Hire specialists to expand your hospitalist program
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, March 14, 2007
An article in the March issue of Hospitalist Program Weekly, published by HCPro Inc., focuses on the use of specialists as a way to expand a hospital medicine program. Some specialists (e.g., gastroenterologists, laryngologists) have the potential to fit seamlessly into a mature hospitalist group, expanding its scope of expertise and potentially broadening the overall business, the article states. According to the article, the rationale behind adding specialized hospitalists is similar to what led to general hospital medicine in the first place. Harald Schoeppner, MD, part of a gastroenterologist hospitalist program that provides services to six hospitals in Tacoma, WA, and Knoxville, TN, is quoted in the article as saying, "There were a lot of inefficiencies . . . We thought [a gastroenterologist hospitalist program] would improve the quality of life for the physicians and provide better care for patients. You gain experience by being [in the hospital] and having a routine," he says.
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