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The hospitalist model of care, introduced more than 20 years ago, has helped to reshape patient care within the hospital setting while enabling hospitals to better achieve key quality outcomes. Today, the Surgical Affiliates Surgical Hospitalist Program is helping to transform the delivery of trauma and emergency general surgery care, allowing for a seamless integration within the hospital setting that also serves to complement and support a hospital’s existing hospitalist program. The end result of this integration – a productive, synergistic partnership between surgicalists and hospitalists that yields significant benefits for patients, providers, and hospitals.

Our Surgicalists Work Closely with Hospitalists in Support of Common Goals
Hospitalists – dedicated in-house physicians providing care to acutely ill hospitalized patients – are typically board-certified internal medicine physicians or general practitioners who are members of the core group of physicians delivering dedicated on-site services within the hospital setting. One important duty for hospitalists is coordinating patient care, which involves delineating a comprehensive plan of care, organizing the communication among specialists caring for a patient, and serving as the point of contact with other healthcare providers and family members for questions and updates.

In providing our hospital partners with a dedicated, in-house team of experienced board-certified trauma and acute care surgeons delivering round-the-clock care to patients, we work closely with hospitalists to provide the highest level of care to patients while seamlessly integrating with all existing hospital departments. Our surgicalists, dedicated members of our hospital partners’ in-house physician teams, closely collaborate with hospitalists in support of institutional goals such as improving patient outcomes, increasing operational efficiency, and enhancing continuity of care.

  • Round-the-clock availability of surgicalists supports hospitalists in improving patient outcomes. In hospitals without surgicalist programs, hospitalists sometimes must wait for responses from on-call surgeons for patients in need of emergency surgery – resulting in possible delays in care and an increased risk of complications. Surgical Affiliates establishes experienced, highly qualified teams to provide 24/7, in-house emergency surgical support, allowing operations to be performed more quickly and leading to improved outcomes for patients and hospitals. Also, eliminating the need for hospitalists to locate an on-call surgeon for a patient in need allows them to focus more of their valuable time on patient care, further contributing to improved outcomes for patients. Additionally, we provide our hospital partners with a standardized admission grid in the Emergency Department, which allows for a streamlined admission process that facilitates improved patient flow.
  • A dedicated medical director helps to increase operational efficiency and ensure seamless integration with other hospital departments, including hospitalist programs. Our experienced surgical teams are supported and led by a dedicated, local medical director focused on maintaining high-quality standards and efficient clinic operations. Also, this dedicated professional is available to serve on any hospital committee as a means of ensuring optimal integration with other hospital departments.
  • Our surgicalists support hospitalists in coordinating and enhancing continuity of care.A the well-managed surgicalist program creates an improved working relationship between hospitalists and surgeons that enhances continuity of care. For example, the advantage of a dedicated in-house surgical team is that together, surgeons and hospitalists can create treatment algorithms that allow for better coordination of care – perhaps not feeding a patient who may need timely surgery or not administering blood thinners when an operation is imminent. Also, hospitalists appreciate the immediate availability of an engaged and professional surgeon who serves as a willing consultant for complicated patients and potential transfers into the facility. What’s more, our surgicalist programs provide standardized care based on evidence-based best practices, ensuring that our experienced teams of acute care surgeons reduce variations in care and create an environment in which hospitalists can come to rely on a standard approach to various clinical scenarios, reducing unnecessary tests or delays in care.

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 14, 2018/PRNewswire/ — Surgical Affiliates, a leading provider of emergency in-house trauma, orthopedic, neurosurgery, and general surgical services for hospital systems, announces its partnership with McLaren Oakland Hospital in Pontiac, MI, today. This partnership will enhance patient care in providing 24/7 acute care and trauma surgical services at McLaren Oakland, a Level II-verified trauma center that provides care to patients in the greater Pontiac and Oakland County community.

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The new partnership will facilitate McLaren Oakland’s longstanding mission of providing the highest level of emergency surgical care by ensuring patients have 24/7 access to an in-house team of fellowship-trained acute care and trauma surgeons supported by Surgical Affiliates’ depth of expertise in emergency surgical care.

“We are thrilled to have a new partnership with Surgical Affiliates, as their fellowship-trained trauma surgeons will be in-house providing real-time patient assessments instead of a patient waiting for an on-call surgeon to drive in and assess the patient,” stated Margaret Dimond, Ph.D., President and CEO of McLaren Oakland. “The new in-house trauma surgeons  will deliver the most appropriate care for the needs of our complex community.”

Surgical Affiliates will provide an enhanced array of surgical services including an in-house team of board-certified acute care and trauma surgeons highly trained in implementing evidence-based guidelines to provide 24/7 care to patients.  This experienced surgical team will deliver a systematic, personalized approach to care that is a core benefit of the Surgical Affiliates acute care surgical model.  Also, a dedicated medical director will provide support and leadership to the surgical team while ensuring high-quality standards and efficient clinic operations, and a fully-staffed follow-up clinic will be provided to offer post-discharge care to patients.

“Dr. Dimond is an incredibly decisive CEO – she immediately recognized how a partnership with SAMGI could raise the bar of trauma care for the region.  Working with her leadership team, we have enjoyed outstanding local surgeon and APP recruitment to the trauma and acute care surgery service,” said Surgical Affiliates President and CEO Lynette Scherer, MD, FACS.

About McLaren Oakland
McLaren Oakland is a 328-bed medical center that provides primary and specialty healthcare services to the greater Pontiac and Oakland County community. Founded in 1953, McLaren Oakland has grown to a comprehensive medical community that includes two outpatient facilities as well as an inpatient hospital in Pontiac providing a range of clinical services including emergency and trauma care, cardiology, cancer services, minimally invasive robotic surgery and orthopedic services.   As a Level II verified trauma center and accredited stroke center, McLaren Oakland also offers numerous AOA- approved residency and fellowship programs.

About Surgical Affiliates
Surgical Affiliates is a national leader in surgical hospitalist care with published, peer-reviewed results demonstrating benefits to hospitals, clinicians, and patients by providing quality 24/7 emergency surgical care.  The team is composed of an experienced group of board-certified surgeons, healthcare providers, and medical directors providing strategic surgical programs in Acute Care, Trauma, Neurosurgery, and Orthopedics.