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How Could the Florida Physician Shortage Affect Your Facility? Part 2

It is projected that physician demand will grow faster than supply, leading to a total physician shortage of between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians nationwide by 2034.[i] Thankfully, leaders are looking for solutions to this shortage. On March 18th, 2021, a bill was introduced to the Senate to increase the number of residency positions eligible for graduate medical education payments under Medicare for qualifying hospitals in rural areas and health professional shortage areas. Currently, the law increases the positions by 200 per fiscal year beginning in FY2023. With the new proposed law, that number would increase more to an additional 2,000 positions per fiscal year from FY2023-FY2029.[ii] With this and reducing a physicians’ school debt, it will help to promote a larger future physician workforce.   The Physician Shortage Situation in Florida In Florida only, there is a staggering shortage of physicians, especially primary care physicians. The Health Resources and Services Administration estimates that currently Florida already needs an additional 1,636 primary care physicians to address the existing shortage.[iii] The shortage is projected to grow to over 3,000 primary care physicians by 2025 and as high as 4,671 by 2023.[iv][v] In order to help combat this upcoming physician shortage epidemic, Florida’s …

Our Contact Tracing Service Can Help Keep Your Doors Open and Your Staff Safe

Our Contact Tracing Service Can Help Keep Your Doors Open and Your Staff Safe

Businesses across the country are implementing contact tracing for COVID-19 positive employees. Does your business have a plan to keep the virus from spreading? The past year has been one of the most difficult for business owners. In addition to all the other responsibilities on their to-do lists, they now also have to worry about keeping their staff and customers safe from the novel coronavirus. If an employee contracts the virus, what processes are in place? What needs to happen to keep the virus from spreading? Does the business have to close? These are the types of questions business owners have been asking for months, and they are important. As is now readily apparent, contact tracing is an invaluable tool that businesses can use to stay open and safe during the pandemic. These are some of the ways that our services can help. Keep Track of Employee Status Businesses in every industry are doing their best to keep the doors open and the lights on. What that means for employees is an increased risk of contracting the virus. If an employee contracts the virus, comes into contact with someone who has tested positive, or shows symptoms, it is important to …

We Offer More Than Scribe Services: Here’s How We Can Help You Overcome COVID-19

The United States COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to hit record numbers as the cases topped 200,000 for the third time this week. Even more worrying for U.S. citizens is the first case of a new, fast-spreading variant of COVID-19, which was just reported in Colorado on Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 (https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/covid-2020-12-30). Once we all get back to work from the holiday break, how can organizations handle the constant contact tracing and the additional workload that COVID-19 and the flu season have brought on? What about keeping track of who is vaccinated and who isn’t? Our scribe services, contact tracing, and healthcare screening programs are designed to help answer these questions. How Do Scribe Services and Contact Tracing Help Your Staff? We founded Scrivas as a scribe service company focusing on reducing physician burnout by helping to alleviate the burden of the documentation tasks associated with the implementation of EHR systems. Our scribe service workforce has pivoted to fill essential roles as CoVid Contact Tracers and frontline CoVid Facility Screeners, alleviating the burden of this newly defined essential role for companies and schools that are being stretched by these new processes. Scrivas’ complete COVID Exposure Management Service leverages the latest technology combined …

COVID-19 Infected Employee Taking Temperatures At Work

Guiding Your COVID-19 Infected Employee

Time is of the essence when an employee or patron is found to be symptomatic or comes in contact with a known COVID-19 exposure. It is imperative to have updated strategies for your staff to help prevent and reduce transmission among the other employees.  This can be done by following existing and updated recommendations by federal, state, and local public health sectors and following the 5 step guide below. Employers should identify a qualified employee that will be responsible for any COVID related issues & concerns and help to develop and implement a response plan with regards to infection control preparedness. When an employee becomes symptomatic and/or comes in contact with a confirmed case, you should instruct that person to self-quarantine at home until released by a physician or public health official. The qualified employee should refer the case and/or contact to the CDC guidelines noted here:  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/steps-when-sick.html After being informed that the employee has been exposed, is symptomatic or diagnosed with COVID-19, the qualified employee from step one should quickly identify all other employees who might have been in contact during the employee’s infection time period starting 2 days prior to symptom onset. The qualified employee should reach out …

COVID Employee Exposure Management & Contact Tracing

COVID-19 has been detrimental not only in the United States with over 2 million total cases but for the entire world totaling 7.6 million total cases as of June 12, 2020. Although the total new cases have lessened, and the economies world wide have started to reopen, it is paramount that we have exposure management within our communities and businesses to ensure we can keep this pandemic at bay. Scrivas’COVID Employee Exposure Management Service can mitigate your risk. How Can Our COVID Employee Exposure Management Service Help You? State and local health departments have continued to rely on contact tracing to respond to the rapidly changing local circumstances but what about private companies, hospitals, and medical practices? As of now, more than 80% of private companies do not have protocols in place to track and manage the status of potential and confirmed COVID-19 exposures. “It’s clear that you can do a lot of control if you do contact tracing really well,” Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said last month. But if there are too many cases, or testing limitations mean you can’t identify cases quickly enough, “it’s easy to overwhelm a relatively constrained …