Delivering genuine partnerships among facilities, local physician groups, and ECI Healthcare Partners requires a backbone of strong leadership, and that's what we deliver.

An evaluation of client satisfaction is an everyday part of our management philosophy. We find the simplest way to measure success is through direct and frequent communication with our clients. It’s a matter of asking, "How can we make our partnership stronger?"

As leading recruiters of board-certified physicians, we are experts in locating, qualifying, and recruiting the best emergency physicians. Because we’ve been recruiting providers for over 40 years, we know everyone. Our comprehensive database allows us to drill down to your most important criteria.

Aside from the opportunity to work alongside the best, Emergency Consultants' affiliated partnerships offer a comprehensive package that reflects our value in people. Most providers are drawn to our excellent reputation, performance, and name recognition in emergency medicine. We also provide:

• Equitable financial arrangements and competitive compensation
• Freedom from non-competes
• Flexible scheduling
• Comprehensive insurance packages
• Occurrence-based malpractice insurance
• Online CME

We take great care to obtain a thorough understanding of the staffing needs of our healthcare partners. After interviewing key members of the hospital community, our Client Services Teams can better find physicians who match the practice and the hospital.

We have become a national leader in the development and implementation of state-of-the-art patient satisfaction programs. Our program, APEX: Advancing the Patient Experience by Achieving Partnership Excellence, educates providers on ways to promote patient satisfaction and enhance their own medical careers.

The core principles of APEX have enabled our affiliate hospitals to dramatically increase patient satisfaction survey scores and achieve markedly reduced patient walk-outs and increased patient volumes.

We implement programs designed to prevent medical errors and improve patient safety. Our Mistake-Free Medicine program was founded on two key components:

1. To identify a standard of care and measure potential errors.
2. To reduce errors through process and behavioral changes.

We have demonstrated a commitment to quality patient care by earning the federally accredited Patient Safety Organization (PSO) designation. Emergency Consultants is the first organization of its kind to earn the designation as a listed PSO.

The goal of the program is to increase patient safety, promote high-quality patient care, and reduce medical errors. The ECI PSO case reviews are performed by physicians from all affiliated practice groups, representing a wide variety of practice patterns and locations.

Using the PSO’s proprietary database, the members can provide accurate, thoughtful, and scientific case studies that serve to provide feedback, impact practice environments, and educate physicians and midlevel providers. We are proud of the work done by the PSO and the significant impact on the lives of patients.

Quality malpractice coverage isn’t usually the top priority on a physician’s or administrator’s list…until you need it. We exceed industry standards for coverage. Our occurrence-based malpractice protects physicians and hospitals forever. Most importantly, because we are physician focused, we protect the reputation and pocketbooks of our partners by aggressively defending claims. We provide peace of mind.

In collaboration with the physician partnership, nursing leadership, and hospital administration, we devise and initiate quality improvement measures. These measures enhance both clinical and service quality.

Our quality initiatives are effective in part due to the large volume of actionable data that is supplied by SymMetric Revenue Solutions. Transparent statistics on patient volume, provider productivity, coding levels, and payor mix trends means there’s no more guessing about what’s going on in your ED.

As part of the computer-based ECI PSO QualChart System, our physician and nursing Clinical Guidelines are available to our partners. The material presented can help in the diagnosis and treatment of a variety of illnesses and injuries. These guidelines are also excellent teaching tools for staff members of all levels.

The ECI Advisory Group, an internal consulting team of physicians and nurses, may also be deployed on a focused project to improve workflow or processes of the emergency department.

We offer a single source portal for accessing all practice data, as well as current and best practices. Offering Vital Signs, CMS Core Measure reports, timely educational materials, and provider forums, the information presented ensures everyone understands what is going on with their local ED.

Highlighted below are some of our digital solutions:

ECI LearnCenter is a hub for more than 100 CME courses. It also includes instructional videos to support chart completion and accurate documentation as well as EMTALA, HIPAA, and APEX patient satisfaction training.

Medical Director Toolbox includes CMS documentation guidelines, Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE), Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE), quality improvement forms, a video-based Leadership Resource Guide, and Medical Directors’ Forum.

The Documentation and Education Website delivers feedback to providers on documentation and coding on a recurring basis. These websites provide detailed information regarding documentation deficiencies and how to avoid them. We communicate with Symmetric Revenue Solutions to ensure all charts are complete and billed on time.

Our partner, SymMetric Revenue Solutions deploys patient-friendly billing practices that ensure we collect every earned dollar. With sophisticated production and auditing tools, SymMetric ensures every chart is accounted for, coded properly, billed proficiently, and collected timely. When there is a question, the helpful customer service staff quickly resolves any issues with a “solve it on the first call” philosophy.

Our Education Department has a clear focus on quality assurance and risk management. We ensure the highest standards of care, patient experience, and compliance with The Joint Commission. Our partners rely on this valuable resource as an extension of their own education and quality improvement needs.

Emergency Consultants is fully accredited, with honors, by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) as a provider of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit.

ACCME accreditation assures the medical community and public that our Continuing Medical Education (CME) activities are high-quality, well-researched, best-practice-based courses.

An education consultant is also available to provide your healthcare facility with an array of services, including:

• Development or improvement of triage programs
• Clinical education and competency issues
• The Joint Commission, EMTALA, and OSHA compliance

To promote quality we educate our providers and participate in the following:

Core Measures
There is only one acceptable standard when it comes to Core Measures: 100% success. Based on national Core Measures data, our affiliated healthcare partners have outperformed their counterparts.

PQRS - Physician Quality Reporting System
The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) is a payment for data reporting. Through our partner, SymMetric Revenue Solutions, we continue to submit hundreds of thousands of data points on PQRS indicators to CMS.

We offer the ECI PSO QualChart System: a sophisticated, user-friendly, template-based charting system that offers legible and complete patient care records. Additionally, it supplements your hospital’s unique charting system with valuable modules designed to enhance patient safety and promote quality care.

The QualChart System includes the following components, which follow the entire patient experience – from diagnosis to discharge:

• Documentation templates for hundreds of illnesses and injuries
• After-care patient instruction forms available in English and Spanish
• Joint Commission-Compliant Nursing documentation records
• Evidence-based best practice physician and nursing clinical guidelines
• Extensive educational resources

Many of our locations offer personal scribe services. This service allows providers to focus more on patient care and less on administrative functions and documentation. Furthermore, scribes help increase efficiency when electronic medical records are used at a facility as well as boost patient and physician satisfaction.