Hospitals are increasingly adopting 24-hour intensivist physician staffing as a strategy to improve intensive care unit (ICU) outcomes. However, the degree to which nighttime intensivists are ...

BRENTWOOD, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cogent HMG, a national leader in the field of hospital medicine and critical care medicine, has acquired The Intensivist Group, the preeminent provider of ...

A healthcare consultancy anticipates a shortage of 7,900 critical care physicians nationwide when the coronavirus pandemic peaks. The country is facing a "massive shortage" of critical care physicians ...

Quality programs, such as the Leapfrog Group initiative, have encouraged hospitals to staff intensive care units (ICUs) with capable intensivists 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To date, the data on ...

BRENTWOOD, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cogent Healthcare, longtime hospital medicine partner to hospitals across the nation, today announced an expansion of its services to include intensivist programs ...

The Intensivist Group, a provider of critical care services to community hospitals, has launched a new advanced critical care program at Provena Mercy Medical Center in Aurora, Ill., according to a ...

In facilities where 24/7 intensivist care was not available, outcomes were better when care was delivered by "tele-intensivists" versus traditional care models, researchers reported. Among patients ...

Increasing numbers of intensive care units (ICUs) are adopting the practice of nighttime intensivist staffing despite the lack of experimental evidence of its effectiveness. We conducted a 1-year ...

American critical care training programs have failed to produce enough intensivists to meet demand, and this mismatch between supply and demand will substantially worsen over upcoming decades.

Nearly three years ago, Valley Health—a regional health system based in rural Virginia—was struggling to recruit critical-care physicians for its flagship hospital and referral center. That’s ...

The ambulatory intensivist model makes achieving the Triple Aim a reality through improved physician interpersonal, analytic, intuitive, and advanced clinical skills, including the use of telemedicine ...