Medical Staff

Featured blog post: The "one-visit follow-up clinic"

Hospitalist Leadership Connection, November 2, 2009

Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Hospitalist Leadership Connection!

A frequent impediment to reducing length of stay with an unassigned (or “no-doc”) patient is the lack of an outpatient physician with whom the patient can get an appointment. In many, many places around the country, primary care physicians have overflowing practices and cannot take on unassigned patients very easily.

One solution to this dilemma is what I call the “one-visit follow-up clinic.” At Inpatient Management Inc., we are about to launch our first such clinic. The idea works like this: we, as the hospitalist team, will provide one follow-up visit to patients who do not have a primary care physician. The clinic might see patients two half-days per week, depending on volume, and can be staffed by a nurse practitioner with supervision from one of the hospitalists. . .Read more of this post by Kirk Mathews, MBA at HospitalistLeadership.com.



Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Hospitalist Leadership Connection!

Most Popular

Related Articles