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HM Turns 20: A Look at the Evolution of Hospital Medicine
August 12, 2016
A look at the evolution of hospital medicine as it celebrates 20 years
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Hospitalist Chief Finds Value in SHM’s Hospitalist Engagement Benchmarking Service
June 2, 2016
Rachel Lovins, MD, SFHM, CPE, is the chief of hospital medicine and vice chair of the Department of Medicine at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, Conn.
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Administrators Share Strategies for High-Performing Hospitalist Groups at HM16
April 7, 2016
In November, Barbara Weisenbach took a new job as practice manager for the hospitalist group at Northwest Hospital in Seattle. She’s an experienced administrator but as for hospital medicine, not so much.
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2016: Celebrating 20 Years of Hospital Medicine and Looking Toward a Bright Future
January 19, 2016
For hospitalists who were practicing medicine in 1996, it may seem like just a few years ago; however, that was when the term “hospitalist” was first used by Bob Wachter, MD, MHM, and Lee Goldman, MD, in a New England Journal of Medicine article.
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TeamHealth-IPC Deal Latest in Consolidation Trend
August 11, 2015
Two deals involving hospitalist management firms were announced in the past week, further consolidating the ranks of staffing companies in the specialty.
In the bigger deal, TeamHealth Holdings, Inc., last week agreed to acquire IPC Healthcare Inc. of North Hollywood, Calif., for $1.6 billion.
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Society of Hospital Medicine Welcomes New Fellows Class
May 5, 2015
[caption id="attachment_9221" align="alignright" width="295"] Outgoing SHM President Burke Kealey (center) awards SHM CEO Larry Wellikson (left) and Brad Flansbaum (right) with plaques for their MHM inductions at HM15 in National Harbor, Md.[/caption]
Last month, more than 230 hospitalists were i
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Hospitalists’ Responsibility, Role in Readmission Prevention
April 3, 2015
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Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, K.T.
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Hospitalist Management Giant Emerges as Sound Physicians, Cogent Healthcare Merge
December 16, 2014
Sound Physicians' recent acquisition of Cogent Healthcare creates the largest hospitalist management group in the country, which may or may not be a good thing, one hospitalist expert notes.
The deal, which closed last month, creates a company with more than 1,750 hospitalists in 180 hospitals na
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SGR Reform, ICD-10 Implementation Delays Frustrate Hospitalists, Physicians
July 1, 2014
Recent stalls to fix physician reimbursement program, implement overhauled medical coding system considered costly to healthcare industry
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Society of Hospital Medicine’s Hospitalist Program Peak Performance Sets Foundation for Improvement
May 2, 2014
Designed to reduce readmission rates in Illinois hospitals, HP3 program promotes better hospital medicine group performance through quality initiatives, project management techniques