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 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 ...

Hospitals are turning toward hospitalists to help them address physician shortages and ever-growing patient volumes in the inpatient setting. In fact, in 2012, hospitalists were found to be the second ...

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 ...

Hospitalists are internal medicine doctors, pediatricians and obstetricians who manage the care of patients admitted into a hospital. Primary care physicians usually only see patients outside the ...

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 ...