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| Hospitalist Management Advisor |
| May 2008 |
| Strategic planning is essential to keep your hospitalist program on the cutting edge |
| When hospitalist programs started popping up around the country back in the mid-1990s, the thought was that they would make hospitals more efficient by always having on-site physicians who could attend to patients and intimately understand the hospital's processes.
But as hospitalist programs mature, they need to be more than a service that fills in for private practice physicians, says Sylvia Cheney McKean, MD, FACP, medical director of Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospitalist Service in Boston. |
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