White Paper: Scheduling Strategies To Optimize Value In A Challenging Emergency Care System
Publication Date: 12 July 2010
By:
Jerree Forbes, EdD.
CEO, The Forbes Group, LLC
This white paper identifies key challenges in the emergency care system and offers a discussion of potential improvement action points. The paper focuses on resource allocation and scheduling as a system "leverage point" for significant gain in physician and emergency department performance. Optimized scheduling is a strategy to augment successful management of the emergency department's performance barriers. Best practices in scheduling offer a buffer against some of the key challenges in the emergency department. This paper is intended to assist in best practice decision-making by emergency department leaders and executives, emergency physicians and emergency physician schedulers.