A center of excellence needs more than clinical expertise to earn regional trust. See how a strategically aligned Transfer Center supports access, physician connections, and consistent patient flow across neuroscience, cardiovascular, and orthopedic service lines.
Fragmented nurse triage data across employed medical groups hides patterns in demand, access gaps and ED referrals. See what standardization reveals and why it matters.
Most health systems track where patients come from, but few can see where they’re going. Here’s why system-wide transfer data matters more than facility-level reporting, and what it reveals about leakage, referral trends and service line performance.
Conduit COO Dominique Wells breaks down why earlier nurse-led triage, not more capacity, is the lever health systems need to manage rising patient demand. Read her Medical Economics byline.
Conduit Health Partners president Cheryl Dalton-Norman explains why completion doesn’t guarantee continuity in her latest Forbes Business Council article.
Many health systems and medical groups recognize the value of nurse-first triage. It can help patients receive timely clinical guidance, reduce unnecessary escalation, support overburdened physicians, and give leaders better visibility into after-hours demand.
The harder question is often not whether nurse-first triage is valuable. It is how to measure that value in a way that resonates across finance,
Health system leaders know the pressure firsthand: patients seeking guidance after hours with nowhere to turn, emergency departments absorbing demand that doesn’t belong there, and clinical staff stretched thin. Nurse-first triage addresses all three.With licensed nurses guiding patients earlier, nurse-first triage can help health systems improve clinical access, reduce unnecessary emergency department utilization and create a more reliable experience for patients and staff.
Call throughput metrics don’t capture what experienced triage nurses actually do. Devin English on the clinical instincts behind every after-hours call — and what health systems lose when they’re missing.
Coverage isn’t the same as reliable after-hours access. Learn how nurse-first triage closes the gap on ED overuse, provider burnout, and care variability.
Many after-hours issues escalate to providers by default. Nurse-led clinical triage helps reduce unnecessary escalation and provider on-call burden
