Why is rural hospital staffing so difficult?

Physician shortages impact hospitals and patients across the country, but rural hospital staffing is even more difficult. These hospitals depend on general practitioners, like hospitalists and nocturnist, to fill the gaps in coverage. Factors are conspiring to make the hunt for hospitalists even more challenging:

  • Growth: Demand continues to outpace supply
  • Competition: Salaries are rising
  • Repercussions: Turnover is increasing

Take the first step toward a solution. Consider telemedicine coverage.

Why is it so hard to find and keep hospitalists?

CASE STUDY: ANTHONY MEDICAL CENTER

Telemedicine Hospital Staffing Allows Rural
Patients to Receive Care Locally

This 25-bed Critical Access Hospital in Kansas looked to Eagle Telemedicine to meet its need for hospital staffing and hospitalist coverage.

Telemedicine Questions

PROBLEM

Finding Hospitalist coverage
in a rural community

Telemedicine Challenges

CHALLENGE

Maintain access to care

without hiring a full-time provider

Hospitalist Telemedicine

SOLUTION

Eagle TeleHospitalists

WESTERN WISCONSIN HEALTH • WISCONSIN • HOSPITALIST

Critical Access Hospital Gains Stability with Hospitalist Telemedicine

Western Wisconsin Health is a Critical Access Hospital in Baldwin, Wisconsin—population 4,000, about 30 miles east of Minneapolis. It includes 11 acute care beds, an obstetrics unit, a surgery unit, an emergency department (ED), and an attached rural health clinic. The hospital approached Eagle with a need for telemedicine night coverage. The facility had a hospitalist program with two physicians covering the day shift, and a nurse practitioner covering evening and nighttime hours. The departure of the NP’s in 2017 made it difficult for the facility to find consistent overnight coverage.

TeleNocturnist and Hospitalist Telemedicine Case Study

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