Medical Staff Articles by Topic: Hospitalists
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 32, August 18, 2011
Check out this week's feature blog post that looks at hospitalist compensation by Richard Rohr, MD...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 31, August 3, 2011
In the employment model, the hospital or a hospital-owned group practice employs the surgeons...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 31, August 3, 2011
A new study found that although patients cared for by hospitalists often have shorter lengths of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 29, July 27, 2011
The following is a step-by-step guide for lining up interviews with hospitalist candidates.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 29, July 27, 2011
The number of hospitalists in the US is growing, but are they really satisfied with their jobs? The...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 28, July 20, 2011
Billing for a medical practice requires the collection and submission of many specific items in a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 28, July 13, 2011
When talking to a reference contact, the employer should describe the practice or specific elements...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 28, July 13, 2011
As the number of hospitalists increase so does the number of patients under their care. As such...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 27, July 6, 2011
Hospitals are targeting primary care physicians for positions as employed physicians of hospitals...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 26, June 29, 2011
Although the ACGME’s new Common Program Requirements will cut shift lengths for first year...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 26, June 29, 2011
Staff at hospitals that choose active surveillance and patient isolation to prevent bug...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 26, June 29, 2011
Patients with diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or congestive heart failure who...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 25, June 22, 2011
When given the option of pushing a “panic button,” patients are more likely to underuse...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 25, June 22, 2011
The national median annual salary for internal medicine physicians treating adult patients rose...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 24, June 15, 2011
More hospitals are employing nocturnists to counter “the weekend effect,” a worrisome...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 24, June 15, 2011
When the ACGME released its new Common Program Requirements, many balked at the estimated cost of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 24, June 15, 2011
The best time for physicians to start drafting a discharge plan for diabetic patients is when...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 23, June 8, 2011
A report from the National Blood Clot Alliance indicates that most patients don’t know what...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 23, June 8, 2011
Abraham Awwad, MD, a nephrologist at Northside Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL, has filed a formal...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 23, June 8, 2011
In the June issue of June Journal of the American Colleges of Surgeons, researchers found that...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 23, June 8, 2011
Assigning a nurse as the clinical manager or leader of care and including in-person home visits to...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 22, May 31, 2011
The long lists of potential side effects that accompany every drug can cause physicians to feel...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 22, May 31, 2011
Robert M. Wachter, MD, professor and associate chair of the Department of Medicine at the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 22, May 31, 2011
Hospitalists may want to consider a new hobby: writing apps for smartphones. Take William Johnston...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 21, May 25, 2011
Telemedicine may be just what the doctor ordered. The use of eICUs at UMass Memorial Medical Center...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 21, May 25, 2011
Thirty to forty percent of physicians experience burnout during their careers, often related to...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 21, May 25, 2011
Patients who are admitted to the hospital during a weekend are more likely to die than patients who...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 20, May 18, 2011
Eric Howell, MD, SFHM, associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University and director of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 20, May 18, 2011
We all anxiously, and many hopefully, waited and watched as the CMS proposed rules for the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 20, May 18, 2011
The Society of Hospital Medicine and Press Ganey have together created a tool for measuring...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 19, May 11, 2011
Total compensation costs for hospital employees rose 0.5% in the first quarter of 2011, slightly...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 19, May 11, 2011
According to a UPI article, a new emerging specialty is needed to tend to chronically ill...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 19, May 11, 2011
My last two posts have dealt with the analogy between hospitalist program managers and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 18, May 3, 2011
Academic hospitalists are increasingly burned out with less time dedicated to academic work.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 18, May 3, 2011
A hospitalist program leader has a responsibility to establish the culture of the organization and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 18, May 3, 2011
Measuring patient satisfaction is easier said than done. Keep in mind that external factors beyond...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 17, April 26, 2011
Cogent Healthcare and Hospitalists Management Group announced their merger to become the largest...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 17, April 26, 2011
Hospital [m]edicine groups and hospital medical staffs should jointly determine the point at which...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 17, April 26, 2011
A hospitalist service might incorporate the hospitalist report card into quarterly reports...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 16, April 19, 2011
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) last week launched a national collaboration...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 16, April 19, 2011
New York has the highest number (46%) of chronically ill patients in the hospital at the time of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 16, April 19, 2011
About one-third of hospitals are not prepared for mass-casualty disasters, according to a report...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 15, April 12, 2011
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) recently released a free white paper with a Hospital...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 15, April 12, 2011
After interviewing a candidate, be prepared to make a decision on that candidate.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 14, April 5, 2011
During admission, the hospitalist must gather pertinent information and coordinate the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 14, April 5, 2011
My last post introduced the idea that hospitalist medical directors are in the position of an...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 13, March 29, 2011
Press Ganey reported that facilities with hospitalists may lead to better patient satisfaction...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 13, March 29, 2011
Although first-year academic hospitalist faculty may be skilled clinically, they might not be when...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 12, March 22, 2011
Homeless patients often have longer length of stay, resulting in higher hospital costs, according...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 12, March 22, 2011
Making up the largest share (31%) of U.S. healthcare spending, hospital charges totaled $1.2...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 12, March 22, 2011
A crisis management team may be activated to deal with a multitude of problems, such as an abused...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 12, March 22, 2011
Proponents argue that ACOs will provide and manage care across the continuum of care settings...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 11, March 15, 2011
Researchers found that implementing a hospitalist-neurosurgery comanagement service does not...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 11, March 15, 2011
John Nelson, MD, MHM, names eight identifiable qualities of a high-functioning practice.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 11, March 15, 2011
Becker’s Hospital Review announced its list of “America’s 50 Best Hospitals."
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 11, March 15, 2011
Patients who received palliative care on average incurred $6,900 less in hospital costs per...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 11, March 15, 2011
Smoking is associated with significant healthcare costs and is a leading cause of preventable...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 10, March 9, 2011
Republicans may be washing pharmacy and retail store shelves of anti-microbial soaps because of the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 10, March 9, 2011
In the March 2 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, authors Simon C. Mathews...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 9, March 1, 2011
Ideally, performance feedback should be a positive experience that brings out the best in both the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 9, March 1, 2011
The swamp contains all the things that prevent hospital care from being...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 8, February 24, 2011
A recent letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association delves into what, exactly...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 8, February 24, 2011
Those first few days and weeks are critical, so it’s important to plan your orientation such...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 8, February 22, 2011
After an eight-hour work day, a freshly laundered white coat has the same amount of bacteria as a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 8, February 22, 2011
A recruiting firm is only as good as the individual recruiter assigned to the specific search.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 8, February 22, 2011
Hospitalists anticipate, appreciate, and respond to recognition of their positive performance.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 7, February 14, 2011
Back problems accounted for approximately 663,000 inpatient stays in the U.S. in 2008, according a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 7, February 14, 2011
The American Hospital Association this month released “Health Care Leader Action Guide...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 7, February 14, 2011
As hospitalists continue to see steady increases in their compensation, hospital CFOs need to...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 6, February 8, 2011
Like a baseball team banking on a designated hitter, many healthcare organizations are looking to...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 6, February 8, 2011
The hospitalist program should research how many unassigned patients are admitted through the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 6, February 8, 2011
Using data hospital sources is the first step in generating a report card for a hospitalist service.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 5, February 1, 2011
Despite the old economic principal that competition of services helps reduce the cost of those...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 5, February 1, 2011
CMS has released educational guidance to assist hospitals regarding inpatient admission decisions.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 5, February 1, 2011
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host an “open door forum” to...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 5, February 1, 2011
As value-based purchasing approaches, hospitalists are going to feel the heat from hospital...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 4, January 25, 2011
Hospitalist group leaders’ biggest concerns were about adequate hospitalist mentorship and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 4, January 25, 2011
Carefully select a mentor for each new hospitalist; that person will help determine the overall...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 3, January 18, 2011
Practice management companies continue to acquire hospitals and other hospitalist facilities.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 3, January 18, 2011
To gain the most out of this interview, consider conducting a behavior-based interview to...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 3, January 18, 2011
As with other hospitalist programs, a precise return on investment (ROI) is difficult to capture...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 2, January 11, 2011
To help us better serve you in the future, please check the box that best describes how you feel...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 2, January 11, 2011
Share your story idea with HCPro, Inc., by e-mailing Associate Editor Karen M. Cheung at...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 1, January 4, 2011
A new survey confirms the well-known compensation difference that rural hospitalists earn more...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 1, January 4, 2011
Be sure to provide professional liability and malpractice insurance to protect hospitalists in...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 1, January 4, 2011
Because hospital quality programs traditionally focus on negative feedback, physicians don’t...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 1, January 4, 2011
January is the month of looking forward and looking back. It is also a good time to review the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 52, December 28, 2010
Comanagement between hospitalist and neurosurgeons can reduce hospitals costs, according to a new...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 52, December 28, 2010
The following are possible questions to include in your own survey that specifically focus on...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 52, December 28, 2010
We’ve compiled the top 10 news stories and tools of 2010 on the MedicalStaffLeader.com blog.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 51, December 14, 2010
Find a sample letter to referring providers/primary care physicians/ specialists in the community...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 51, December 14, 2010
Surgery differs critically in one regard—the activity in the operating room (OR).
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 51, December 14, 2010
Would you hire a physician who posted questionable photos or comments relating to his or her...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 50, December 14, 2010
There is no one-size-fits-all formula when it comes to bonus compensation.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 50, December 14, 2010
Find here a sample form for surveying patients who have recently been under the care of a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 50, December 14, 2010
The results revealed that harm remains common, with little evidence of widespread improvement.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 49, December 6, 2010
The Joint Commission last month issued a Sentinel Event Alert warning hospitals that patients who...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 49, December 6, 2010
As the year winds down, it’s important to remember to take care of yourself, especially if...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 49, December 6, 2010
Half of the state legislatures are now under Republican control, so there will be little progress...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2010
If your hospital had its own baseball league, would hospitalists and referring practitioners play...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 48, November 30, 2010
A new study finds that hospitalist attending physicians do not discuss code status, such as CPR...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 48, November 30, 2010
It is recommended that even for small programs, the hospital should commit to hiring a minimum of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 48, November 30, 2010
Because physicians are charged with communicating with parties outside the hospital walls...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 48, November 30, 2010
Remember that you can find all the past issues of this e-newsletter online.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 47, November 17, 2010
A hospitalist not employed by a hospital sees an average of 19% more patients than his or her...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 47, November 17, 2010
The primary reasons to undertake performance measurement are to determine whether the program is...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 47, November 17, 2010
As part of his or her preinterview assessments, the candidate should supply education and training...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 47, November 17, 2010
To continually offer you the best information, we’d like your opinion.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 46, November 16, 2010
You can judge a proposed compensation plan based on the following questions.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 46, November 16, 2010
Tailoring the orientation style or duration to an individual hospitalist’s needs is good...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 46, November 16, 2010
Download a sample impaired physician policy on MedicalStaffLeader.com.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 45, November 9, 2010
The nearly 700 physicians who treat adults reported a mean compensation of $214,075, up only 1.81...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 45, November 9, 2010
When physicians stop providing inpatient care (as delineated by inpatient privileges), hospitals...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 45, November 9, 2010
Hospitalists have gotten lots of publicity over the years, and the name is usually spelled...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 44, November 2, 2010
A consult is not a referral. There is a big difference between the two terms, and it is reflected...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 44, November 2, 2010
Attending physicians can take an active role in instilling ethics into the student setting...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 44, November 2, 2010
After declining hospitalizations from 1980 to 1995, the hospitalization rate has stabilized from...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 43, October 26, 2010
Under the Joint Commission’s Center for Transforming Healthcare, the Hand-off Communications...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 43, October 26, 2010
Collaboration between in-house and outside hospital physicians doesn’t just happen; it must...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 43, October 26, 2010
Build relationships with nearby residency programs with the target goal of reaching current and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 43, October 26, 2010
Take the poll and see what your peers have to say on MedicalStaffLeader.com.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 42, October 19, 2010
Hospitalists who expand their role as extensivists can reduce readmissions and lower length of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 42, October 19, 2010
Hospitalist programs develop a performance scorecard with the overall goal of monitoring and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 41, October 12, 2010
The time between the inpatient and outpatient setting is usually a high-risk period for patients...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 41, October 12, 2010
Patient education, family involvement in the discharge process, and follow-up appointments can...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 41, October 12, 2010
The summit syndrome, or the “paradox of experience and expertise,” refers to a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 41, October 12, 2010
The Medical Staff Leader Blog caught up with John Maa, MD, FACS, surgical hospitalist and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 40, October 5, 2010
Some hospitalist programs require primary care physicians or referring providers (e.g., outpatient...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 39, October 5, 2010
Some hospital medicine groups find that direct admissions work well for them and are an excellent...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2010
When St. Louis–based St. Mary’s Health Center implemented a hospitalist program in...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 39, September 27, 2010
Hospitals are improving the quality of care in heart attack, pneumonia, surgery, and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 39, September 27, 2010
In the Medicare population, complicated, nonsurgical patients in community hospitals had the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 39, September 27, 2010
Hospitalized older patients of out-of-the-loop primary care physicians often experience...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 39, September 27, 2010
Although this shift is great for physicians who would rather focus their practices in the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 28, September 21, 2010
Streamline the admission process and reduce the amount of time your hospitalists spend chasing down...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 38, September 21, 2010
A: A hospitalist employment agreement should include a section titled “Physician’s...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 38, September 21, 2010
Scheduling a night shift surgeon who has no responsibility the day before or after the night shift...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 37, September 14, 2010
Hospitalists who receive lower base salaries are more productive and ultimately receive higher...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 37, September 14, 2010
A: Currently, the most common method of compensating hospitalists is by combining fixed and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 37, September 14, 2010
Full-team meetings should be held monthly and usually should include administration, physicians...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 36, September 7, 2010
The Handoff Selective project is aimed at teaching a structured process, using written and verbal...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 36, September 7, 2010
Communication at the time of a patient’s discharge can be accomplished several ways.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 36, September 7, 2010
Incentives are proliferating in hospital medicine and most are based on compliance with various...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2010
Although some hospitalist programs have embraced unit-based patient care delivery methods (known...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 9, September 1, 2010
Although hospitalists are well aware of their programs’ resource utilization and case...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 35, August 31, 2010
Hospitalists spend more time documenting and reviewing electronic medical records than directly...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 35, August 31, 2010
Fragmented hospitalist care can lead to longer patient hospital stays.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 35, August 31, 2010
A phone conversation is likely a better gauge for evaluation than words on paper.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 35, August 31, 2010
The urgency for reach out to these young recruits is high, and the channels with which to reach...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 34, August 24, 2010
Many hospitals may be deciding to start a new hospitalist program, transition from a day program...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 34, August 24, 2010
A new study indicates that hospitalist-run observation or short-stay units can reduce patient...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 34, August 24, 2010
Hospitalists aren’t adequately documenting patient obesity, according to a recent study...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 34, August 24, 2010
Some physicians might avoid talking with their patients about the sensitive subject of code...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 33, August 17, 2010
Physician compensation planning requires a process that ensures that physicians drive positive...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 33, August 17, 2010
If your hospitalist program chooses to enlist the services of a nurse director, keep this chart...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 32, August 11, 2010
A hospitalist program can be cost-effective at public teaching hospitals, according to a new study.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 32, August 11, 2010
Answering this question will help physician leaders determine whether the administration...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 32, August 11, 2010
To determine a hospitalist’s base salary, hospitalist program managers, medical directors...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 32, August 4, 2010
As hospital medicine continues to grow and demonstrate a positive impact on the nation’s...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 31, August 3, 2010
Determining proper base salary takes into account location, other physicians’ pay, and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 31, August 3, 2010
Hospital medicine differs from other medical specialties in that it is not concerned with an organ...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 31, August 3, 2010
As health reform is being implemented, many wonder what it will do to patient volume in the...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 8, August 1, 2010
Hospitalists have long been touted as the drivers of quality improvement initiatives, and one of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 30, July 27, 2010
Although hospitalists have been known to cut hospital costs, a new study finds that hospitalists...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 29, July 20, 2010
The majority of physicians have lost revenue due to Medicare’s elimination of consultation...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 30, July 20, 2010
Hospitalist programs must measure their performance regularly to gauge whether they are making any...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 29, July 20, 2010
A wise consultant once told me that the odds of filling a physician opening were significantly...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 28, July 13, 2010
Compared to employing hospitalists directly, outsourcing hospitalists can be financially and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 28, July 13, 2010
The average income offer to hospitalists was $208,000, and incomes varied between a low of $165,000...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 28, July 13, 2010
A physician that was referred by a recruiter looked like a reasonable candidate, except that he was...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 28, July 13, 2010
The checklist lists a variety of sample descriptive metrics for consideration when evaluating a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 27, July 6, 2010
The mean hospitalist salary is $225,344, according to the data from the SHM-MGMA 2010 annual report.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 27, July 6, 2010
Obstetrician/gynecologist hospitalists and laborists have a high rate of career satisfaction...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 27, July 6, 2010
For the individual practice, direct mail is not the most effective tool.
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Physicians know that if patients don’t disclose every medication or supplement they take...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Hospitalist program leaders and medical directors may wonder whether geographic (aka unit-based...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 26, June 29, 2010
The ACGME draft proposal includes not reducing the 80-hour work week, but it does update duty...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 26, June 29, 2010
The number of hospital-based palliative programs have more than doubled from fiscal year 2000 to...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 26, June 29, 2010
By taking emergency call at night, laborists enable nonhospital-based OB/GYNs to maintain a more...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 26, June 29, 2010
We need to remain engaged as the regulatory agencies seek public comment on the endless rules and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 25, June 22, 2010
A steady decrease in hours worked per week during the last decade was observed for all physicians...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 25, June 22, 2010
Does the patient’s condition require treatment or further evaluation that can only be...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 25, June 22, 2010
Does your hospitalist program performance dashboard include hospitalist-specific data or does it...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 25, June 22, 2010
The advent of Medicare’s value-based purchasing program next year is going to present...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 24, June 15, 2010
The American Health Association (AHA) senior vice president and Health Research & Educational...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 24, June 15, 2010
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) Public Policy Committee visited the offices of senators and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 24, June 15, 2010
Patients might prefer the hospitalist model over the continuity of care model, and thus produce...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 24, June 15, 2010
There are advantages and disadvantages of the primary modes of communication that hospitalists use...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 23, June 7, 2010
Medical groups cite hospitalist support as an important recruitment strategy, after financial...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 23, June 7, 2010
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the American Hospital Association’s Health...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Pressure continues to mount on hospitals to improve their patient satisfaction scores, particularly...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
For many hospitalist parents, one of the biggest factors that determines where?or whether?they work...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Medical Staff Briefing (MSB) provides the strategies and updated information medical staff leaders...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 22, June 1, 2010
Healthcare experts today view hospitalists as the leaders of reform, according to a New York Times...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 21, May 25, 2010
With the massive healthcare reform bill now the law of the land, everyone is asking the question...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 21, May 25, 2010
A sample referring physician satisfaction survey to customize.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 21, May 25, 2010
An effectively run observation unit must have clearly delineated policies and procedures.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 20, May 18, 2010
Forty-five percent of hospitalists report that they do not receive any paid time off.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 20, May 18, 2010
Answering this question will help you determine whether you are achieving your performance goals as...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 20, May 18, 2010
We have sold the hospitalist concept on the basis of decreased costs. What’s going on here?
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 19, May 11, 2010
The [name of hospitalist service] will use staffing patterns aimed at maximum use of provider...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 19, May 11, 2010
The explosive growth of hospital medicine has translated into enhanced hospital performance...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 19, May 11, 2010
Hospitalists have taken on increasingly stronger roles in medical staff leadership. Top performing...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 18, May 4, 2010
Patient whiteboards can improve communication among the healthcare team, providers, and patients...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 18, May 4, 2010
Patients are now asking questions and making more informed choices about where and with whom to...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 18, May 4, 2010
A users’ group serves as a forum for all involved parties to discuss clinical, operational...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Hospital leaders wouldn't think to ask a private practice physician to work in the hallway—an...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Medical Staff Briefing is a monthly newsletter for medical staff leaders and medical staff services...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 17, April 28, 2010
Looking to improve the physician-hospital relations at your institution? Attend this year’s...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 17, April 28, 2010
A single physician generates an average $1,543,788 a year in net revenue on behalf of his or her...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 17, April 28, 2010
A: As healthcare costs continue to rise in the U.S., hospitals, other healthcare facilities...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 16, April 20, 2010
The URL name will change from www.HospitalistLeadership.com to www.MedicalStaffLeader.com.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 16, April 20, 2010
The NHQR measures four categories of quality: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 15, April 13, 2010
The U.S. may not be ready for a healthcare system that is based on comparative effectiveness...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 15, April 13, 2010
Did you miss the Society of Hospital Medicine’s annual meeting this weekend? You can catch up...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 15, April 13, 2010
By passing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, the most significant piece of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 14, April 6, 2010
Despite arguments that the hospitalist movement has crowded out generalists, hospital utilization...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 14, April 6, 2010
Although more hospitalists are taking the helm as leaders of their institutions, not much data...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 14, April 6, 2010
They didn’t call it the “Hospitalist Full Employment Act,” but they could have.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 14, April 6, 2010
Surgical coverage options present advantages and disadvantages in terms of operations, physician...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Many hospitalists will tell you that one of the reasons they choose to practice hospital-based...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
As the number of intensivists dwindles and demand for their services rises, hospitalists are...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Medical Staff Briefing is a monthly newsletter for medical staff leaders and medical staff services...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, April 1, 2010
Many hospitalist programs managers—if they haven't already—will see an increase in...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 13, March 30, 2010
It’s not clear whether hospital medicine is detrimental to the patient-physician...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 13, March 30, 2010
Most readers reported they did not have appropriate space.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 13, March 30, 2010
No definite research data exists regarding the best way to compensate hospitalists, and as might be...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 13, March 30, 2010
Because hospitalists are the medical team leaders for episodes of acute care, their decisions help...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 12, March 23, 2010
General internal medicine physicians generated $1.6 million this year, according to a Merritt...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 12, March 23, 2010
The Joint Commission on Thursday announced that it approved the latest draft of the medical staff...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 12, March 23, 2010
Is your office space more like to a broom closet? Or does your institution provide ample space for...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 12, March 23, 2010
The Mayo Clinic Arizona announced the first PA program dedicated to hospital medicine, a 12-month...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 11, March 16, 2010
The United States spends twice as much per capita as other industrialized countries on healthcare...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 11, March 16, 2010
The problem was that the healthcare plan attempted to expand access at great cost in the face of a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 11, March 16, 2010
Nurse practitioners (NP) and physician assistants (PA) are physician extenders who function under...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 10, March 9, 2010
The average starting compensation for a hospitalist is $190,054 with a sign-on bonus of $17,714...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 10, March 9, 2010
Spiraling health care costs, advances in bio- and information technology, and the political will to...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 10, March 9, 2010
The hospitalist program policy and procedure manual should include the following operational issues.
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 9, March 4, 2010
In a recent article from Today’s Hospitalist, a concept emerges about a number of physicians...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 9, March 2, 2010
More hospitalists are comanaging surgery patients, according to a new study.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 9, March 2, 2010
Many contracts include a noncompete clause that prohibits a physician from working for a competitor...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
The hospitalist shortage has hospitalist program managers and medical directors everywhere...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Medical Staff Briefing is a monthly newsletter for medical staff leaders and medical staff services...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 8, February 23, 2010
“Extensivists” are physicians who are employed by health plans to increase...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 8, February 23, 2010
Sepsis and pneumonia costs hospitals thousands of dollars, according to a new study.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 8, February 23, 2010
A multidisciplinary care team model reduces the risk of death in the ICU, according to a study.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 8, February 23, 2010
We asked HospitalistLeadership.com readers how the television show, House, M.D., compares to their...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 7, February 18, 2010
At minimum, a referring provider expects the hospitalist to provide notification on admission of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 7, February 16, 2010
The University of Chicago made recommendations to improve hospitalist handoffs.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 7, February 16, 2010
Based on a study of more than 765,000 hospital patient deaths in 2007, a dying patient costs on...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 7, February 16, 2010
Mayo Clinic stated that it was the first program to offer a post-graduate PA specific to hospital...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 7, February 16, 2010
Hospitals, departments, and individual physicians should take steps to ensure patient safety and...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 7, February 16, 2010
In a February 3 HospitalistLeadership.com poll, “Has the number of critical care patients...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 6, February 9, 2010
One method of ensuring that a new hospitalist is receiving the assistance and feedback he or she...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 6, February 9, 2010
Here are 12 ways to improve communication with patients and with physicians in- and outside the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 6, February 9, 2010
What inspires us to work harder or more effectively?
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 6, February 9, 2010
Take the poll at HospitalistLeadership.com and see what your peers are saying.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 5, February 2, 2010
The Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine has developed the first hospitalist-specific physician...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 5, February 2, 2010
The CMS inpatient coding changes that took effect on January 1 have many hospitalist leaders...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 5, February 2, 2010
Candidates for the position of surgical hospitalist must be all general surgeons by training.
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
The hospitalist movement has changed the dynamics of leadership. Traditionally, physicians who had...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Medical Staff Briefing is a monthly newsletter for medical staff leaders and medical staff services...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 4, January 26, 2010
When talking to a reference contact, the employer should describe the practice or specific elements...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 4, January 26, 2010
When reviewing a billing service contract, keep an eye out for certain things.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 4, January 26, 2010
We are now seeing referrals from some of our larger client hospitals back to the CAH where...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 3, January 19, 2010
Hospitalists now manage patients daily who were previously managed by specialists.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 3, January 19, 2010
Hospitalist programs that are successful in keeping great hospitalists on staff are adept at...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 3, January 19, 2010
Hospitalist-intensivist collaboration will continue to grow in caring for critically ill patients...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 2, January 12, 2010
Hospital leaders, including CEOs, plan on sustaining current hospitalist staffing levels or expect...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 2, January 12, 2010
Surgical hospitalists include the following demographic groups younger surgeons interested in a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 2, January 12, 2010
Find a free, customizable seven-day on/seven-day off schedule online at...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 2, January 12, 2010
We are attacking the New Year with a spirit of improvement, but we need your help.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 1, January 5, 2010
One of the most important leadership qualities is what psychologist Daniel Goleman calls emotional...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 1, January 5, 2010
Instead of looking at daily patient encounters, some practices quantify the average amount of time...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 1, January 5, 2010
CMS has eliminated consultation billing for Medicare and Medicaid. It is the first step in...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
For many physicians, taking the time to perform a thorough and effective hand off is a chore they...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Medical Staff Briefing is a monthly newsletter for medical staff leaders and medical staff services...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 52, December 22, 2009
The year 2009 was also a milestone for hospital medicine. The American Board of Internal Medicine...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 52, December 22, 2009
In case you missed your favorite blogs post earlier this year, here is a list of the most read blog...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 52, December 22, 2009
You can find all the past issues on the online archives, dating back to 2006.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 52, December 22, 2009
What stories do you want to read? What topics are you most interested in?
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 51, December 21, 2009
It is clear that more hospital medicine programs are turning to NPs to supplement their practice in...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 51, December 21, 2009
How difficult is it to staff your hospitalist program during the holidays?
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 50, December 16, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 50, December 15, 2009
What should you look for in electronic charge capture software? When moving toward a...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 50, December 15, 2009
If you tell hospitalists what is expected of them, they will likely have a better understanding of...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 50, December 15, 2009
The Society of Hospitalist Medicine, the professional organization with more than 10,000 members...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 49, December 8, 2009
Growing hospitalist services coupled with fewer resident work hours can limit resident learning...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 49, December 8, 2009
Many programs are willing to extend firm offers to second-year residents, even though the...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 49, December 8, 2009
I was involved in a case recently that brought to mind some of the ways in which physicians cause...
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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 48, December 1, 2009
One question people often ask is, “Are we staffing appropriately?” Answering this...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 48, December 1, 2009
The majority of those surveyed will not pursue ABIM’s RFP.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 48, December 1, 2009
Ask questions that will allow you to understand and act on feedback.
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 47, November 24, 2009
A large part of a hospitalist’s job entails effective communication. When dealing with...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 47, November 24, 2009
One of the questions posed was regarding the effect of the proposed “bundled payments.&rdquo...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 47, November 24, 2009
Here are the results of last week’s poll of “What methods does your hospitalist program...
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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...