple of internists to focus on inpatient work, and build some basic management and support systems for the program.
We also frequently find that these same hospitals and medical groups become frustrated with the challenges of building and maintaining an excellent program. Typical issues we often see:
- Practices that are a financial drain on the sponsor
- Lack of focus and skills in hospitalist-specific billing and collections
- Inability to quickly and reliably communicate patient status to referring physicians
- Medical staff and Emergency Department complaints about hospitalist availability and responsiveness
- Inadequate participation in the program by referring physicians
- Difficulties in measuring productivity, utilization, and quality of hospitalists
- Lack of a systematic training and mentoring program for the hospitalists
- Challenges in finding vacation and night call coverage, and in recruiting new hospitalists to the practice.
If you are facing some or all of these challenges, or are starting a brand new program, it might be time for you to consider outsourcing your hospitalist program to a dedicated expert in the specialty – IPC. We offer a range of customized solutions that relieve you of the day-to-day challenges, while still giving you the monitoring capability and control you want.
We can staff the program with IPC-employed physicians, or work with your existing physicians. IPC-LINK®, our proprietary technology, enhances communication among all key players in they system, while providing timely and thorough information. With our program solutions, IPC reduces average lengths of stay and costs, while maintaining or improving quality metrics for your facility.
|
