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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

An integrated care champion could be selected to represent the clinic in meetings with community agencies, and community representatives should be included on the Clinic Advisory Boards. Collaboration with a legal aid organization could include establishing an on-site legal clinic when feasible.

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Finding the right fit: Considerations for a confident clinical career choice

Sound Physicians

Who you serve matters Every hospital and facility have a unique patient population and clinical environment. Talk to your recruiter to get a detailed understanding of what your day-to-day responsibilities might look like for the clinical teams you’re considering joining. All rights reserved.

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Shorter stays, better outcomes

Sound Physicians

Finally, caregivers—often family members—play a critical role in educating the care team, flagging barriers to care once out of the hospital, and providing necessary insights into the bigger picture. All rights reserved. Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Patient Privacy | Compliance Search Submit

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ICU telemedicine programs bring essential critical care to community hospitals

Sound Physicians

Increasingly a valuable option for rural hospitals, tele-ICU provides access to higher acuity care and support to emergency and hospital medicine clinicians who are called to the ICU. While we primarily partner with our own Sound specialty teams , we also work independently with employed and other outsourced clinical teams.

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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. Physician compensation is tied to quality of care.

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Dedicated ICU management: Navigating the transition

Sound Physicians

Sound Critical Care is at the forefront of bringing coordinated leadership and clinical excellence to hospital ICUs and the patients within them. For smaller or rural hospitals, this can mean supplementing patient care with tele-ICU clinicians, available 24/7, to keep our providers from stretching too thin. All rights reserved.

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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. Fostering leadership potential While not every clinician aspires to be a leader , it ’ s crucial to provide avenues for those who do. Excellent leaders rise to the occasion when opportunities are open and available to them.