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WEBOct 1, 2024 · Hospitalist, Pediatric - 12369. Nemours Children’s Health, Jacksonville Fl is currently seeking a full-time clinical pediatric hospitalist to join our growing team. The Hospitalist is the monthly news magazine of the Society of Hospital Medicine, reporting on issues and trends in hospital medicine relevant to hospitalists, physician ...
The evolution of the hospitalist - The Hospitalist
WEBMar 30, 2022 · T he term hospitalist was coined in 1996 in a New England Journal of Medicine article written by Dr. Robert Wachter—often considered the father of the field. The need was clear: hospitals wanted a physician dedicated to the care of inpatients on a 24/7 basis. Hospitals and patients have benefited tremendously, and hospital medicine has become the fastest-growing medical specialty in U.S ...
Hospital at Home: Delivering hospital-level care without the …
WEBMay 25, 2021 · The United States spends one-third of the nation’s health dollars on hospital care, amounting to $1.2 trillion in 2018. 1 U.S. hospital beds are prevalent 2, and expensive to build and operate, with most hospital services costs related to buildings, equipment, salaried labor, and overhead. 3 Despite their mission to heal, hospitals can be harmful, especially for frail and elderly patients.
Bright Spots in the Future of Hospital Medicine
WEBMar 1, 2023 · As we celebrate 2023 National Hospitalist Day on March 2, taking a peek into the future of hospital medicine, we offer you brief accounts of some of the roles 10 hospitalists are playing to advance the field, helping better to define its range and extent, improve quality on multiple levels, and commit to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the care of hospitalized patients.
#HowWeHospitalist: A glimpse into six lives - The Hospitalist
WEBRobert Bell. February 16, 2022. They’ve been called heroes and godsends and walked out of work to applause from passersby. That respect and admiration was a balm to overworked hospitalists. Now many of the nation’s estimated 50,000 hospitalists would gladly pass on the attention and adoration for a return to normalcy. Normalcy.
The state of inpatient COVID-19 care - The Hospitalist
WEBJanuary 21, 2021. Evidence on emerging treatments for COVID-19 has been incomplete, often disappointing, and rapidly changing. The concept of a practice-changing press release is as novel as the coronavirus. The pandemic has created an interdependent set of inpatient challenges: keeping up with evolving science and operationalizing clinical ...
Managing the Long-term Physical Effects of Being a Hospitalist
WEBAug 1, 2024 · Managing the Long-term Physical Effects of Being a Hospitalist. By. Larry Beresford. August 1, 2024. Mark V. Williams, MD, FACP, MHM, age 64, has been a pioneer of hospital medicine, a physician leader, and a frontline clinician since helping to found the hospitalist program at Grady Hospital in Atlanta in 1998.
Bringing Acute-Level Care to the Patient: Key Steps for Hospital at ...
WEBAug 1, 2022 · Quality. Bringing Acute-Level Care to the Patient: Key Steps for Hospital at Home. As the hospital at home concept and care model gets more attention nationally, hospitalists often provide the leadership, clinical expertise, and labor needed to get these programs off the ground. Although the model’s regulatory and reimbursement foundations ...
What hospitalists need to know about COVID-19 - The Hospitalist
WEBFeb 28, 2020 · The disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 is named COVID-19. Until 2019, only six strains of human coronaviruses had previously been identified. Courtesy NIAID-RML. As of April 8, 2020, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19 has been detected in at least 209 countries and has …
Early Versus Later Anticoagulation for Stroke with Atrial Fibrillation
WEBOct 1, 2024 · Jevon Gegg-Mitchell, MS, RN, NP-C, PA-C. October 1, 2024. Mr. Gegg-Mitchell. Clinical question: What is the safety and efficacy of early compared with later initiation of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in patients with atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke? Background: There is a paucity of high-quality evidence regarding the timing of ...