Our hospital-based status provides stronger physician alignment, better communication, and collaboration of care, resulting in lower costs, better service, improved outcomes, and increased satisfaction.
It has become much more difficult for hospitals to negotiate an equitable and shared vision for call with the orthopedic medical staff. The burden of call is much higher for orthopedics due to the volume of patients in the emergency department and the increased follow-up demands. We can convert the burden and cost of emergency department call into a valuable strategic asset. Our system complements local practices and contributes to the hospital’s strategic goals.
Our practice structure is similar in all our services. The staffing, deliverables, and scope of care can be customized to address your hospital’s needs.
Surgical Colleagues provides a stable team of dedicated, board-certified general surgeons with the skills and experience commensurate with the hospital’s designation, volume, and market demographics. The practice is led by an onsite medical director and supported by Surgical Colleagues' proven infrastructure and operations team. This minimizes stress and simplifies the practice environment.
We provide 24/7 coverage to ensure a quick response to surgical patients in the emergency department. Our dedicated surgeons collaborate with hospitals to deliver optimal care and alignment with established goals and performance metrics. This scope of care includes post-op care, hospital-wide consults, rounding, discharges, and global follow-up care in an outpatientclinic.
Surgical Colleagues has developed a new model for neurosurgical practice management to address market challenges and benefit constituents.
Many of our hospital partners need assistance in meeting their expanded neurosurgery needs or with physician turnover. We are a more engaged physician partner that can provide superior neurosurgery call coverage and valuable specialty practice solutions to impact service, marketshare, and financial performance. All revenues from our practices stay in the hospital to offset our costs. The impact we can have on the "Enterprise" value of your neurosurgery service line far outweighs our costs.
In collaboration with an experienced and innovative neurosurgeon group, we have designed a unique model to produce recruiting, retention, alignment, and practice advantages. Practice design is tailored to hospital designation, volume, patient acuity, and desired deliverables. The traditional call models are giving way to a more focused approach by dedicated surgeons toimprove outcomes, patient experience, and optimize ED contributions.
Our scope of service entails experienced neurosurgeons, strong onsite leadership, follow-up clinic, support staff, proven infrastructure, and best practices. We assume responsibility for emergent and unassigned patients presenting to the ED, admitted patients, consults, rounding, and discharges. We refer all elective patients to the local neurosurgeons.
Many community hospitals may have a solo neurosurgeon on their medical staff and need additional help to ensure continuity in coverage and care. We can provide supplemental coverage to augment an existing practice to improve patient access.
We have designed several options to address different challenges and can customize our models to meet your unique needs. Integrating elective practices into our call models leverages existing infrastructure and overhead to improve our VALUE. This unique approach provides numerous advantages:
Call us for an integrated hospital-based acute care and elective practice consultation.
The competition for Gastroenterologists has increased substantially, especially those with ERCP and Endo-Ultrasound Certification. Gastroenterologists are looking for equity in ASCs/Endoscopy Centers or joining larger group practices to benefit from partnership tracks. The traditional Gastroenterology practice models are also being replaced by group or private equity models that have the resources and capital to invest in technology and infrastructure to optimize outcomes, costs, and reimbursement.
The emergence of in house gastroenterology models has gained popularity in many hospitals. Surgical Colleagues can leverage their infrastructure and physician practice operations expertise and apply it to Gastroenterology.