| Hospitalist
Practice
Over the years, the practice of medicine has changed considerably. We
continually monitor those changes to assist our client hospitals in providing
high quality, cost-effective care. Over the past few years we have closely
evaluated the hospitalist movement and developed a hospitalist
practice model that can be
customized for each individual facility.
Our Strengths Are:
- Show
“local” Docs
- Local
Management Presence
- Strong
Leadership
- “Team
Approach” on all levels
- Financial
Model
- Flexibility
in program set-up
- Shared
Risk
The limited amount of time Family Practitioners and Internists
are able to spend at the hospital can make coordinating care
difficult. Outpatient medicine has become a very complex specialty in itself, and without the interruption of
hospital rounds and calls for orders on inpatients, the Family Practitioners and
Internists can focus their attention solely on the outpatient
practice.
By improving patient care, managing unassigned patients, expanding referral
areas, and more efficiently using facility ancillary services, hospitalist practices can be
very productive and cost effective.
Our physicians work to improve outcomes and maintain patient satisfaction while
decreasing the length of the inpatient stay and the charges incurred. Because they are in
the hospital all day, these physicians can respond to a patient more quickly and make
rounds to the admitted patients multiple times each day if needed.
Success of our hospitalist programs hinges on the communication systems between the
inpatient and outpatient physicians. Continuity of care can only be achieved through that
communication on admission and discharge. Both physicians participating in the information
sharing makes this new concept one of the fastest growing in the country.
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