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In a 2022 article published on the Kaufman Hall website, Bates praised the practices of industry-leading Emory Critical Care Center at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. The critical care center employs 200 advanced practice providers and 88 physicians. Not only is that the inverse of the typical staffing, but the supervising physicians don’t roam the wards. They’re sitting in a “centralized system-wide e-command center,” Bates wrote. Vishal Bakshi, a physician assistant who serves as Emory’s chief advanced practice provider, says the organization has “embraced the idea of having an efficient system of health-care delivery with the APP at the forefront and the physician acting as the manager of the flow,” he says. “There are many ways to do medicine. We are going to do it with APPs as the backbone of the ICU.”