Schumacher Group is proud to announce a partnership with WellnessWorks — a privately held health care business development firm that works with patients’ employers to identify community resources that deliver primary care, specialty care and workers compensation services. “We come from Emergency Medicine but our mission includes improving quality for patients, and that doesn’t just mean in the [...]
Since the ratification of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, physician practices and hospitals have been scrambling to create accountable care organizations, or ACOs, which will be allowed to contract with Medicare in January 2012. But what is an ACO, and is it right for your Emergency Department? An ACO is model for payment [...]
Adena Regional Medical Center Chillicothe, Ohio Serve in a hospital that recently underwent a $45-million hospital expansion State-of-the-art patient simulation labs and education center 26-bed Emergency Department with 6-bed Fast Track Hike in the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, and tour the Adena mansion and gardens Children’s Medical Center Legacy Plano, Texas Serve in one [...]
At Schumacher Group, our commitment is to go above and beyond by serving as more than just your recruiting firm. While we do match high performing hospitals with the highest quality physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants that fit them, we go one step further to provide the services to manage your staff. We want [...]
About the Author: Dr. Tim Quattrone, MD, is the Regional Medical Office of Schumacher Group’s South Central Region. He values quality emergency care of patients and will explore initiatives that can contribute to the quality and effectiveness of your emergency department. Doctor to doctor What is quality medicine in the Emergency Department (ED)? I have [...]
Emergency departments are no stranger to technology and innovation. Technological advances have often helped doctors and nurses become more efficient and effective in dealing with medical crises. However, a new wave of smartphones, the iPad, the “cloud”, and emergency room technology promise to revolutionize the ways doctors access information and communicate with patients. Perhaps the [...]
Las Vegas, NV – May 23, 2011 – True to one of Schumacher Group’s guiding principles (to positively impact the nation’s health care), Schumacher Group CEO and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Randy Pilgrim, FACEP, FAAFP, was recently recognized for doing just that. Dr. Pilgrim was awarded the Emergency Department Practice Management Association (EDPMA) Founders Award [...]
While the US economy continues to struggle, the health care sector is persevering as one of the few areas of job growth. According to recently released data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: “For the second consecutive month, job growth in the healthcare sector showed impressive gains, Bureau of Labor Statistics preliminary data show. Hospitals [...]
Thomson Reuters recently released it’s annual list of the nation’s top 100 hospitals and we are proud to announce that Schumacher’s Minden Medical Center made the list. The study evaluates performance in patient satisfaction, medical complications, patient safety, average length of patient stay, profitability, adherence to clinical standards of care, mortality, and readmission rates for [...]
