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Abstract Number: 56
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Transforming hospital operations to optimize patient experience begins with a collaborative care team. The geographic re-location of physicians into one unit with an entire care team, in addition to the implementation of Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds (SIBR), have been linked to multiple outcomes related to effective care team communication and collaboration, including patient safety […]
Abstract Number: 77
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: The buzzword of the decade for hospital medicine is geography. Geographic ACUs have been in existence for years at our institution on non-teaching floors. The ACUs have improved overall throughput, quality and patient experience. Our hospitalists have embraced the ACU philosophy due to ease of rounding, interdisciplinary approach to patient care and its 7on/7off […]
Abstract Number: 99
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: In Canada, as in the US, hospital medicine has become an increasingly important staffing model innovation. Canadian hospitalists are typically Family Physicians and General Internists. In an attempt to advance its hospitalist staffing model into a care model innovation as well, the Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region (RQHR) implemented Canada’s first Accountable Care Unit (ACU) […]
Abstract Number: 284
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Traditionally, models of healthcare delivery to hospitalized patients have been indirect and inefficient. The typical hospital system has providers spread between multiple units and nurses interacting with multiple provider teams. Several studies focusing on interdisciplinary rounding (IDR) have shown a variety of positive impacts on hospital-associated metrics such as length of stay (LOS), hospital […]
Abstract Number: 318
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Geographic Accountable Care Units (ACUs) have been in existence for years at our institution. The ACUs have demonstrated improved throughput, quality and patient experience metrics. Our hospitalists have embraced the ACU philosophy due to ease of rounding, interdisciplinary approach to patient care and its 7on/7off scheduling, which is not standard at our institution. Overall […]
Abstract Number: 447
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: As hospital reimbursement models and publicly available CMS ratings place a stronger emphasis on improved patient throughput, safety, and satisfaction, it has become increasingly important for hospitals to develop cohesive care teams aligned with these goals. At our 800-bed quaternary care hospital located in suburban New York, care had historically been quite heterogeneous, with […]