Information and advice needed
46 yo male hospitalist here.
Our hospitalist program is now going to be outsourced to a company called team health. I was told they are a difficult company to work for. Any advice / insights, appreciated.
Thanks
Our emergency department is run by teamhealth. 1-2 attendings “supervising” 4-5 midlevels. Attendings never see patients. Most are new grads. Constant major mistakes and no accountability. This summer I got a missed open fracture in my office once per week. I complained and the ED director basically told me To stay in my lane. Number one reason I’m leaving my current job.
Any of these large groups, including team health which is probably one of the largest if not the largest, focus on metrics. If your previous group cared a lot about metrics such as admission times, discharge times, patient satisfaction scores then you’ll be used to it.
If your previous group had a lot of autonomy and did not have a lot of micromanaging, within a year or two you’re probably going to quit.
The shift is dramatic. For example, when team health took over everyone was required to have a non physician Shadow them for at least a day and would give you tips on how to be more likable to improve your patient satisfaction score.
That’s what’s coming. Plus get ready to get bi monthly reports on if you are meeting whatever arbitrary discharge goal they want you to hit.
What state are you in?! I applied for a Hospitalist position thru them and they are not very honest about the actual positions. They post one thing on their website but in reality it’s different.
I’d say…start looking for a new job…I don’t know how reliable they are but from an applicant perspective…I don’t want to work for them
Team health is pretty prevalent in the emergency medicine world. Most of my colleagues who worked for them all quit in a year or less. I’ve heard nothing but bad things.
I worked in the ED for team health for 8 years. The company they bought out had bonuses, vacation, and stock options. All of those things were slowly phased out. TeamHealth is owned by an investment firm, and they care about shareholder profit. We slowly lost all of our benefits during the pandemic. I was lucky enough to get a 401k with match in 2014, but guy who was recently hired told me he has no 401k matching. How is that possible in 2022? They exploit our altruism and EMTALA laws to underpay and undervalue employees in a systematic way. I frequently stayed over without getting paid. I could go on…
A private equity controlled provider group? What could possibly go wrong?
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Run as fast as you can
It’s a national group that does medical staffing. Unfortunately, most times if you want to live in a desirable area, they will be there. I hear non competes suck because they are literally everywhere.
TeamHealth is another VC controlled cancer
Everyone knows EM has growing too fast and is now fucking itself in the ass.
Team Health sounds like the viagra
TH is garbage. Find a new job if you can
Team is everything that is wrong with medicine. They are a for profit business first, shareholders come second, patients are probably in the top 10 somewhere and they don’t care about the physicians at all. I personally would go back to school and be an engineer before I worked for team health
If you keep good notes and are willing to share, you may be able to retire in a few years while doing some good for the house of medicine and patients. Being a whistleblower pays multiple types of dividends.
Any company run hospitalist groups are evil… worked with team health and sound physician before
I have worked for TeamHealth for 3.5 years as a hospitalist. Depending on your relationship with medicine they’re fine. No reimbursement for licensing or education beyond a SHM membership. It’s very difficult to negotiate any sort of change to what they offer for compensation. It’s purely a job and they’re your employer. A lot will depend on your hospital director in the day to day operations but it’s honestly not a horrible experience.
How commonplace are privately run hospitalist groups? I’ve heard of some but it seems like they’re very few and far between.
Have a non physician shadow me and give me pointers on patient interactions??
Do I get to shadow them in a board meeting and give them pointers on how to run a fucking practice?
Oh wait, I did that…when I was the medical observer on a PE based board. They don’t have a clue about patient care, nor do they have any interest in learning. It was stunning how little they needed to understand to feel comfortable running the place.
I had one of these people follow me in the ED when TeamHealth took over. She said I did well, but “forgot to thank the patient for coming in”. I think it sounds condescending to “thank” the patient for coming to the ER. Thanks for having a giant laceration with an arterial bleed. Thanks for coming in for your NSTEMI. Thanks for coming in with your baby who is failure to thrive. It’s ridiculous. No one with a real emergency wants to be there. Thanking them seems like a slap in the face. It just shows how disconnected the non-clinical people are.
Layperson here, so I don’t know all the medical protocol or scientific requirements: Are you legally allowed to punch those people in the face, or do you have to tell them to go fuck themselves and stop there?