Hospitals are turning toward hospitalists to help them address physician shortages and ever-growing patient volumes in the inpatient setting. In fact, in 2012, hospitalists were found to be the second ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the title “hospitalist,” or physicians whose work centers around a location of care — the hospital — rather than a disease, patient type or organ. Here are 10 ...

More and more medical centers are relying on hospitalists -- hospital-based internal medicine specialists who coordinate the complex care of inpatients. Now, an 18-month study comparing two ...

The role of the hospitalist is alluring to physicians and hospitals and its growth is well established. But cultural and recruiting challenges remain. The hospital-only specialty, which originated in ...

Hospitalist programs have been used as a way to more efficiently deliver healthcare in the hospital setting for decades now. But the way an organization deploys personnel in a hospitalist program can ...

Physician social network Doximity has entered into a partnership with the Society of Hospital Medicine to improve communications for care coordination and boost the profile of hospitalists. Doximity, ...

Hospitalists serve a unique role in patient care. Rather than focus on a specific organ system or disease, hospitalists specialize in the comprehensive care of hospitalized patients. They see patients ...

Q: What is a hospitalist? A: If you or a family member wind up spending time in a hospital as an inpatient these days, it’s likely you will come in contact with a hospitalist — a board-certified ...

Every evening, nurse practitioner (NP) Arnold Facklam arrives at South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta, Georgia, an hour before his two physician counterparts. As an NP nocturnist, a hospitalist ...

Hospitalists play a critical role in QI and patient safety in hospitals, focusing on incremental improvements and transparent ...

In 1996, the term “hospitalist” was coined in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that described the growing medical specialty of doctors and other healthcare professionals devoted to ...

Jasmin M. Baleva, M.D., and David Bowman, M.D., Selected in the Top Ten by the American College of Physicians Dr. Baleva, IPC’s Practice Group Leader at Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center ...