![1]() - News- Hospitalists Can Help Bridge Gaps in Healthcare Access as Hospitals Cope with Mounting Financial Pressures- April 1, 2014- Amid hospital closures, staff cuts, hospitalists may need to expand spectrum of patient care beyond acute episodes 
![1]() - News- The Rise, Evolution of Hospital-Based Practice- April 1, 2014- Factors that created hospital medicine groups, led primary care physicians to become hospitalists 
![1]() - News- Four Hospitalists Retrace Path to C-Suite Executive Ranks- April 1, 2014- Drs. Brian Harte, Nasim Afsar, Patrick Torcson, Steve Narang discuss the qualities, skills, strategies that landed them in hospitals' top spots 
![1]() - News- Hospitalist Thrives In Leadership Role Overseeing Care Coordination- April 1, 2014- South Carolina-based hospital medicine group director Jairy Hunter III, MD, is all about getting things done 
![1]() - News- Frequency, Traits of Hospital-Acquired VTE in Children Reviewed- April 1, 2014- Children with renal, cardiac diagnoses, increasing age, central venous catheters associated with higher incidence of venous thromboembolism during hospital stay 
- News- Hospitalist Reviews on Pre-Operative Beta Blockers, Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest, Colloids vs. Crystalloids for Hypovolemic Shock- April 1, 2014- Also reviewed this month: inpatient boarding, triple-rule-out imaging for coronaries, edoxaban compared with warfarin for atrial fibrillation 
- News- Society of Hospital Medicine Ranks Observation Status a Priority Advocacy Issue- April 1, 2014- SHM to survey hospitalists on impact of designation on short-stay patients, develop possible policy revisions 
- News- Society of Hospital Medicine Schedules Leadership Academy to Meet in Honolulu- April 1, 2014- Four-day session planned for November 3-6, 2014 
- News- Discounted Registration Available for Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference- April 1, 2014- Reduced rates for PHM14 in effect until May 16 
- News- Space Available to Attend Quality and Safety Educators Academy in May- April 1, 2014- Seminar co-sponsored by Society of Hospital Medicine, Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine to be held May 1–3 in Tempe, Arizona 




