Bringing better to our partners, patients and the bedside
Our hospital medicine practice is rooted in strong clinical leadership and excellence and empowered teams. We’re physicians, advanced practice providers, and nurses committed to understanding the unique needs of our patients. Our promise is to bring better to the bedside. Better ideas, better approaches, better care. Whether we’re rounding with hospital teams, evaluating patients, or sending them to the most appropriate next site of care, our patients are at the center of everything we do and inspire us to be better every day.
Hospitalists’ Evolving Importance in Achieving Medicare Sustainability
In this webinar, Dr. Mihir Patel, CEO for Hospital Medicine, shares how hospital’s can achieve Medicare Sustainability through people, process and technology. He discussed processes to improve length of stay observed to expected ratio, aspects to improve observation length of stay and observation to admission ration, as well as, innovative solutions Sound has implemented to improve hospital clinical and financial performance.
CASE STUDY
Centralized MDRs Improve Length of Stay
The Sound Hospital Medicine team centralized multidisciplinary rounds (MDRs) to improve hospital clinical engagement, stabilized case mix index and readmissions.
Leveraging Sound's unique clinical performance nurse (CPN) role to serve as liaison to all individuals supporting care for the patient, improved collaboration and identified avoidable delays important for patient discharge.
The team partnered with the hospital to:
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.05 day reduction in LOS, within nine months
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.11 day reduction in LOS O/E*
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Stabilization of case mix index and readmissions
*O/E = observed to expected
Our Results
11%
improvement in LOS
13%
improvement in case mix index
21%
improvement in readmissions
About Sound Physicians
Physician-founded and led, our national multi-specialty medical group is made up of more than 4,000 physicians, advanced practice providers, CRNAs, and nurses who practice in 400-plus hospitals across 45 states.
With specialties in emergency and hospital medicine, critical care, anesthesia, and telemedicine, our partners have benefited from Sound’s 22 years of experience innovating and leading through an ever-changing healthcare landscape — with patients at the center of our universe.
