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Sound Physicians partners with thought leaders across the industry to provide you with content and information to help your program succeed and improve. With over 20 years of experience improving outcomes for our partners across the country, we aim to share the lessons we have learned along the way.
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Building a winning sepsis program: Top tips for hospital leaders

Sepsis remains a leading cause of death in hospitals and costs the nation's healthcare system tens of billions of dollars every year. To improve management of the complex condition, hospitals are prioritizing early detection and minimizing gaps in care. At the heart of all these efforts is having the right teams and processes in place. Dr. Tony Briningstool shares what it takes to build a winning sepsis program, including a framework for what leadership structures should look like, best practices for engaging clinicians and establishing the right workflows.
SNFs: It’s Time to Deliver More Complex Care. Are you Ready?

SNFs: It’s Time to Deliver More Complex Care. Are you Ready?

The paradigm of post-acute care is shifting, with hospitals, payers, and patients looking for alternatives to skilled nursing stays. To thrive in this changing landscape, SNFs must successfully care for sicker residents with more complex needs. Your success now requires an innovative, multidisciplinary approach and a higher level of physician engagement.
Setting Priorities for Quality Improvement (Part 2/4)

How ICU Performance Leads to Hospital Growth

Intensive care units care for the sickest of patients and are essential to the communities they serve. That said, many hospitals don’t recognize that the ICU can be a catalyst for growth. Learn how to implement change in your ICU, drive quality, and improve your hospital’s reputation from Dr. Sergio Zanotti, Sound’s CMO of critical care.
Making Denial an Opportunity

Making Denial an Opportunity

Describing the differences in documentation for Inpatient per commercial guidelines are sometimes quite different from what we learned about in medical school or during training in residency. Documenting the presence of certain relevant findings can help promote approvals for Inpatient can minimize denials. It is important to not over and/or under document.
Improving Sepsis Care: “It’s Déjà Vu, All over Again”

Improving Throughput Efficiency & Resource Use

Placing patients in observation (OBS) and then efficiently and effectively caring for them are great challenges for hospitals. In this webinar we will help make this challenge more manageable as we discuss what stays are appropriate for OBS and how hospitals can manage OBS patients differently. In this webinar, learn how to review an OBS case, how to determine if it should inpatient, and ways to improve flow from a case manager perspective.
Avoiding Sepsis Downgrades and Denials

Supporting Clinical Diagnoses for Medical Necessity

Clear and concise disease-specific clinical documentation is essential to support medical necessity, but how to properly document this can be a challenge for many hospitals. In this webinar, we will address the importance of collaboration across care management and clinical teams, key documentation points a CDI specialist looks for that help document the level of severity of illness, and examples of proper documentation to minimize payer denials.
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