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Experts Suggest Ways to Deal with Challenges Surrounding Care of Psychiatric Patients
March 16, 2016
In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed for every 300 Americans.
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Team Hospitalist Seats 8 Members
February 21, 2016
Eight hospitalists have joined Team Hospitalist, the only reader involvement group of its kind in hospital medicine. Each of the new members has experience in the practice of HM; many offer specialized backgrounds in pediatrics, academics, quality and patient safety, and group administration.
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Six Strategies to Help Hospitalists Improve Communication
February 8, 2016
As Karen Smith, MD, SFHM, chief of hospital medicine at Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C., sees it, communication problems often arise at the first possible opportunity, when she’s trying to find out whom to call when she needs to inform a primary care physician or specialist abo
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Strategies for Success in Risk-Based Payment Models
February 2, 2016
Risk-based payment models are becoming increasingly common in healthcare.
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How Veterans Affairs Healthcare Services Are Like Accountable Care Organizations
October 6, 2015
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an accountable care organization (ACO) is defined as a “group of doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers, who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to their Medicare patients.” The goal of an ACO is “to
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Hospitalists Key Partners in Healthcare’s Future, Evolution
October 5, 2015
After a career working for hospitals, I am about to retire as president and CEO of the American Hospital Association (AHA), an organization that represents some 5,000 hospitals and health systems.
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Technology Allows Independent Living for Elderly
October 2, 2015
NEW YORK - Shari Cayle, 75, called "Miracle Mama" by her family ever since she beat back advanced colon cancer seven years ago, is still undergoing treatment and living alone.
"I don't want my grandchildren to remember me as the sick one, I want to be the fun one," said Cayle, who is testing a de
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Opinion
Bundled Payment and Hospital Medicine, Pt. 2
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
June 8, 2015
Editor’s note: Second in a two-part series examining bundled payments and hospital medicine. In full disclosure, Dr.
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Movers and Shakers in Hospital Medicine, June 2015
May 31, 2015
[caption id="attachment_9750" align="alignleft" width="66"] Dr. Bugger[/caption]
Tammy Bugger, hospitalist practice administrator at Alton Memorial Hospital (AMH) in Alton, Ill., was awarded Manager of the Year for Illinois by BJC Medical Group.
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Continuity Visits by Primary Care Physicians Could Benefit Inpatients
April 3, 2015
[caption id="attachment_8732" align="alignright" width="295"] Internist Gila Kriegel, MD, says most PCPs “likeseeing their patients through the course ofthe illness.”[/caption]
Hospital medicine leaders have long acknowledged the disconnects in medical care that occur at discharge.