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John Nelson: Recognition, Promotion, Development Critical to Group Success
- John Nelson, MD, MHM;
- MHM
May 25, 2012
Well-designed forms of nonmonetary compensation can have a greater impact on a hospitalist than providing a reward in dollars.
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John Nelson: Your Hospital Should Use Scripts to Describe Hospitalists to Patients
- John Nelson, MD, MHM;
- MHM
April 26, 2012
Ideally, all communication about the hospitalist as an individual and the whole system of hospitalist care should help reassure the patient. Sadly, many people at the hospital unwittingly do the opposite.
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JOHN NELSON: Morning Discharges and Length of Stay
- John Nelson, MD, MHM;
- MHM
March 31, 2012
This month I will focus on what can be thought of as the two components of “back end” throughput: effective management of length of stay (LOS) and patient discharge in the morning rather than late in the day
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John Nelson: ED Patient Throughput Is New Core Measure
- John Nelson, MD, MHM;
- MHM
February 29, 2012
Hospitals are likely to increase their customers’ satisfaction by improving “frontend” throughput from the ED to the inpatient unit. In fact, CMS added two new core measures (known as inpatient quality reporting, or IQR) that hospitals began reporting on Jan. 1.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to HM pioneers John Nelson, Bob Wachter, and Win Whitcomb ruminate on HM’s 15-year anniversary
August 1, 2011
The Society of Hospital Medicine's co-founders have witnessed explosive growth and maturation, and also see a bright future for a specialty that now numbers in excess of 30,000 nationwide
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HM15 Session Analysis: Innovative Hospitalist Staffing Models
- Amanda Trask, MBA, MHA, FACHE, CMPE, SFHM
April 9, 2015
HM15 Presenters: John Nelson, MD, MHM; Daniel Hanson, MD, FHM; Darren Thomas, MD
Summation: The presenters, from three entirely different geographic regions across the U.S., walked the audience through several different innovative hospitalist staffing models, from staffing in a multi-hospital sy
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Editorial Board Picks for Must-Attend Converge 2024 Sessions
February 23, 2024
If you’re attending SHM Converge 2024 in San Diego in April, you’ve probably already checked out the jam-packed schedule and may have even started circling the sessions you want to attend. We...
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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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Investing in the Future
September 1, 2022
Q & A with Raman Palabindala, MD, MBA, SFHM, CLHM, regional medical director of population health, Optum, Seattle, Wash. Dr. Palabindala, a volunteer member of The Hospitalist's editorial...
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Movers and Shakers
August 17, 2022
Christie White, MBA, HCM-CMPE has been named chief operations officer at Lovelace Health System, Albuquerque, N.M. Ms. White has more than 26 years of experience in health care, including both...