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The Private Equity Wave in Health Care

ACEP Now

While secrecy surrounds the operations of many PE-owned groups, Envision serves as a case study. Stinson said, “There have been [PE] facilities where I worked where a third to a half of the staff are all new residents. Usually, they’ll get two or three every now and then, but if everybody is fresh, who’s teaching who?”

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Diagnostics: The Shunt Series

Taming the SRU

Ultimately, definitive management is in the operating room with revision or replacement of the VP shunt. Case 4 3 year old unresponsive You are working as solo coverage in a critical access hospital. Unfortunately, maneuvers to relieve a proximal occlusion in the emergency department are limited.