The busy facility had difficulty recruiting additional hospitalists needed to cover all shifts. This led to frequent reliance on locum tenens.
The busy facility had difficulty recruiting additional hospitalists needed to cover all shifts. This led to frequent reliance on locum tenens.
1 PagesCase Study: Leadership and Clinician Retention Challenge As the flagship facility of Baptist Memorial Health Care, Baptist Memorial Hospital (BMH) – Memphis had a small team of hospital medicine clinicians covering the hospital’s 500 beds. The busy facility had difficulty recruiting additional hospitalists needed to cover all shifts. This led to frequent reliance on locum tenens coverage resulting in excess cost, inconsistent performance, poor engagement and lack of alignment with hospital priorities. Solution BMH called on its partner, TeamHealth, for help. TeamHealth quickly assembled a dynamic leadership team consisting of a TeamHealth facility medical director (FMD) and associate medical director, vice president of operations and regional medical director (RMD). This leaders
