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High-Value Care/Things We Do For No Reason
July 5, 2023
In this impactful session, Dr. Lee defined value as the sum of quality of care, equity, patient outcome, and experience divided by costs of care and nonfinancial risks and harms. High-value care...
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Mr. Desamours Thrives on Serving Others
May 24, 2023
Q & A with Patrick Desamours, MSPA, PA-C, MBA, CHCQM, SFHM, director of APP operations, hospital medicine, US AcuteCare Solutions, Westminster, Md. Perseverance has paid off for Mr. Desamours...
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Dr. Gundareddy Enjoys Making Change Happen
May 1, 2023
Q & A with Venkat Gundareddy, MBBS, MPH, FACP, CHCQM-PA, SFHM, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore Dr. Gundareddy thrives in the variety of his job--clinical, academic, and...
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Important Lessons from Hospitalists Who Love Their Jobs
May 1, 2023
Job stress, moral injury, burnout, and the great resignation—these are very real concerns for the field of hospital medicine, exacerbated by but not limited to the unprecedented challenges of the...
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Lessons in Redeployment from Adult Hospitalists
May 1, 2023
Diverse mid-adult nurses, mature adult hospital administrators, and senior adult doctors are standing around a table in a hospital board room. They are reviewing spreadsheets and charts containing...
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2023 Masters in Hospital Medicine
April 12, 2023
SHM outgoing president Rachel Thompson, MD, MPH, SFHM, kicked off SHM Converge 2023 in Austin, Texas in March by honoring SHM's 2023 class of Masters in Hospital Medicine—Alpesh N. Amin, MD, MBA,...
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For Dr. Hadley, Hospital Medicine is the Ultimate Team Sport
April 3, 2023
Q & A with Andrea Hadley, MD, FAAP, Corewell Health/Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, Grand Rapids, Mich. As a med-peds hospitalist, Dr. Hadley turns to SHM for networking an education, and she...
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The 7 Deadly Sins for LOS
April 3, 2023
Dr. Soares Hospitalization is an essential resource for the treatment of many patients, but are we doing it in the safest and most efficient way? Achieving effective hospitalizations with a...
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The Rewards of Getting Involved
March 24, 2023
The Hospitalist‘s editorial advisory board is a volunteer group of SHM members who share their time, experience, insight, and ideas to ensure we're publishing relevant, interesting, and educational...
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Bright Spots in the Future of Hospital Medicine
March 1, 2023
As Americans start to rediscover their place in a (largely) post-pandemic world, hospitalists across the country are resuming and recommitting to a variety of extracurricular roles and...