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The Case for Hospitalists’ Involvement in Hospital Contract Negotiations
June 24, 2025
Physician advisors and hospitalists bring indispensable value to contract negotiations between hospital systems and payers. Traditionally, contracting has been managed primarily by finance and...
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Career Hospitalist Advisement and Mentorship Program (CHAMP)
June 2, 2025
Between 2012 and 2019, the field of hospital medicine experienced rapid growth, expanding by 50%.1 From 2019 to 2021 alone, there was an additional 10% increase, signaling continued growth over the...
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Non-Medical Consequences: The 6th Element of Informed Consent
May 1, 2025
Informed consent is critical to the daily practice of medicine. Conversations about the risks and benefits of treatment options are both a legal requirement and an ethical duty. However, another...
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The Committee That Could: A Model for Rapid Service Structure Change
May 1, 2025
How We Did It is a new column that aims to highlight how individual hospitalist programs have successfully implemented innovations in medical programs, educational programs, wellness initiatives, or...
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Supply Chain Stewardship
May 1, 2025
Healthcare supply chain disruptions have emerged as a major challenge nationwide, fundamentally reshaping clinical practice and patient-care delivery within hospitals. As clinicians, we increasingly...
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5 Best Practices and Resources for Interhospital Transfers
April 1, 2025
Transfer of patients between hospitals has long been a part of hospitalist life, and most hospitalists can recall any number of challenging situations. Driven by a desire to improve these situations...
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Trends in Benefits for Hospitalists, and How They Help With Recruitment and Retention
April 1, 2025
Every incentive counts when it comes to recruiting and retaining top talent. In particular, today’s hospitalists view funding for continuing medical education (CME) and getting paid time off (PTO)...
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What Impact Do Affinity Groups Have on the Inclusivity of Hiring Practices for Hospital Medicine?
April 1, 2025
Case Dr. HM is a third-year internal medicine resident physician preparing to apply for a hospitalist position after completing residency. As an underrepresented physician in medicine, she seeks to...
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Can Expediting Patient Discharge Past Clinical and Non-Clinical Barriers Improve Overall Hospital Throughput?
March 4, 2025
It’s 8 a.m. and the hospital is starting the day in a tough position. There are 15 patients boarding in the emergency department (ED), two patients who can be downgraded from the intensive care...
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How Can We Cultivate Happiness in Medicine?
February 3, 2025
Case A 45-year-old hospitalist, a familiar face in the system for the past decade, tragically took his own life. His colleagues and staff admired him, and he always had a pleasant working...