Central Emergency Physicians in Richmond, KY

Central Mercer Physicians is a physician owned group. We enjoy being a small group that allows us to maintain a connection with every one of our members and sort of create a family feel. We think Central Immersive Physicians provides a higher level of patient care by providing a very unique immersion department to staffing model. A few of the ways that we do that is we have ten hour shifts rather than twelve hour shifts.

Twelve hour shifts have been shown through a lot of research to lead to physician burnout, and quite frankly, the patient care at the end of those twelve hour shifts is not as good. We also have physician overlap, meaning that at the end of one physician shift, another physician is coming in and that allows the, first physician to focus on wrapping up the patient so you do not have to hand it off to the next physician or the next provider. We want the given person who initiated care for that patient to continue the care throughout the entire visit. And then the final part is a one physician to one APP ratio.

And APPs are your physician assistants or your nurse practitioners. You know exactly who you're working with for that shift. You do not get overloaded by patients that you're not familiar with. You actually have time to have detailed conversation about the patients that they're taking care of and even go see those patients if necessary.

We've been at Lexington for thirty two years, and obviously, we've expanded to Baptist Health Richmond. Patient care is number one on their list, and I think they're really focused on making sure that Richmond and surrounding community can come to Baptist Health Richmond, get all the care that they need so they don't have to travel somewhere else. And so we're really excited about that.