The use of hospitalists at hospitals throughout the United States has become increasingly popular. Hospitalist programs can improve patient outcomes and reduce the need for admitting physicians to ...

We demonstrated that variability existed in hospitalist workload at academic PHM programs. We found considerable variation in the workload per hospitalist (large ranges and standard deviations), as ...

While hospitalist programs are increasingly popular and can lead to improved outcomes, only half of the approximately 5,000 hospitals in the United States have implemented these programs, according to ...

Hospitalist programs could help all types of institutions, according to speakers at the pre-course of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) annual meeting in Washington, DC Thursday. "I couldn't ...

Why hospitalists are essential to population health management, how to get physician leaders on board with shared clinical protocols, and how data can rein in patient complications, mortality, and ...

, a national leader in the field of hospital medicine and critical care medicine, announced today the official launch of the , the first objective tool designed to measure the capabilities of a ...

WILLMAR -- A hospitalist program will be established at Rice Memorial Hospital next year under a proposal approved Wednesday by the hospital's board of directors. The program, a joint venture between ...

Greeno-Hawley Hospital Medicine Index to Help Hospitalist Programs Achieve Optimal Performance BRENTWOOD, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cogent HMG, a national leader in the field of hospital medicine and ...

In the not-too-distant past, a primary care doctor would admit nonemergency patients to a hospital and coordinate the care until their discharge. That tradition has given way to hospitals hiring ...

A recent online job posting for "hospitalist Ambassadors" by Sound Physicians, a multistate hospitalist group based in Tacoma, Washington, highlights an innovative approach to covering the inevitable ...

Hospitalists are physicians specially trained in the care of hospitalized patients. In critical access hospitals (CAHs), the annual cost of a physician-based hospitalist program is approximately $1M.