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A Dedicated Triage Hospitalist to Improve Flow in a Multisite Health System
October 1, 2026
Between 2020 and 2025, inpatient volumes on the medicine service line at our large, multisite academic medical center (AMC) grew by approximately 83%, and average hospital occupancy exceeded 90%. To...
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Hospitalists at the Hub of Patient Flow
October 1, 2026
For all the expansion of hospital medicine beyond its original focus on the hospital floor—incorporating extensivists, skilled-nursing-facility-ists, laborists, nocturnists, etc.—an essential...
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Optimizing Patient Flow and Growing Referring-Hospital Transfers
September 2, 2026
As a quaternary academic referral center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) is heavily reliant on transfers from referring hospitals and experiences a high volume of such...
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How to Lead a Debrief After a Patient Death or Adverse Event
July 1, 2026
Every patient’s death carries a weight that physicians learn to carry quietly, sometimes for years. Experience does not erase it. Even seasoned clinicians find themselves returning to the same...
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Leveraging Research, Education, and Communication for Better LGBTQIA+ Care
June 1, 2026
Dr. Keaster Andrew Keaster, MD, is a hospitalist with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, who also takes some shifts at the gender-affirming care clinic that he...
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The Value of Investing in Good Onboarding for Hospitalists
May 1, 2026
Every hospital system faces the challenges of orienting and integrating new healthcare personnel, including new hospitalists, many of whom come straight from residency or fellowship. Some bumps are...
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Virtual Hybrid H@H Model Offers Comparable Safety, More Comfort
March 2, 2026
CLINICAL QUESTION: Is a hybrid hospital at home program as safe as traditional inpatient care? BACKGROUND: Hospital at home (H@H) programs are expanding in the U.S. in an effort to ease hospital...
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Expanding Pediatric Hospital Capacity Through a Pediatric Hospital-at-Home Unit in a Large U.S. Children’s Hospital
March 2, 2026
Children’s hospitals across the U.S. are increasingly experiencing capacity shortages, particularly at times of seasonal surges in acute illness.1 In addition, increasing closures of smaller and...
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Rounding and Admitting Teams—Separate or Together?
March 2, 2026
Clean, Clear, and Consistent For years, I was strongly against splitting our hospital medicine team structure into admitting and rounding teams. In looking at the competing values associated with...
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Essential, Yet Unsettled: H-1B Hospitalists
January 5, 2026
Maheswara Reddy Koppula, MD, who was born in India and now works as a physician in the U.S., had fulfilled the requirements of his J-1 visa, which required him to work in a medically underserved...
