Stay Tuned …
Next month, I’ll examine other strategies to provide surge capacity. I think they’re more valuable than the two I’ve mentioned here, but I need to warn you that they aren’t perfect and are more complicated to operationalize. TH
Dr. Nelson has been a practicing hospitalist since 1988 and is co-founder and past president of SHM. He is a principal in Nelson Flores Hospital Medicine Consultants, a national hospitalist practice management consulting firm (www.nelson flores.com). He is course co-director and faculty for SHM’s “Best Practices in Managing a Hospital Medicine Program” course. This column represents his views and is not intended to reflect an official position of SHM.