Challenges of a hospital-employed ED: leadership and accountability

One of the biggest fallacies about a hospital-employed ED model is that if you want it to succeed, your hospital must either manage the ED autonomously or relinquish control to an outside group.

That's not the case. Many solutions exist to support and strengthen management of a hospital-employed ED.

To address that concern, we're looking at four major challenges hospitals face when employing emergency medicine physicians. The first, already published, focused on the most common: recruitment. This week, we examine leadership and accountability.

As the leader of an especially unique department within the larger hospital ecosystem, ED medical directors can often feel -- or operate -- like an island. The question is: Whose headache is it? Answer: If you do nothing…everyone’s.

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