Imagine you are part of the emergency department team at a rural hospital. You have a patient who is medically stable but requires a higher level of care. You contact the acute hospital within your health system, which has the necessary specialists, seeking their assistance in admitting the patient. Unfortunately, the receiving facility has no available beds.
Today’s businesses face many challenges concerning employee health. These range from which strategies to implement to manage health care costs to how best to engage employees in their health and keep them healthy. Navigating these challenges is especially difficult considering workforce shortages and escalating health care costs. According to projections from PwC’s Health Research Institute,
Bon Secours Mercy Health faced a significant challenge in maintaining employee health while effectively managing workplace injuries within its extensive operations of 60,000 employees nationwide. The diversity in processes and lack of standardized protocols hindered the employee health team’s ability to ensure consistent care and manage costs. In addition, it resulted in the frequent use of emergency departments for injuries that could have been treated at lower acuity facilities or through self-care,
One of the most challenging patient situations for a health system is providing efficient and effective care to patients with suicidal ideations. Suicidal ideations demand urgent attention, yet shortages in behavioral health (BH) care beds often leave patients waiting in emergency departments (ED) for days. Not only does this impact the throughput and safety of the ED,
Medical Mutual, Conduit and DispatchHealth are at the forefront of transforming health care. Medical Mutual identified a need in its member population and brought together innovative companies in the health care space to help achieve their goals. Working together, these three organizations have positively impacted the Medical Mutual member population.
A pilot program between Conduit Health Partners and Nurse Disrupted aims to solve challenges faced during the hospital admissions process. Read about the collaboration and how it has the potential to positively impact nurse and patient satisfaction.
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The American Association of Colleges of Nursing projects that the nursing shortage will continue through 2031.
After partnering with Conduit Health Partners, a nonprofit integrated health system in California saw significant improvements. Read the full patient transfer center case study.
Mercy Health-Lorain partnered with Conduit Health Partners to implement streamlined patient transfer processes, which improved patient flow and efficiency, and increased admissions.
Health concerns don’t stick to a 9-to-5 schedule. Medical Mutual sought a better solution to provide its members quick access to reliable clinical advice, any time of the day.
Conduit Health Partners partnered with a senior living community to virtually monitor residents’ temperatures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn how we helped this facility more closely monitor their patients in this short case study.
