Emergency Department On-Call Strategies: Solutions for Physician-Hospital Alignment, Second Edition

Move from reactive deals to shared costs and sustainable physician-hospital alignment.

Emergency Department On-Call Strategies: Solutions for Physician-Hospital Alignment, Second Edition, provides fully updated strategies, tools, and step-by-step approaches from multiple ED call panel experts. This resource will help you:

• Reduce on-call burden
• Improve physician coverage
• Avoid EMTALA violations
• Reduce the cost of ED call
• Establish fair market value compensation
• Negotiate with staff to secure acceptance of call obligations
• Implement mandatory call programs
• Use hospitalists and other specialties to meet call needs

The table of contents covers:

Section 1 ED Call: Defining the Problem

Section II Thinking Strategically: ED Call and Physician-Hospital Alignment

Section III ED Call Solutions That Work

• Step 1: Engage Physicians Where They Are
• Step 2: Reduce the Burden of Call
• Step 3: Establish a Task Force
• Step 4: Measure the Burden of Call
• Step 5: Establish Principles of Fairness
• Step 6: Establish Mandatory Call Responsibilities
• Step 7: Identify and Evaluate Call Compensation Models
• Step 8: Establish Fair Market Value
• Step 9: Moving from the Model to the Contract
• The Ist Movement
• ED Call: Driver of new medical staff models