TeamHealth Leaders to Present at Studer Group's 10th Annual What's Right in Health Care® National Conference

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TeamHealth leaders will present at the 10^th annual What's Right in Health Care conference, taking place Oct. 10-12 in Nashville, Tenn., at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. Lynn Massingale, MD, FACEP, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of TeamHealth and Laura Dollison, MD, FACEP, Senior Vice President of TeamHealth East will offer a presentation titled "Select, Retain, Educate: A Physician Focused Model for ED Success." During the presentation, Massingale and Dollison will offer valuable insight into TeamHealth's successful strategy to recruit and retain high quality physicians and provide them with tools to support and excel their practice.

"Our hospital clients have high expectations of us—improved patient satisfaction scores, reduced throughput times, excellent clinical quality and financial accountability," said Massingale. "During TeamHealth's presentation, attendees will learn how our partnership with Studer Group® led to the implementation of a number of evidence-based leadership tactics that enhanced our selection, retention and education model."

Tactics presented will include: TeamHealth's sourcing strategies, interviewing tips and best practices for onboarding success; rounding on direct reports; and a provider engagement survey to benchmark success of existing efforts and identify additional areas for improvement.

TeamHealth's presentation will take place Wednesday, Oct. 10, 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. in room Canal CD.

What's Right in Health Care is one of the largest peer-to-peer networking conferences in the nation where attendees get state-of-the-industry insights from powerhouse keynote speakers, learn best practices from high-impact breakout sessions, and is a time to celebrate and reconnect to the passion that drew us to healthcare in the first place. For more information about What's Right in Health Care, visit www.whatsrightinhealthcare.com.

About TeamHealth 
TeamHealth (Knoxville, Tenn.) (NYSE: TMH) is one of the largest providers of outsourced physician staffing solutions for hospitals in the United States. Through its 17 regional locations and multiple service lines, TeamHealth's more than 8,300 affiliated healthcare professionals provide emergency medicine, hospital medicine, anesthesia, urgent care, and pediatric staffing and management services to approximately 790 civilian and military hospitals, clinics, and physician groups in 47 states. The term "TeamHealth" as used throughout this release includes Team Health, Inc., and all of its related entities, divisions, subsidiaries and affiliated physicians and physician groups. For more information about TeamHealth, visit www.teamhealth.com.

About Studer Group^®: 

Studer Group's mission is to change the face of healthcare by creating a better place for employees to work, physicians to practice medicine, and patients to receive care. A recipient of the 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Studer Group is an outcomes-based healthcare performance improvement firm that coaches hundreds of hospitals, health systems, medical practices, and end-of-life organizations to achieve and sustain clinical results. Collectively, these organizations serve as a national learning lab in which Studer Group harvests, tests, and refine the best practices it shares with others in the industry. To learn more about Studer Group, visit www.studergroup.com.

SOURCE TeamHealth