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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Experts discuss strategies to improve early discharges
October 1, 2011
Emergency Nurses Association President AnnMarie Papa discusses patient partnerships; Ken Simone explains the pressures hospitals face in moving patients and potential incentives to get nurses on board the early-discharge train
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to Russell Holman and Ed Weinberg discuss companies’ acquisition strategies
September 1, 2011
Dr. Holman is chief operating officer at Cogent HMG in Brentwood, Tenn. Weinberg is CEO of Hospital Physician Partners in Hollywood, Fla.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to Tosha Wetterneck and Keiki Hinami discuss burnout and career satisfaction
September 1, 2011
Co-authors of a new career satisfaction survey discuss hospitalists' concerns
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to David Meltzer and Scott Lundberg talk about HM efficiency
September 1, 2011
Experts discuss the need for experienced hospitalistsand the effectiveness of hospitalists in recouping reimbursement
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to Pat Cawley and Frank Michota discuss what’s next for HM
August 1, 2011
Dr. Cawley, former SHM president, and Dr. Michota, chief of hospital medicine at Cleveland Clinic, forecast a bright future for hospitalists, but also expect growing pains along the way
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to program directors discuss managing a group when a hospitalist is out on maternity leave
August 1, 2011
All HM program directors need to be aware of such federal laws as the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act, as well as the corresponding laws of the state in which they work.
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: How to minimize the adverse affects of working night shifts
August 1, 2011
Christopher P. Landrigan, MD, SFHM, MPH, director of the Sleep and Patient Safety Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, offers suggestions for minimizing the adverse affects of switching from day shift to night shift and back again
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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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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Hospitalists discuss the time-honored tradition of hospital payments to HM groups
July 1, 2011
Troy Ahlstrom, MD, SFHM, CFO of Hospitalists of Northern Michigan, a hospitalist-owned and -managed group based in Traverse City, and John Laverty, DHA, vice president of hospital-based physicians at HCA Physician Services in Nashville, Tenn., discuss hospital payments to HM programs
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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Listen to experts discuss drug shortages
July 1, 2011
Hospitalist Lalit Verma and ISMP President David Cohen talk about the myriad reasons behind drug shortages