Policies and procedures to develop a practical and physician-friendly hospitalists program - designed to improve and streamline patient care from the ER through discharge and transitional care period.
This article discusses the challenges and nuances involved in using CAUTI and CLABSI rates as performance measures for ...
This article appears in the April 2013 issue of HealthLeaders magazine. Years ago, doctors would make rounds to supervise care for dozens of hospitalized patients. Now physicians often want to ...
Women’s and children’s healthcare services are vastly expanding in hospitals throughout the nation. In the time since the term hospitalist was first mentioned in a 1996 article by Robert Wachter, MD, ...
Hospitalists serve a unique role in patient care. Rather than focus on a specific organ system or disease, hospitalists specialize in the comprehensive care of hospitalized patients. They see patients ...
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine invites applicants for the OB/GYN Hospitalist Fellowship program. This program is a two-year fellowship designed to provide ...
On Dec. 5, 2018, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that Advanced Care Hospitalists PL (ACH) had entered into a $500,000 settlement ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - It’s becoming more rare for family doctors to leave the clinic and make rounds at the hospital. Instead, these days, a new generation called hospitalists are your familiar face ...
What's Different About Hospitalists? Hospitalists' patients tend to be sicker than those of primary care physicians, given that they are already hospital inpatients. Hospitalists also lack the ...
A move by NCH Healthcare System toward employed hospitalists handling more patient admissions means hiring more of the hospital-based physicians. NCH has several advertisements on popular recruitment ...
Some hospitals are also looking to expand the role of hospitalists who do double duty, working in clinics and in hospitals. These hospitalists are known as extensivists. In a 2011 study of patients ...