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Disaster Preparedness: Strategies for Managing the Unexpected
September 5, 2019
Hospitals must always be prepared to respond at a moment’s notice to powerful storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, mass casualty events and other potential disasters. If a disaster is preceded with sufficient warning such as weather reports, hospitals typically activate an incident command center that manages resources and response activities before, during and after the event. Similarly, some clinical outsourcing partners...
A Clinician’s Perspective: Living and Working in the Northeast
March 14, 2019
We recently spoke with Dr. Frank Lee, TeamHealth residency education outreach consultant, and former regional medical director (RMD) in the Northeast, about working with TeamHealth and the community he lives in and serves. TeamHealth: Tell us about the facilities you formerly oversaw? Dr. Lee: As the RMD, I was part of TeamHealth Northeast, which covered...
A Clinician’s Perspective: Work and Life in Worcester, Massachusetts
January 3, 2019
We recently spoke with Dr. Swetlana Lobachova, TeamHealth anesthesiology facility medical director, about her facility and the community she serves in Worcester. TeamHealth: Tell us about the facilities you currently oversee? Dr. Lobachova: I am currently Facility Medical Director in Anesthesiology at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a private community hospital with...
A Physician’s Perspective: Work and Life in Omaha
December 3, 2018
We recently spoke with Dr. Chris Acker, TeamHealth emergency medicine regional medical director for CHI facilities in Nebraska and Iowa, about his partner facility and the community he serves in Omaha. Tell us about the facility you currently oversee. Dr. Acker: CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center- Bergan Mercy is a tertiary care center located...
A Physician’s Perspective: Work and Life in Rhode Island
August 23, 2018
We recently spoke with Dr. Daren Girard, TeamHealth emergency medicine facility medical director, about his partner facilities and the community he serves in Rhode Island. TeamHealth: Tell us about the facilities you currently oversee. Dr. Girard: CharterCARE Health Partners manages two hospitals in Rhode Island. Our Lady of Fatima Hospital is a full-service community hospital...
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Critical Event Response: Las Vegas
August 21, 2018
By Miles Snowden, MD, Chief Medical Officer In choosing hospital and facility-based medicine, we have chosen to be responsible for the highest acuity of healthcare needs. More often than not, for patients and families, high-acuity care is delivered by unfamiliar clinicians at unexpected times and in foreign facilities. Practicing this type of medicine well—one patient...
A Physician’s Perspective: Working at the University of Tennessee Medical Center
August 2, 2018
Dr. Randal Dabbs (left) and Dr. Lynn Massingale (right) at TeamHealth event. Recently, we spoke with Dr. Lynn Massingale, TeamHealth co-founder and Chairman of the Board, along with Dr. Randal Dabbs, TeamHealth co-founder and President of Practice Development, about their experience as emergency medicine physicians at the University of Tennessee Medical Center (UTMC). We wanted to...
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TeamHealth & Natural Disasters: Hurricane Irma Critical Response
July 10, 2018
By Miles Snowden, MD, Chief Medical Officer In choosing hospital and facility-based medicine, we have chosen to be responsible for the highest acuity of healthcare needs. More often than not, for patients and families, high-acuity care is delivered by unfamiliar clinicians at unexpected times and in foreign facilities. Practicing this type of medicine well—one patient...
Critical Events Response: Hurricane Harvey
June 19, 2018
By Miles Snowden, MD, Chief Medical Officer In choosing hospital and facility-based medicine, we have chosen to be responsible for the highest acuity of healthcare needs. More often than not, for patients and families, high-acuity care is delivered by unfamiliar clinicians at unexpected times and in foreign facilities. Practicing this type of medicine well—one patient...
Healing and Hope: A Physician’s Message of Medicine
August 28, 2017
By Dr. Omar Hamada, MD, pictured with his grandfather Ibrahim Souki, MD, who inspired him to become a physician. Medicine is a message. It is a message of healing. It is a message of hope. If you are chosen, you will be among the most fortunate few who are trusted with the very lives of...
How Medical Teams Helped Save Communities after Hurricane Matthew
August 17, 2017
Last year, parts of the southeast Atlantic coast braced for impact as Hurricane Matthew approached the U.S. The category five hurricane brought winds of 140 miles per hour and a storm surge that caused waters to rise to dangerously high levels in coastal cities in its path. In the wake of the storm, thousands of...