Medical Staff Articles by Topic: Hospitalists
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
If hospitalists felt like they were trapped by a glass ceiling in the past, they can consider it...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Medical Staff Briefing is a monthly newsletter for medical staff leaders and medical staff services...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 46, November 17, 2009
Communication with doctors is one of the components of the federally mandated Hospital Consumer...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 46, November 17, 2009
Take the online poll at HospitalistLeadership.com.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 45, November 10, 2009
The current 80-hour resident duty restriction, set by the Accreditation Council for Graduate...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 45, November 10, 2009
The hospitals that use the hospitalist model have shorter length of stay, better quality of care...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 44, November 2, 2009
Hospitalist program directors can use the following questions to learn more about a hospitalist...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 44, November 2, 2009
We, as the hospitalist team, will provide one follow-up visit to patients who do not have a primary...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Although solid numbers on OB hospitalists (aka: laborists) are unavailable from the Society of...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) earlier this year introduced the first class of fellows in...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Medical Staff Briefing acts as a support system by providing time-saving tools, expert advice, and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 43, October 28, 2009
Hospitalist program managers should judge any proposed compensation plan based on the following...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 43, October 28, 2009
Some hospitalists may be responsible for overseeing resident and fellow activities. Consider the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, October 21, 2009
Correct job descriptions are critical, not only to set appropriate expectations for the hospitalist...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 42, October 20, 2009
The average hospitalist compensation is $201,000 a year, according to a new Merritt Hawkins &...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 42, October 20, 2009
Researchers at John Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore found that strong hospitalist leadership...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 42, October 20, 2009
The HospitalistLeadership.com Blog interviewed members of two OB hospitalist programs about the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 41, October 13, 2009
The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) and the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 41, October 13, 2009
With an increasingly diverse patient population, hospitalists require cultural competency to make...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 40, October 6, 2009
The best way to communicate information during service changes is a verbal handoff with written...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 40, October 6, 2009
A collaborative consultation model between geriatricians and hospitalists can help improve the care...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 40, October 6, 2009
The case manager-hospitalist relationship can be a “win-win,” says Stefani Daniels...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 40, October 6, 2009
Remember that you can find all the past issues of this e-newsletter online, dating back to 2006.
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
When debating whether to implement a neurohospitalist program, consider the losses that your...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
As they say, the devil is in the details, and no one yet knows whether a bundled-payment system...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Inside:
What docs need to know about restrictive clauses
Joint Commission task force inches...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 39, September 29, 2009
A new study says that the three major board certifying organizations—The American Board of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 39, September 29, 2009
Now, we no longer hear President Obama discuss healthcare reform, but health insurance reform.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 38, September 21, 2009
The goal of each interview is for the candidate to leave wanting the job. That puts the power of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 38, September 21, 2009
The clinical duties of a surgical hospitalist, or “surgicalist,” vary from one setting...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 38, September 21, 2009
The secret of gaining respect is to show respect to others.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 37, September 14, 2009
At 8 a.m. on September 11, 2001 we convened a meeting of the department of medicine at Milford...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 37, September 14, 2009
The hospitalist must remain in continuous contact with the treatment team during a patient’s...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 36, September 8, 2009
The Phoenix Group, a hospitalist think tank, last week released a white paper, “Hospitalists...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 36, September 8, 2009
When Robert M. Centor, MD, did his morning rounds, he found one patient named Jones in one room...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 35, September 1, 2009
As emergency department (ED) call panel stipends reach high enough levels, hospitals are taking a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 35, September 1, 2009
I recently had the opportunity to have lunch with a member of the board of directors of a company...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Inside:
Five steps to crafting foolproof contracts with independent groups
What your medical...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Rather than hiring hospitalists to compete with the internal medicine department at Metro Health...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Are pediatric hospitalist programs profitable?
It depends on how you look at it. Physician...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 34, August 25, 2009
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the population of adults 65 years of age and older will grow...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 33, August 14, 2009
Want to attend a live event for hospitalist leadership? The Greeley Medical Staff Institute...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 33, August 14, 2009
In my experience, private practice physicians often hesitate, if not outright refuse, to have...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 32, August 11, 2009
Researchers found that hospitals with hospitalists—usually nonprofit, large, teaching...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 32, August 11, 2009
Have you entered this month’s contest for two free seats at the Greeley Medical Staff...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 31, August 4, 2009
Comangement between hospitalists and orthopedic physicians can help improve surgical care of...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
This issue of Medical Staff Briefing and Hospitalist Leadership Advisor includes special reports on...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 30, July 28, 2009
As the number of hospitalists has grown, so too has their role within the hospital systems...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 30, July 28, 2009
Physicians from small groups are nearly four times more likely to become direct employees of a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 30, July 28, 2009
There’s still time to enter this month’s contest for two free seats at the Greeley...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 29, July 21, 2009
U.S. News & World Report released its annual “America’s Best Hospitals” list...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 29, July 21, 2009
Only half of primary care physicians (PCPs) feel that the presence of hospitalists improves the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 29, July 21, 2009
One of the reasons why hospitalists have become necessary is that hospitals have become...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 28, July 13, 2009
Adding more clinical data to the public reporting Web site, HospitalCompare, the Hospital Quality...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 28, July 13, 2009
A multidisciplinary team that includes a pediatric hospitalist can help reduce adverse drug events...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 28, July 13, 2009
In an effort to make the upcoming Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium (November 8-9, 2009...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 27, July 7, 2009
More than half of doctors prolong patient stays in the hospital because of a lack of home health...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 27, July 7, 2009
Many hospitals now want to know how many hospitalists they need. One approach is to calculate...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 27, July 7, 2009
One congressional committee has published a discussion draft on the House healthcare reform bill.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 27, July 7, 2009
The Greeley Medical Staff Institute Symposium is a unique forum created to foster communication...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
How much experience does the hospital have managing physician practices? If your hospital is like...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Pediatric hospitalist programs are blossoming. In fact, 25% of current pediatric hospitalist...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 26, June 30, 2009
NPs can practice independently in some states, but not in others. Prepare a “script&rdquo...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 26, June 30, 2009
Patients under hospitalist care, particularly intensivist care, experienced shorter length of stay...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 26, June 30, 2009
Interactive media has transformed the way job searches are conducted today. Here are tips for how...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 25, June 23, 2009
Available in one-third of U.S. hospitals, short-stay units are typically located next to emergency...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 25, June 23, 2009
As the ranks of hospital medicine continue to swell, the need for leadership development is...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 25, June 23, 2009
It is crucial to learn as much as possible about candidates before inviting them to interview.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 24, June 16, 2009
Only 17% of hospitalist teaching time is spent at the patient’s bedside, according to a new...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 24, June 16, 2009
Pat Spurlock, assistant director of professional affairs at the American Academy of Physician...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 24, June 16, 2009
Congress is likely to enact some sort of health reform before the year is out, and we can be sure...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 23, June 9, 2009
Congress addressed the national shortage of primary care providers (PCP) with a new bill...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 23, June 9, 2009
Crowding in the emergency department (ED) is caused, in part, because of a lack of inpatient beds...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 23, June 9, 2009
Is there a national standard? The answer is really, no; it’s very community dependent.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 23, June 9, 2009
One controversial application of this concept is the laborist, who specializes in infant delivery.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 22, June 2, 2009
Out of the 77 hospital executive respondents, 78% of those hospitals subsidized their pediatric...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 22, June 2, 2009
One way to improve the hospitalist-case manager relationship is to involve leaders from both...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 22, June 2, 2009
When presenting savings from length-of-stay reduction, remember to acknowledge revenue lost on...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 22, June 2, 2009
HCPro, Inc., understands that budgets are tight, so we've dropped the price from $269 to $199 on an...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Case managers assigned to hospitalists may find that their jobs have become a little easier. Unlike...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
A March 12 New England Journal of Medicine article confirms what we already know: The hospitalist...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
In this issue of MSB, you’ll learn about the state of medical licensure, how to train medical...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 21, May 22, 2009
The Hospitalist, a Society of Hospital Medicine publication, interviewed Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 21, May 22, 2009
Despite initial reports that the cost of implementing suggested resident work hour changes from the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 21, May 22, 2009
Organizational “fit” and “family” considerations are the two most important...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 21, May 22, 2009
Just a reminder that you can still register for Thursday’s Webcast, Surgical Hospitalist...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 20, May 19, 2009
According to the survey of 2,300 medical practices in the greater Philadelphia area, the overall...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 20, May 19, 2009
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) 2009 Annual Meeting wrapped up on Sunday in Chicago. The SHM...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 20, May 19, 2009
A crisis in access to emergency surgical care has emerged during the past decade, according to John...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 19, May 12, 2009
Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-WV), Sheldon White (D-RI), and Congresswoman Diana DeGette...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 19, May 12, 2009
The majority of hospitalist management groups (97%) work on quality initiatives (QI), but about...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 19, May 12, 2009
It’s important to set the stage with the question, but then get off the stage and let them...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 19, May 12, 2009
Recent conflicts between specialty and general hospitals is an issue that gets to the heart of the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 19, May 12, 2009
Like many of you, HCPro and HospitalistLeadership.com will be attending the Annual Society of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 18, May 5, 2009
In case you missed this—and apparently many practices did—the new rule shortens the...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
As lenders tighten their belts, hospitals are finding it more difficult to secure the funding they...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 17, April 28, 2009
With the economic downturn, more Americans are forgoing inpatient and elective services and seeking...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 17, April 28, 2009
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) recently released its 2009 report, “Medical...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 17, April 28, 2009
There are options designed to ease your scheduling pain, including traditional, block, and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 17, April 28, 2009
If you are interested in how another surgical hospitalist program might compare or need data to...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 17, April 28, 2009
HCPro wants to deliver the most important information in the best format for you. Please take a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 16, April 21, 2009
The American Hospital Association (AHA) on Monday released a statement to the Accreditation Council...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 16, April 21, 2009
As a recruitment incentive, most medical groups (96%) stated they offer relocation assistance for...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 16, April 21, 2009
Time must be allocated to complete teaching responsibilities, which may include preparing lectures...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 15, April 14, 2009
President Barak Obama last week declared an executive order, announcing the White House Office of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 15, April 14, 2009
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Monday announced 14 community locations...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 15, April 14, 2009
“Will the federal EMR really reduce healthcare costs?” At least one physician thinks...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 15, April 14, 2009
Effective hospitalist leaders must balance their clinical responsibilities with their...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 14, April 7, 2009
“Hospitals are struggling to make ends meet, [and] more than half in the red,&rdquo...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 14, April 7, 2009
The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the total number or PA positions will...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 14, April 7, 2009
Only 1.5% of U.S. hospitals have a comprehensive electronic records systems in all clinical units...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 14, April 7, 2009
The “medical village” has huge implications for hospitalists (and every physician who...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
According to a brief of its December 2008 report, Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
If you've been waiting patiently for one of the major certifying boards to formally recognize...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 13, March 31, 2009
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) last Thursday announced new requirements for...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 13, March 31, 2009
More than 90% of trauma patients should be admitted by a trauma surgeon in accordance with...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 13, March 31, 2009
Neurology hospitalists, called neurohospitalists, are on the rise, according to a new study...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 13, March 31, 2009
A new study provides what authors call the “most comprehensive information” on...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 13, March 31, 2009
If you are managing a hospitalist program, or are otherwise interested in the business of medicine...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 12, March 24, 2009
What is a better method of sign-out communication—a conversation about the transfer of a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 12, March 24, 2009
Among all survey respondents, 66% of the AMGA medical group members confirmed that they poll their...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 11, March 17, 2009
The recent Stimulus Package includes $1.1 billion for “comparative effectiveness...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 11, March 17, 2009
Hospitalists improve patient outcomes, quality, and cost reduction, according to a study by the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 11, March 17, 2009
A new study confirms what many have suspected for a long time; the number of hospitalists is on the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 11, March 17, 2009
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) recently posted a retraction of its Jan. 14th message to SHM...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 10, March 10, 2009
Medical organizations are increasing the number of advanced practitioners (PAs, NPs, and certified...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 10, March 10, 2009
The seven-on/seven-off schedule holds a strange fascination for hospitalists, especially those who...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 10, March 10, 2009
Physicians say that for every six patients they see, one is difficult, according to a new study...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 9, March 3, 2009
Medical organizations are increasing the number of advanced practitioners (PAs, NPs, and certified...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 9, March 3, 2009
Mortality rates were significantly lower on the hospitalist-PA service compared to the resident...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 8, February 24, 2009
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) approved changes for internal...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 8, February 24, 2009
ABPS is a multi-specialty physician board with 3,800 current members and was established in 1950...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 7, February 17, 2009
President Barack Obama signed the economic stimulus bill into law on Tuesday, estimated at $787...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 7, February 17, 2009
Kirk Mathews, CEO, principal, and founder of Inpatient Management Inc., in St. Louis, talks about...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 7, February 17, 2009
Are you interested in sharing your strategies for tackling contemporary medical staff challenges...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 6, February 10, 2009
Organizing this extracurricular activity can be very time consuming, but you can streamline your...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 6, February 10, 2009
Although some have predicted that the hospitalist movement trend will lead to the death of the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 5, February 4, 2009
The American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS) recently announced the new American Board of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 5, February 3, 2009
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) issued a warning in October, cautioning against...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 5, February 3, 2009
Researchers studied more than 167,000 patients admitted to urban Texas hospitals between 2005 and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 5, February 3, 2009
The hospitalist office acts as a “coordination center” for the hospitalists&rsquo...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 2, February 1, 2009
HLA spoke with Adam Singer, MD, CEO of IPC The Hospitalist Company and Modern Healthcare's 2008...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 4, January 27, 2009
The American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS) this month announced the new American Board of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 4, January 27, 2009
Nearly half of U.S. hospitals are postponing capital projects because of the economic crisis...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 4, January 27, 2009
Is there a C-suite position in your future? The medical director of a hospitalist program could be...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 4, January 27, 2009
HCPro and The Greeley Medical Staff Institute are currently looking for hospitalist program...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 3, January 20, 2009
Resident-staffed services have a higher unscheduled readmission rate compared to hospitalist...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 3, January 20, 2009
During the 1990s and early 2000s, continuity of care from home to hospital declined, according to a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 3, January 20, 2009
The World Health Organization (WHO) last week released a safe surgery checklist that can reduce...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 2, January 13, 2009
Four out of five large hospitals utilize hospitalists, that is, 83% of hospitals with 200 or more...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 2, January 13, 2009
Find a sample pro forma and total costs of a hospital with a orthopedic, OB, and general surgery...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 1, January 6, 2009
Interviewing candidates involves breaking the ice. Create an event where the candidate can be...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 1, January 6, 2009
Although you want to get to know your candidate at the interview, some questions should be taboo to...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 1, January 6, 2009
Can the physician write the ICD-9 in the progress notes?
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
To fend off the ongoing physician shortage, many academic medical centers are recruiting from their...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 52, December 23, 2008
HCPro spoke with Adam Singer, MD, CEO of IPC The Hospitalist Company and Modern Healthcare’s...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 52, December 23, 2008
An EMR can facilitate daily communication between the hospitalist and the primary care physician...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 51, December 23, 2008
Pay-for-performance programs should not simply reward physicians individually but reward them for...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 51, December 23, 2008
The best hospitalist programs adopt a balanced approach to performance measurement that don’t...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 50, December 16, 2008
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) proposed revisions to medical residents sleep hours to reduce...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 50, December 16, 2008
An off-service note should be generated at the time a new hospitalist attending physician assumes...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 49, December 9, 2008
Programs that utilize active bed management by hospitalists can speed up ED throughput and reduce...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 49, December 9, 2008
Hospitalists are well positioned to take the lead in emerging palliative programs, according to an...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 48, December 2, 2008
Quality bonus plans tend to be more subjective than productivity-based bonus plans and therefore...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 48, December 2, 2008
In a recent study, researchers found that third-year medical students better identified delirium in...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 48, December 2, 2008
Welcome to the redesigned issue of Hospitalist Leadership Connection, the new name for Hospitalist...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
According to The Joint Commission, communication breakdowns are the most common cause of medical...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
The air is crisp, department stores are decked in lights, and requests for time off pile up like...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 47, November 25, 2008
Next week, our Hospitalist Program Weekly e-newsletter will sport a new title, Hospitalist...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 47, November 25, 2008
One question regarding your hospitalist program structure to ask is, “Are you maximizing your...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 46, November 18, 2008
As the first research to link job design (education, consulting, healthcare) to outcomes, the study...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 46, November 18, 2008
SHM recommends that physicians receive Medicare reimbursement for the time they dedicate to...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 46, November 18, 2008
The purpose of creating a hospitalist performance committee is to improve quality, efficiency, and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 45, November 11, 2008
“The emergency room has become the primary care physician after 5 p.m. for much of the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 45, November 11, 2008
To ensure patient safety and continuity of care, hospitalists must not only establish strong...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 44, November 4, 2008
Currently, only half of consultants’ medical recommendations are translated into actual care...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 44, November 4, 2008
Some hospitalists programs are turning to electronic means of communication: Web logs, patient...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 43, October 28, 2008
In academic centers, two types of services offer a similar quality and efficiency of patient care...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 43, October 28, 2008
Do you have a business plan with expected return on investment? To plug those numbers into your...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 4, October 21, 2008
As the ranks of hospital medicine continue to swell, the need for leadership development is...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 41, October 14, 2008
A staff-only general pediatric hospitalist service can decrease costs and reduce length of stay...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 41, October 14, 2008
The University of Chicago Curriculum for the Hospitalized Aging Medical Patient (CHAMP) announced a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 41, October 14, 2008
Hospitalists programs should implement mentoring programs with the overall goal of retention...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 40, October 7, 2008
The success of the practitioners’ partnership comes from the careful planning and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 39, September 30, 2008
What issues are most important to you? How do you like to get your hospitalist-related news? Have...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 39, September 30, 2008
Free-standing psychiatric hospitals and accredited hospitals with acute inpatient psychiatric units...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 38, September 24, 2008
In addition to a mentoring program and feedback forum, there are other strategies that can help...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 38, September 23, 2008
The interview is where the recruitment game is won or lost. Remember to follow these tips when you...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 38, September 23, 2008
Despite updated regulations by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that call for...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 37, September 17, 2008
Understanding the role hospitalists play in your organization will help you develop a stronger...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 37, September 16, 2008
Internet debate erupted this summer among industry experts involved in inpatient medicine...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 37, September 16, 2008
As hospitals deal with patients’ end-of-life decisions, hospitalists tend to abide by state...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 37, September 16, 2008
Selecting a billing service is the key step to building your billing process. If your hospitalist...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 36, September 9, 2008
With the long-term goal of employee retention in mind, hospitals can implement a collaborative...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 36, September 9, 2008
A recent study by the Pediatric Research in Inpatient Settings, an organization that touts quality...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 36, September 9, 2008
Cape Cod Hospital will keep on 19 fulltime hospitalists, thanks to a new agreement reached last...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 35, September 2, 2008
Because some programs fail to recognize the importance of specialists in clinical research in...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 35, September 2, 2008
To pitch your program-growth ideas to hospital administrators, offer documented information on the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 35, September 2, 2008
With agencies such as the Joint Commission (formerly known as JCAHO) recommending that hospitals...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 31, August 5, 2008
Watch a three-minute video of Martin Buser, MPH, FACHE, founding partner of Hospitalist Management...