More Hospitals Forced to Pay for Specialists Care

In this article "Specialist Shortage Shakes Emergency Rooms; More Hospitals Forced to Pay for Specialist Care" specialists being paid to be on call is becoming more frequent. Stipends are ranging from $100-$1000 per shift depending on the speciality.

Is your hospital paying for call shifts?

Is it for all specialities?

If you refuse to take call unless you recieve a stipend will you loose your hospital privileges?

This article can be read in its entirety at : http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0843/is_3_31/ai_n13817772.html

Missouri Court Upholds Liability For Call Coverage Issue

Do you have a contingency plan if your on-call person is unavailable? In this article a Doctor swapped call duty with an associate in his practice. The doctor did not inform the hospital of his arrangement. In addition the new on-call doctor did not have privileges at that hospital. A patient arrived that required care from the on-call physician who did not have privileges at the hospital. By the time the patient was admitted to the new hospital the patient was deteriorating. Subsequently the patient died and the family sued both doctors.

Does your organization have a plan in place to deal with a situation like this?

The entire article is located at: http://www.medlaw.com/healthlaw/HOSPITAL/6_2/missouri-court-upholds-li.shtml

Hospital Emergency On Call Coverage

This issue brief: "Hospital Emergency On-Call Coverage: Is There a Doctor in the House?"

"The nation’s community hospitals face increasing problems obtaining emergency on-call coverage from specialist physicians... " This topic is becoming an increasing concern throughout the specialty practice medical community, what are your thoughts?

This article can be read in its entirety at: http://www.hschange.org/CONTENT/956/

Welcome to the Call Scheduling blog

Welcome! This blog is intended for everyone who creates, maintains and publishes on call calendars for health care providers.

This is a resource blog, a place to express your opinion about hot topics of the day, a collection of articles, news information, and links about on call.

I encourage open discussion revelant to the posted topics. Topics will be posted frequently. If you have a topic you think would be good for discussion please email me at call.scheduler@gmail.com.

Happy blogging!