Featured blog post: What's the number one duty of a hospitalist? Patient safety?
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, September 8, 2009
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When Robert M. Centor, MD, did his morning rounds, he found one patient named Jones in one room, and another patient also named Jones in the next room. That was a mistake waiting to happen, said Centor, associate dean for the Huntsville Regional Medical Campus at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, in an interview with HealthLeaders Media I conducted last month.
That’s where the true value of the hospitalist comes in.
“Hospitalists will help the C-suite improve patient safety,” said Centor, who is the voice behind the DB’s Medical Rants blog. Given that hospitalists practically live in the hospital, they are the go-to people for consistency of care and operations. . .Read more on the HospitalistLeadership.com blog.
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