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 ...

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 ...

Founded in 2006, Ob Hospitalist Group is a national physician group based in Mauldin, S.C., that develops, staffs and manages OB/GYN hospitalist programs in 28 states. Its network includes more than ...

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 ...

HILLTOWN, Pa., Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/-- Despite a slow economy and uncertainty about the future of health care reimbursements, hospitalists continue to see healthy increases in their ...

Objective: To compare initial and long-term hospital resourceutilization of hospitalists and general internists at an urban communityhospital. Study Design: A retrospective cohort analysis. Methods: ...

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 ...

Better discharge planning is within our reach, if we care to make the effort ...

The day may be coming when you have an office doctor and a hospital doctor. Hospitalists, doctors who exclusively care for hospitalized patients, work at most local hospitals. Lancaster General ...

The advantages to the hospitalist arrangement outweigh the disadvantages, according to Dr. Lowell Sensintaffar, a family physician in Shiloh. Hospital patients cared for by hospitalists have shorter ...

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 ...