Unit-based assignments may make life easier for hospitalists
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, March 25, 2008
An article in the March issue of Today's Hospitalist highlights Mesa, AZ-based Banner Baywood Medical Center's success with unit-based assignments for hospitalists. Instead of roaming from floor to floor and unit to unit, hospitalists are assigned to one of five of the hospital's eight units in two-month rotations.
Hospitalists resisted the effort at first for fear of feeling caged in one place all day and being assigned heavier workloads compared to their free-roaming peers, according to the story. However, the benefits appear to outweigh the costs. The unit-based assignments have:
- Reduced travel between floors and units
- Reduced phone calls
- Allowed more time for physicians to talk to patients, family members, consultants, and nurses
- Reduced patient length of stay by one day
- Given hospitalists a sense of ownership
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