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WEBSep 3, 2024 · Banner Health, a Top 5 Large Health System and one of the country's premier non-profit health care networks, is seeking an Acute Care Nurse Practi... 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 assistants, nurse ...
Hospitalists as Disruptors in Healthcare - The Hospitalist
WEBMay 1, 2024 · According to the Oxford Dictionary, disruptive is, “causing radical change in an existing industry or market through being innovative.”. Healthcare disruptors are hospitalists who are shifting the healthcare industry by making big changes that significantly define the way care is delivered. That means integrating new technologies ...
Step-by-Step Medicine - The Hospitalist
WEBJan 1, 2010 · Step-by-Step Medicine. Evidence-based practice guidelines are key tools to help hospitalists practice high-quality medicine and demonstrate the value of their inpatient care model. Guidelines are designed to produce superior care outcomes and resource utilization efficiencies by encouraging proven medical practices and discouraging ineffective ...
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.
Bringing Acute-Level Care to the Patient: Key Steps for Hospital at ...
WEBAug 1, 2022 · The basic concept of hospital at home is to provide hospital-level, acute medical care to patients with acute medical needs, but to do so in their residences, with needed services—such as clinicians, nurses, medical equipment, radiology, labs, oxygen, pharmacy—delivered, in person or virtually, directly to the patient’s home.
The hospitalist as intensivist
WEBMay 21, 2018 · Synopsis: This study includes 425 responses, approximately 10% of those solicited. Compared with the annual SHM survey, this included more hospitalists from academic hospitals (24% vs. 14.8%) and fewer from nonteaching hospitals (41% vs. 58.7%). A total of 77% of responders provide care in the ICU, with 66% serving as the attending physician.
Learning the ICU - The Hospitalist
WEBJun 15, 2020 · Learning the ICU. By. Larry Beresford. June 15, 2020. Although deployment of hospitalists into ICUs during the COVID-19 crisis varies widely, in that sense it reflects the pre-COVID hospital landscape of variable involvement, in which many hospitalists pressed into this role expressed discomfort practicing critical care beyond their scope of ...
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 ...
Eight things hospitalists need to know about post-acute care
WEBJan 20, 2017 · Here’s a compilation of their top eight must-knows. 1. PAC settings rely more on mid-level medical staff than hospitals do. PAC facilities employ more mid-level providers, such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, because they can support the level of medical complexity and decision making 95% of the time, says James D. Tollman ...
The ever-evolving scope of hospitalists’ clinical services
WEBFebruary 26, 2019. The 2018 State of Hospital Medicine (SoHM) Report provides indispensable data about the scope of clinical services routinely provided by adult and pediatric hospitalists. This year’s SoHM report reveals that a growing number of Hospital Medicine Groups (HMGs) serving adults are involved in …
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