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Moving Out
October 1, 2005
What the future holds for thehospital discharge process
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Survey Time
October 1, 2005
Ensure your voice is heard in SHM’s 2005 Productivity and Compensation Survey
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Eye of the Storm
- and;
- Steven Deitelzweig, MD, FACP
October 1, 2005
The Ochsner Hospital Program in New Orleans hunkered down for the duration of Hurricane Katrina. Here is their story.
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Maximizing Throughput and Improving Patient Flow
- Coordinating Writer;
- Patrick Cawley, MD;
- Phyllis Hanlon;
- Project Leader;
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
September 2, 2005
According to data from the American Hospital Association (1), in 1985, the United States had 5732 operational community hospitals; by 2002, the latest year for which figures are available, the number had decreased to 4927, a loss of approximately 14% (1).
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Providing Extraordinary Availability
- Coordinating Writer;
- Phyllis Hanlon;
- Project Leader;
- Shm Benchmarks Committee;
- Stacy Goldsholl, MD
September 1, 2005
In 1994, Jack Rosenbloom was admitted to an Indiana hospital after suffering a serious heart attack. While in the critical care unit (CCU) of the healthcare facility, he experienced a major relapse, prompting a “code blue” situation.
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Leading Hospital Medical Staffs
- Coordinating Writer;
- Mary Pak, MD And Kathleen Kerr;
- Phyllis Hanlon;
- Project Leader;
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
September 1, 2005
When Robert Lee, MD, an internist affiliated with Iowa Health Physicians, a multi-specialty group in Des Moines, was called to the hospital to see one of his patients, he faced a 50-minute round trip plus additional time to find a parking place and catch an elevator before reaching the inpatient uni
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Improving Physician’s Practices
- Burke T. Kealey, MD And Larry Vidrine, MD;
- Coordinating Writer;
- Phyllis Hanlon;
- Project Leaders;
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
September 1, 2005
Hospitals face a range of critical issues and need members of their medical staff to assume a role in addressing them.
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Treating Unassigned Patients
- Coordinating Writer;
- Phyllis Hanlon;
- Shm Benchmarks Committee
September 1, 2005
In the 1970s and 1980s, indigent patients experienced problems at hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) around the country. They were refused care and shuttled to other facilities for services.
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Introduction from the Editor
September 1, 2005
How Hospitalists Add Value
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Publication as Patient
September 1, 2005
Newman ponders how The Hospitalist will evolve during his tenure