Florida Practitioners, LLC

Florida Practitioners is AP Health’s legal operating entity in the state of Florida, located in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Not exactly. Typically, yes, we provide key perioperative staffing components which include your Surgical First Assistants (which could be Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Certified Surgical Assistants, or Registered Nurse First Assistants (RNFA) – depending on a hospital’s case mix, volume of patients and other factors. But we also provide Advanced Practice Providers to ensure continuity of care before and after surgery as well. Plus, AP offers Information Technology and Perioperative Process Improvement services to further enhance the cost effectiveness and efficiency of a hospital’s overall perioperative services.

A Surgical Assistant is a medical professional with special training in surgery. Surgical First Assistants work closely with surgeons before, during and after surgical procedures. AP Health SFAs have years of experience and perform hundreds of surgeries per year, on average.

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It is entirely up to the surgeon or surgical group to use their own Advanced Practice Provider(s) if they have them for their patients including SFAs in the OR, Nurse Practitioners for educational care, coordination with other providers, floor care (under the supervision of a physician), transitional care, etc. We would work with your surgeons, individually, to fill any gaps they might have. A surgeon might decide to re-allocate his or her OR-based PA to the office where they can often be of greater assistance and generate more revenue for that practice.