Due to poor patient flow out of the inpatient unit, the hospital’s busy emergency department faced backlogs
Due to poor patient flow out of the inpatient unit, the hospital’s busy emergency department faced backlogs
1 PagesCase Study: Physician Leadership and Service Line Integration Challenge St. Vincent’s Birmingham is a 409-bed acute care hospital serving Birmingham, Alabama and the surrounding communities. Due to poor patient flow out of the inpatient unit, the hospital’s busy emergency department faced backlogs leading to increased wait times, diminished capacity and the repeated need to divert ambulances to other nearby facilities. Hospital administration knew better coordination and collaboration between the hospital medicine and emergency medicine teams was required. Solution In April 2018, hospital leaders decided to integrate its hospital medicine and emergency medicine teams under TeamHealth, its emergency department management partner. TeamHealth immediately hired a facility medicine
