The founders of Synergy Health Partners are visionaries of the Surgicalist Model—a hospital-based career path for surgeons that separates private practice work from acute hospital-based care. Surgicalists are on call to support hospitals and private practice doctors. Unlike locums tenens clinicians, Surgicalists are active members of a hospital’s medical staff, are members of embedded teams, and they work scheduled shifts at their designated facilities. They can also serve on committees and are clinical leaders in the communities they serve.
The Surgicalist Model
An Innovative Team-Based Approach to Care
Benefits to Surgeons
- Restores work-life balance with predictable schedules
- Provides autonomy, allowing surgeons to enjoy real-time to do things they enjoy in their personal lives
- Empowers surgeons to focus on their passion for quality patient care, reducing administrative hassles
- National opportunities
- Competitive compensation
- Team-based model
- Helps surgeons live their best lives
- What is a Surgicalist?
Benefits to Hospitals
Surgical teams work coordinated shifts 24/7/365 with detailed handoffs to cover emergent, acute, and inpatient consult needs, resulting in:
- Predictable physician staffing
- Decreased wait times and length of stay
- Improved patient throughput
- Increased elective volume
- Increased downstream revenue
- Increased surgical volume to ER
- Decreased time ER to OR
- Improved HCAHPS
- Decreased readmissions