Hospitalists

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Hospitalists at the heart of our nation’s COVID-19 response

March 4, 2021

By Rohit Uppal, MD, MBA, TeamHealth Chief Clinical Officer, Hospitalist Services On this National Hospitalist Day, I want to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude to our hospitalists. I know that this has been a challenging time for you and your families. I hope that each of you feel a sense of pride...

National Hospitalist Day 2020

March 5, 2020

By Rohit Uppal, MD, MBA, Chief Clinical Officer, Hospitalist Services In celebration of Hospital Medicine, the Society of Hospital Medicine declared the first Thursday in March as National Hospitalist Day, which is today, Thursday, March 5, 2020! 2019 was a remarkable year for our Hospital Medicine program: Our overall Net Promoter Score (NPS) increased by...

TeamHealth Celebrates National Hospitalist Day with a New HSPI Team

March 7, 2019

By Rohit Uppal, MD, MBA, Chief Clinical Officer, Hospitalist Services The Society of Hospital Medicine recently announced that the first Thursday in March will be dedicated to the fastest growing specialty in modern healthcare–Hospital Medicine! This day of recognition for our hospitalist clinicians is a well-deserved celebration of the enormous value they bring to their...

Beyond Clinical Medicine Episode 2: Benefits of OB/GYN Hospitalists

February 5, 2019

Hear conversations with leading clinicians across the country that cover all the things they don’t teach you in residency in our new podcast Beyond Clinical Medicine. In today’s episode, Dr. Strauss speaks with Dr. Khadeja Haye, MD, MBA, FACOG, TeamHealth National Medical Director, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Hospitalists Services, about the role of OB/GYN Hospitalists...

TeamHealth Hospital Medicine Impacts Metrics at a Tennessee Hospital

July 26, 2018

In 2016, the leadership team at Tennova Cleveland in Cleveland, Tennessee met with TeamHealth’s new facility medical director (FMD) to discuss top priorities for the hospital medicine program’s performance enhancement, including improving relationships with community-based physicians, streamlining patient throughput and raising HCAHPS score metrics. The FMD devised plans to tackle all three issues, starting with...

Perioperative Integration Promotes Enhanced Recovery After Surgery

April 26, 2018

By Sonya Pease, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Anesthesiology TeamHealth Benefits of Integrating Perioperative Care Imagine for a moment that you’re a 50-year-old, otherwise, healthy patient with a new diagnosis of colon cancer found during routine screening colonoscopy. You now need a right colon resection. How do you select your surgeon or the hospital where you’ll...

TeamHealth Helps Improve Patient Satisfaction

April 24, 2018

Mount St. Mary’s Hospital developed an emergency department (ED) throughput initiative in response to patient satisfaction surveys and safety initiatives from The Joint Commission for improving wait times patient safety. The initiative had two goals: Move patients from the point of entry to meeting with the medical provider as quickly as possible. Increase communication with...

TeamHealth Helps CarolinaEast Medical Center Face Orthopedic Challenges

April 10, 2018

Several years ago, CarolinaEast Medical Center, located in New Bern, North Carolina, faced challenges with its emergency call coverage for orthopedic patients. CarolinaEast turned to the experts at TeamHealth, who ultimately worked with the hospital and the orthopedic physicians to design a hospitalist program that benefits all parties. Under the program, TeamHealth provides orthopedic hospitalists...

Hospital Medicine – Now an International Specialty

March 8, 2018

By Ron Greeno, MD, Senior Advisor for Medical Affairs, President of the Society of Hospital Medicine This past fall, I was asked to speak at a conference for Japanese hospitalists in Tokyo. They wanted me to speak about the evolution of the hospitalist model in the United States and to begin conversations about getting support...

TeamHealth Integrates OB-ED and OB Hospitalist Services

November 30, 2017

TeamHealth’s OB/GYN hospitalist program provides stable, dependable services to help your hospital deliver higher quality care to expectant mothers. As the first OB/GYN hospitalist company in the country, we have the experience and resources to help hospitals nationwide achieve their obstetric department’s goals. Our clinicians provide a 24/7/365 in-hospital OB/GYN provider presence that specializes in...

TeamHealth Helps Improve Patient Satisfaction

November 2, 2017

Welekema (Love): The Real Reason I Care

October 26, 2017

By Samuel Harris, MD I was born and raised in a small country in sub-Saharan Africa settled by freed slaves who returned from the United States in the 1800s to begin their own free and democratic nation. They called it Liberia—the land of liberty—as they came from slavery to full-fledged freedom. The capital city is...

In recognition of TeamHealth colleagues who responded during the Las Vegas Shooting

October 12, 2017

TeamHealth Colleagues, On Monday, October 2, our nation woke up to learn of the tragic events that unfolded in Las Vegas, Nevada, where a gunman opened fire during a music festival on the Las Vegas strip. At least 58 people were killed, and more than 520 were injured. As I absorbed the news, my mind...

Dr. Ron Greeno Japanese Society of Hospital General Medicine Address

August 30, 2017

Ron Greeno, MD, FCCP, MHM, Senior Advisor for Medical Affairs for TeamHealth recently presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Hospital General Medicine International Symposium in Tokyo on September 14, 2017. He was invited to Japan to address the Japanese Society of Hospital General Medicine on The Evolution of the Hospitalist Model...