Until recently doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants working in elder care residential facilities were left pretty much on their own. Most clinicians did not enter medicine to pursue geriatrics, much less nursing home, work. Few thought becoming a geriatrician would provide a rewarding career and most entrepreneurs and payors were focused on "making money" in hospitals and traditional outpatient/outpatient procedure ventures.
Like all professional medical specialties, the principles of strength and value in numbers and standardization of delivery models/legal structures has taken place. In 2015 there was a sentinel event when TeamHealth published a press release stating they had purchased IPC Healthcare (a hospitalist and post-acute/long-term care clinician organization) for 1.6 BILLION dollars!
While there has been considerable discussion whether this was a sound financial transaction, it brought national attention to the reality that the economics of physicians, nurse practitioners and physicians assistants working in nursing homes could generate significant financial return on investment by delivering professional medical services, contracted Medical Director services, and reducing the amount of money spent on the population of patients they serve.
Flash forward to 2023 there are tens of thousands of physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants dedicating their careers to caring for elderly patients with complex medical needs that result in their residing in a skilled nursing, long-term care, rehabilitation, or assisted-living facility. Some of you work for yourselves but most are employees of a corporate medical or independent medical practice. And it is reported that the majority of you are suffering from mild to severe burnout symptoms due to the impact of the COVID pandemic, the staffing crisis in the buildings where you provide services, changing reimbursement and compensation models, and the list goes on and on. Not to mention the fact that every clinician goes through the personal highs and lows that impact everyone.
OGS was created to help coach post-acute/long-term care clinicians and other eldercare professionals seeking personal work-life balance and financial success. This is done by assessing and creating action plans around the areas of workplace assessment, work-life balance, career fulfillment, burnout avoidance, resilience, leadership, career planning, entrepreneurship, and communication.
Like all professional medical specialties, the principles of strength and value in numbers and standardization of delivery models/legal structures has taken place. In 2015 there was a sentinel event when TeamHealth published a press release stating they had purchased IPC Healthcare (a hospitalist and post-acute/long-term care clinician organization) for 1.6 BILLION dollars!
While there has been considerable discussion whether this was a sound financial transaction, it brought national attention to the reality that the economics of physicians, nurse practitioners and physicians assistants working in nursing homes could generate significant financial return on investment by delivering professional medical services, contracted Medical Director services, and reducing the amount of money spent on the population of patients they serve.
Flash forward to 2023 there are tens of thousands of physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants dedicating their careers to caring for elderly patients with complex medical needs that result in their residing in a skilled nursing, long-term care, rehabilitation, or assisted-living facility. Some of you work for yourselves but most are employees of a corporate medical or independent medical practice. And it is reported that the majority of you are suffering from mild to severe burnout symptoms due to the impact of the COVID pandemic, the staffing crisis in the buildings where you provide services, changing reimbursement and compensation models, and the list goes on and on. Not to mention the fact that every clinician goes through the personal highs and lows that impact everyone.
OGS was created to help coach post-acute/long-term care clinicians and other eldercare professionals seeking personal work-life balance and financial success. This is done by assessing and creating action plans around the areas of workplace assessment, work-life balance, career fulfillment, burnout avoidance, resilience, leadership, career planning, entrepreneurship, and communication.
