AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD
sponsored by Hospitalist Management Advisor
presented on July 20, 2006
Hospitalist groups are making it a priority to set up preoperative clinics and establish contracts with surgery groups to co-manage hospitalized patients. Initial studies show that patients under the care of hospitalists had shorter lengths of stay and fewer post-op complications than those patients under traditional care. In general, hospitalists are uniquely qualified to focus on quality, safety, and efficiency of care—and hospitals are recognizing that these factors likely translate to caring for surgical patients.
Listen to this intermediate-level audioconference where your staff will learn the pros and cons of such programs, how they can demonstrate viability to administrators, and actually get started setting one up.
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At the end of this audioconference, participants will be able to:
- explain how a surgical co-management model can help address healthcare needs.
- identify key considerations in developing a hospitalist surgical co-management program.
- assess the viability of securing financing for a surgical co-management program.
- explain the multiple challenges of developing a hospitalist surgical co-management program.
- identify the infrastructure needed for effective communication and team building between hospitalists and surgeons.
AGENDA
The need for surgical comanagement models using hospitalists
- ACGME resident duty hours limitations: advantages and disadvantages
- Rise in the number of all types of surgeries
- Increased focus on quality-of-care issues by hospitals, regulators, the public
- Surgical patients becoming much more medically complex
- Sheer growth in size and scope of hospital medicine programs
Key considerations in developing a hospitalist surgical comanagement program
- Organizational level
- Hospitalist program level
Demonstrate viability of/get financial backing for a surgical comanagement program
- Financing
- Marketing (include points such as patient satisfaction, attracting surgeons to the hospital, building the hospitalist program)
- Using a report card; hospital already collecting/measuring some of the data needed
- Applying the core competencies
- Billing
Challenges of developing a hospitalist surgical comanagement program
- Overextending hospitalists
- Surgeons aren’t invested
- Inadequate physical space for a program that grows more quickly than planned
- Inadequate number of staff hospitalists with the necessary skills
- Failing to create a standardized protocol for evaluating surgical patients
- Making hospitalists the “house staff for surgery”
- Lack of a comprehensive outpatient structure
Communication and teamwork
- Examining the communication infrastructures already in place (e.g., hospitalists/PCPs); how to build on this for surgical comanagement
- Huge opportunity for team-building between hospitalists and surgeons
Q&A session
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
- hospitalists
- hospitalist program directors
- surgeons
- academic community
- administrators
- surgical residency directors
- medical residency directors
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, FACP, is founder and executive director of the hospitalist program at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center. He also serves as vice chair for Clinical Affairs and Quality in the department of medicine. His educational responsibilities include associate program director for the internal medicine residency program. Dr. Amin is a national leader in hospital medicine.
Sylvia C. W. McKean, MD, is assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and medical director of the Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospitalist Service in Boston. Dr.McKean has received more than a dozen awards for leadership, excellence, and teaching, and recently received the Society of Hospital Medicine’s 2006 Excellence in Teaching Award in recognition of outstanding teaching in hospital medicine. In addition to implementing hospitalist programs at two hospitals, Dr.McKean is currently working to develop innovative teaching programs addressing topics not traditionally covered in residency training.
PROGRAM MATERIALS
Program materials will be provided with PDF links.
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