Challenge: Improve Birth Outcomes and Increase Teaching Capacity of OB/GYN Residency Program SHHP has a longstanding university-affiliated OB/GYN residency program. In 2014, the program needed to add faculty to ensure that residents continued to have exposure to quality, hands-on patient care. “We saw a direct need to ensure that we had physicians in the right place at the right time,” said Dr . Julie DeCesare, OB/GYN Residency Program Director at Sacred Heart. Dr. DeCesare had been providing stipends to private practice physicians to take OB call on nights and weekends. “Staffing a unit 24/7 is hard.” It wasn’t working well, plus the non-faculty doctors were not eligible to satisfy the program’s academic supervision requirements. Background: Sacred Heart Hospital of P

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