Committee presses Division of Industrial Relations on limited lists of treating physicians for first responders Legislators asked the Division of Industrial Relations about a shortage of cardiologists, pulmonologists and ENTs on the master treating-physician panel; DIR said it audits the list monthly and will recruit physicians while reviewing the medical fee schedule to encourage participation.

Nevada lawmakers are demanding action as injured first responders face a critical shortage of specialists, forcing them to travel long distances for care.

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🩺 At-home wound care is a great first step, but it doesn’t always solve the problem.
If a wound isn’t improving after a few weeks, there may be deeper issues like poor circulation, infection, pressure, or underlying conditions slowing healing.

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Dr. Joelle Holland shares the raw, very real financial journey of becoming a specialty-care optometrist. 💬

Staring down $660,000 in student loan debt—

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A Novel Approach to Care Redesign Collaboration Between Emergency and Specialty Departments: Qualitative Experience Report Background: Given rising demand for Emergency Department (ED) services and coupled with a scarcity of specialty care availability, there is urgency to design a system for appropriate, effective, and timely ED-to-specialty outpatient referrals. Efficient care transitions are important to patient outcomes and experience and require cross-specialty cooperation as care transitions affect practices and resources of individuals, departments, and institutions. Objective: Here our objective was to (1) describe a collaboration between Stanford’s Emergency Medicine and Neurology & Neurological Sciences departments aimed to design and implement an optimized discharge process and transition of care from ED to ambulatory neurology for follow-up care and (2) the resulting intervention from the collaboration. Methods: We describe the process for barrier identification, tools used to foster partnership and intervention ideation, and the resulting intervention. Our experience and findings are integrated into a 4-component framework for future interdepartmental collaborations: (1) cross-specialty team meetings; (2) pre-implementation interviews; (3) a design thinking focus group session; and (4) small group meetings. Qualitative data included observational notes and document review from bi-weekly cross-specialty and small group meetings, pre-implementation interviews, design-thinking focus groups. Results: Our process included 10 cross-specialty team meetings with 8 physician and operational representatives, 18 individual pre-implementations interviews, 10 focus group participants, and 9 small group meetings. The process components fostered collaboration and teamwork amongst the multi-disciplinary team; supported early identification of barriers and facilitators, including divergent understanding of project goals; and developed creative ideas that contributed to intervention development. The collaboration resulted in a 4-pronged multi-modal intervention. Two elements focused on modifying clinical practice to better triage clinically appropriate ED referrals to ambulatory neurology: (1) optimizing management of conditions in the ED to reduce preventable referrals, and (2) increasing deferral to Primary Care clinicians to direct appropriate specialty follow-up care. Two additional structural elements sought to directly improve appropriate referral timeliness by: (3) streamlining insurance authorization processes and (4) increasing neurology appointment availability. Conclusions: This cross-specialty collaboration resulted in a multi-modal intervention that called for both structural and practice changes which were novel and supported by the results of comparable interventions. Future applications of this framework can validate its utility among different collaborative groups in new settings.

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Further Expanding access to meet the growing demand for expert #pediatrics #specialtycare services in #Erie, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has opened a second specialty care center location, UPMC Children’s Specialty Care Center Erie – Peach Street in the community.

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