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  • Lessons Learned in the Shadow of COVID-19

    | Leadership

    With hospitals brimming and often overflowing with sick COVID-19 patients, 2020 was a horrible and relentless year for healthcare workers. Caregivers were burdened and endangered […]

  • A Year of Covid-19 – The Tale of an ICU Doctor

    | Culture, Leadership

    Last year at this time, I was nervous. Covid-19 was a new disease, hitherto unknown, and causing frightening and critical illness. It was very contagious, […]

  • Navigating the Infodemic

    | Culture, Leadership

    Information spreads like a virus. The explosion of COVID-19 information coming to us from all angles amplifies the difficulty of deciphering fact from fake. According […]

  • Clinicians, Take a Seat!

    | Culture, Leadership

    As Chief Experience Officer of Sound Physicians, I spend a good deal of time working with clinical teams to improve patients’ experience of care. The Society […]

  • Leveraging Hospitalists to Lead Your Value-Based Care Strategy

    | Performance

    With significant changes to Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCIA) set to start in just weeks, and the recent CMS signal that all hospitals […]

  • A Champion Response to Covid-19

    | Culture, Leadership

    There is a dramatic uptick in COVID-19 cases across the Nation. In my home state of Illinois, multiple counties are renewing COVID-19 restrictions, and indeed […]

  • 5 Ways to Communicate that Your Skilled Nursing Facility is Safe

    | Clinical Innovation, Telemedicine

    Skilled nursing facilities continue to feel the impact of COVID-19, and many are experiencing lower census and fewer hospital referrals. Now is the time to […]

  • Diagnosing sepsis in 2020

    | Performance

    Reflecting on September and Sepsis Awareness Month, I harken back to my early training about the “facesheet,” the part of the medical record that contains […]

  • Reducing Hospital Readmissions is Important in the COVID-19 Era

    | Clinical Innovation

    Care transitions are a particularly vulnerable time in a patient’s care journey. The transfer from one physical location to another, along with a hand-off to […]

  • Systemic Racism, Discrimination, and Prejudice in Healthcare

    | Culture, Leadership

    During the last six months, the words “I can’t breathe” have been calls for help by millions of patients with COVID-19. These same words have […]

  • Heroes Need Help Too

    | Culture, Leadership

    My COVID-19 patient was very sick with oxygen levels dangerously low, but he was holding his own. The next day, however, his condition worsened, and […]

  • The Influence of COVID-19 On Public Health and Health Policy

    | Performance

    While the US manages new surges across parts of the country and hopes for Covid-19’s eventual eradication, its learnings will leave a mark on emergency […]

  • Determining Correct Admission Status for COVID-19 Patients

    | Performance

    Deciding on the correct admission status for COVID-19 patients is the first step toward proper hospital and provider reimbursement. Because of the unpredictable course of […]

  • How the Pandemic is Influencing Emergency Medicine

    | Performance

    In a recent episode of EPM Talk, host Mark L. Plaster, MD, JD, Founder and Director of Emergency Physicians Monthly interviewed Dr. Nathan Ruch, FACEP, […]

  • Documenting COVID-19 Patients – Specificity is Key

    | Performance

    The COVID-19 virus has caused enormous worldwide disruption over the past several months. Just as this tiny virus has caused huge impacts, small changes in […]

  • Planning The Next Site Of Care as the First Priority

    | Clinical Innovation

    When was the last time you heard about a patient whose goal was to stay in the hospital longer than necessary and return to the […]

  • Confirmations, Affirmations and Strengthened Skills – Lessons from COVID-19

    | Culture, Leadership

    COVID-19 is unlike anything I’ve seen. I’ve never had this many critically ill patients at once, nor have I seen patients become so frighteningly sick, […]

  • Sound Physicians combats COVID surge with telemedicine and innovative care design

    | Clinical Innovation, Telemedicine

    Amid the spreading coronavirus pandemic, the state of Maryland was grappling with how to manage a surge in COVID-19 patients, which prompted the state’s governor […]

  • Emergency Clinician Pay in a Value Based Care Environment

    | Culture, Leadership

    Emergency departments are the nation’s critical healthcare safety net. EM clinicians work tirelessly to provide high-quality care to our communities of patients on nights, weekends, […]

  • COVID Safety Tips

    | Thought Leadership

    1. How long should I wash my hands? Washing your hands is one of the simplest ways to keep yourself and others safe, and the […]