News and briefs: Specialty hospitalists will revolutionize inpatient care
Medical Staff Leader Connection, October 20, 2011
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Fifteen years ago, hospitals and physicians began to warm to a revolutionary idea: hospital-based physicians could provide the same or a better level of care to a patient in the hospital as a primary care physician. Today, hospitalists now work in every major hospital across the country.
Today, a similar revolutionary idea is taking hold in hospitals, an idea that is changing the way hospital and healthcare leaders look at the caregivers that staff their hospitals. Doctors in nearly every specialty are choosing to adopt the hospitalist model of practice. To read more, click here.
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