Hospitalists are internal medicine doctors, pediatricians and obstetricians who manage the care of patients admitted into a hospital. Primary care physicians usually only see patients outside the ...

Some smaller or cash-strapped hospitals that are struggling under the industry’s ongoing physician shortage are turning to nurse practitioners to fill in the gaps as hospitalists. Rusk County Memorial ...

Under normal hospital operations, patient flow is relatively steady and predictable. Hospitalists have balanced census loads; ED admissions arrive at a manageable pace; and there is adequate time for ...

Philip Vaidyan, MD, director of hospital medicine in the department of internal medicine at St. Mary’s Health Center in St. Louis and practice group leader with IPC The Hospitalist Company, shares ...

BRAINERD, Minn. — Chances are if you have ever been checked into a hospital for medical care you’ve been treated by a hospitalist. Most hospital patients know little, if anything, about one of the ...

The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, marked the 8th annual meeting of a society that has grown to nearly 5000 members. There are now approximately 12,000 ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

It’s never been easy to get through to hospitalists, the in-house physicians who oversee care for hospitalized patients. But as COVID-19 cases surge anew, these specialists find themselves swamped, ...

This article appears in the April 2013 issue of HealthLeaders magazine. Years ago, doctors would make rounds to supervise care for dozens of hospitalized patients. Now physicians often want to ...