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Being a Great Unit-Based Medical Director
- Justin Miller, MD, FACP, SFHM
July 1, 2026
This talk focused on the role of the unit-based medical director and the skills needed to be effective in this position. Although there are some similarities to other leadership positions, such as...
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News
Hospitalists and unit-based assignments
October 16, 2020
The push for geographic rounding comes from the need to achieve excellence in patient care and efficiency in work flow.
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News
Unit-based rounding in the real world
- Tresa Muir McNeal, MD, FACP, SFHM
December 10, 2019
The goal of unit-based rounding is time efficiency for the care team and care coordination benefits for patients.
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Unit-based models of care
- Geeta Malieckal, MD;
- James Gasperino, MD, PhD;
- Sima Pendharkar, MD, MPH, FACP
May 10, 2019
Unit-based teams offer a basic framework to optimize the inpatient system to facilitate better workflow.
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Unit-based assignments: Pros and cons
December 6, 2018
Geographic cohorting comes with its implementation challenges.
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Opinion
Geographic Rounding of Hospital Nurses Challenges Unit-Based Theory
- John Nelson, MD, MHM;
- MHM
March 3, 2015
Nurses, of course, have always been assigned by unit—that is, geographically. So it should come as no surprise that searching “unit-based” at the-hospitalist.org returns many articles about assigning hospitalists geographically, but not nurses, partly because few would consider it a new idea.
Video
Baystate Medical Center’s Unit-Based, Multidisciplinary Rounding Enhances Inpatient Care
October 24, 2014
The hospitalist-led Broder Service empowers all care-team members to focus on patient quality, satisfaction. Get an up-close look at the service with our 6-minute feature video:
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VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Baystate Medical Center’s Unit-Based, Multidisciplinary Rounding Enhances Inpatient Care
- Jason Carris;
- Manuel Noguera
June 10, 2014
The hospitalist-led Broder Service empowers all care-team members to focus on patient quality, satisfaction.
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Opinion
Massachusetts Hospitalists Experiment with Unit-Based Rounding
- Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM
November 1, 2013
We're also incorporating multidisciplinary rounds, where the hospitalist, case management, social services, physical therapy, and perhaps pharmacy meet each day and review each patient’s progress through the hospitalization
News
Unit-Based Rounding: A Holy Grail?
- David J. Yu, MD, MBA, FACP, SFHM
July 3, 2012
Unit-based rounding solves New Mexico group’s ills, boosts hospital’s bottom line