Skilled Nursing News December 16, 2022
In an industry of acronyms, “APC” might get lost in the shuffle.
But talk to the patients to whom they deliver life-changing care and APCs will never be overlooked.
An Advanced Practice Clinician, or APC, is a nurse practitioner or physician assistant, and for quite some time they have been delivering quality care in the post-acute setting through collaborative practice models with physicians. Their impact in post-acute settings — on clinical quality, patient outcomes, patient satisfaction and cost — is profound.
The dual increase of chronic illness and multi-morbidity enhances the acuity of care and often outpaces the patient load requirements for physicians. To strengthen the workforce, TeamHealth, the nation’s leading integrated physician practice and provider of post-acute services, is...
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