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    Chapter Spotlight: St. Louis

    June 1, 2023

    St. Louis downtown city skyline at twilight. To many, engagement is a buzzword used to make employees feel as if they have a say. Dr. Hoque To Farzana Hoque, MD, MRCP (UK), FACP, FRCP,...

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    SIG Spotlight: Global Hospital Medicine

    May 1, 2023

    All of SHM’s Special Interest Groups (SIG) look to solve issues, but some are more challenging in scope than others. Those focused on the spread of interdisciplinary rounding, or the improvement...

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    Chapter Spotlight: North Florida

    May 1, 2023

    Matthew Calestino, MD, FACP, SFHM,—along with Drs. Handel Desa and Calixto Zaldivar—helped found the North Florida chapter of SHM in 2018 with an eye toward building a cohesive network of...

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    SIG Spotlight: DEI

    April 3, 2023

    Diversity, equity, and inclusion. DEI. Sometimes the buzzword that DEI has become can evoke a sense of being overwhelmed. So many things can seem to fall short of important goals that even trying...

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    Chapter Spotlight: North Jersey

    April 3, 2023

    North Jersey, which represents the area between the upper Delaware River and the Atlantic Ocean, is considered part of the greater New York City metropolitan area; it has a higher population compared...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Central Texas

    February 1, 2023

    They say everything is bigger in Texas—and it appears SHM chapters are no exception.  Take the Central Texas group, which stretches from Waco to San Antonio (anchored by Austin roughly halfway...

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    SIG Spotlight: Interdisciplinary Rounding

    February 1, 2023

    Sarah Horman, MD, helped lead the launch of interdisciplinary rounding at the University of California San Diego in 2017. But it wasn’t until two years later that she found herself at the annual...

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    SIG Spotlight: Rural Hospitalists

    January 3, 2023

    Lisa Kaufmann, MD, moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 2014. Dr. Kaufmann She knew of the region from her undergraduate and medical-school years at Duke University in...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Pacific Northwest

    January 3, 2023

    Dr. Franco The use of technology to connect people is a great idea if you ask Thérèse Franco, MD, SFHM, president of SHM’s Pacific Northwest chapter. But not if it’s technology for...

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    E/M Coding Changes for 2023

    December 13, 2022

    The last time that evaluation and management (E/M) coding guidelines were significantly overhauled was in 1995 and 1997. To put that timeframe in context? Hospitalist was a term coined in a 1996 New...