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Dedicated ICU management: Navigating the transition

Sound Physicians

For hospitals, this means investing in cutting-edge medical interventions and partnerships that help them transition to the modern best-practice of dedicated ICU management. Sound Critical Care is at the forefront of bringing coordinated leadership and clinical excellence to hospital ICUs and the patients within them.

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Beware the bait-and-switch when it comes to HM program contracts

Sound Physicians

Still, we know that sometimes the final decision comes down to a single factor: cost. While we’ve earned our reputation over the decades for our clinical excellence in hospital medicine , we’ve also earned — somewhat unfairly — a reputation for being more expensive than our competitors. Why the gap?

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ICU telemedicine programs bring essential critical care to community hospitals

Sound Physicians

While we primarily partner with our own Sound specialty teams , we also work independently with employed and other outsourced clinical teams. With time, the partnership between tele-intensivists and hospitalists brings more confidence and allows for more patients — and patients with higher-acuity needs — to receive care locally.

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Growing together: How Sound creates a culture of leadership

Sound Physicians

It is, by design, built into the ways we educate, train, and support our clinical leadership. Dedicated to supporting medical directors in their leadership and team management, they support talent reviews, facilitate engagement surveys, offer certified coaching, and create personal development tools.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

PEMBlog

Characteristics, Clinical Care, and Disposition Barriers for Mental Health Patients Boarding in the Emergency Department. PMID: 32393605. Parent/Professional Advocacy League: Best Practices: Pediatric Emergency Department Psychiatric Boarding Kraft CM, Morea P, Teresi B, et al. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. Doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2020.11.021

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 4: Safe prehospital transport of the agitated child

PEMBlog

NASEMSO: Clinical care and restraint of agitated or combative patients by emergency medical service practitioners. link] Patient restraint in emergency medical services [Position Statement].

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Lead, follow or get out of the way

Physician's Practice

This can also happen in a reverse scenario where the practice must turn to outsourcing as their backup plan because their staff is unqualified to manage an in-house billing program.) As Michael LeBoeuf, PhD, says in his book The Greatest Management Principle in the World (Putnam, 1985), "You get what you reward."