Hospitalist Program To The Rescue!
No doubt about it. These economic times are times that try men's souls - economically anyways. That being said, the medical professional has a new twist on itself that seems to be working out pretty well.
Everybody knows that medical institutions across the United States are - or at the very least, used to be - well known for their high standard of care. Modern technology and the best trained doctors and nurses in America meant that people from all over the world came to the US when they wanted, or required, a guarantee of the best medical care possible.
And what was this 'old' model of health care? In the old model, you had hospital groups who hired regular medical doctors. Most of their work was accomplished within the confines of their offices and they only came to hospitals to check on their patients who were there for some type of surgery or inpatient care.
In the new model of hospital care, you're finding a new face in hospitals - somebody called a hospitalist. The old program, administered by the patient's personal physician who came to the hospital maybe once a day to see his or her patients, is now becoming a 'hospitalist program' administered by the new breed of hospitalists. In fact, more and more hospitalists are forming hospitalist groups to administer this efficient new type of care.
The kind of doctor who works in these new hospitalist groups and works in a hospitalist program is just like the doctor you and I are used to; however, it is the way that they work and where they fit into the daily operation of the hospital that's so unique.
A hospitalist type medical physician has the same training, the same licensure and the same level of competence as any other doctor. The only difference is that, for a variety of reasons, they have decided they would rather work strictly within the confines of the hospital rather than from an office like family practitioner would.
Their duties do differ from the traditional attending physician. In fact, their duties could be compared to a military rank somewhere in the middle between officer and senior NCO. They have more training than a nurse and a different type of training, so they're in a position to make decisions that nurses can't and do not make. The advantage to the patient is that the hospitalist is around all the time; so, in the event of an emergency, there is a real doctor right there 'in the house'.
Hospitals like this idea because it actually increases the number of actual doctors physically available which immediately reduces the risk to the hospital of having a patient emergency that does not get handled properly because the attending physician could not get to the hospital in time. That is just one of the advantages. There are many more advantages, no doubt about it, but the new specialty of 'hospitalist' is helping to reduce costs while maintaining the high quality of care that patients have come to expect from America's hospitals.
Everybody knows that medical institutions across the United States are - or at the very least, used to be - well known for their high standard of care. Modern technology and the best trained doctors and nurses in America meant that people from all over the world came to the US when they wanted, or required, a guarantee of the best medical care possible.
And what was this 'old' model of health care? In the old model, you had hospital groups who hired regular medical doctors. Most of their work was accomplished within the confines of their offices and they only came to hospitals to check on their patients who were there for some type of surgery or inpatient care.
In the new model of hospital care, you're finding a new face in hospitals - somebody called a hospitalist. The old program, administered by the patient's personal physician who came to the hospital maybe once a day to see his or her patients, is now becoming a 'hospitalist program' administered by the new breed of hospitalists. In fact, more and more hospitalists are forming hospitalist groups to administer this efficient new type of care.
The kind of doctor who works in these new hospitalist groups and works in a hospitalist program is just like the doctor you and I are used to; however, it is the way that they work and where they fit into the daily operation of the hospital that's so unique.
A hospitalist type medical physician has the same training, the same licensure and the same level of competence as any other doctor. The only difference is that, for a variety of reasons, they have decided they would rather work strictly within the confines of the hospital rather than from an office like family practitioner would.
Their duties do differ from the traditional attending physician. In fact, their duties could be compared to a military rank somewhere in the middle between officer and senior NCO. They have more training than a nurse and a different type of training, so they're in a position to make decisions that nurses can't and do not make. The advantage to the patient is that the hospitalist is around all the time; so, in the event of an emergency, there is a real doctor right there 'in the house'.
Hospitals like this idea because it actually increases the number of actual doctors physically available which immediately reduces the risk to the hospital of having a patient emergency that does not get handled properly because the attending physician could not get to the hospital in time. That is just one of the advantages. There are many more advantages, no doubt about it, but the new specialty of 'hospitalist' is helping to reduce costs while maintaining the high quality of care that patients have come to expect from America's hospitals.
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