AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE
Sponsored by The Hospitalist Program Management Guide
presented on January 25, 2005
It's no secret that hospitalist programs are the new trend for inpatient care.
Hospitals and health organizations across the country have recently established hospitalist programs. But the real questions are: Are those programs successful? How can you tell? What can you do to enhance the effectiveness of a hospitalist program?
A poorly designed and managed hospitalist program can actually hinder your organization.
Find out which models work and which ones don't when you listen to "How to Design and Optimize a Modern Hospitalist Program." This exciting program will give you the nuts and bolts you need to make your hospitalist program run like a well-oiled machine!
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HCPro's experts will show you how to drive your program to excellence.
During this 90-minute audioconference, you'll hear successful strategies, best practices, tips to avoid common pitfalls, and real life examples of current hospitalist programs. You'll walk away with an effective hospitalist model that you can apply in any hospital setting!
This program has tips for every shape and size!
Whether you are a major academic hospital, an urban hospital, a community hospital, or a rural hospital-you'll hear strategies you can use to optimize your hospitalists' role in your facility. For new and established programs alike, "How to Design and Optimize a Modern Hospitalist Program" will deliver proven solutions to pertinent and pressing issues for managing your hospitalist program.
Here are the key areas we'll cover:
- Find the right hospitalist
- How to privilege hospitalists (internal medicine, family practice, intensivists, etc.)
- Select the right candidate for your hospital program
- Contracts and compensation issues for hospitalists (salary, salary plus incentive, fee for service, other options) - How can/should hospitalists work with your organized medical staff?
- Address hospitalists in your bylaws
- Scheduling hospitalist and on-call coverage
- Doctor to doctor communications: admission and handoffs
- Useful tools and forms for your hospitalist programs
- You have specific outcomes you want from your hospitalist program, how can you achieve your goals?
- Discharge planning and the hospitalist program
- Setting up pre-operative consultation clinics
- What constitutes value for hospitals and how do you measure it?
Who should listen?
- Hospital Leaders
- Medical staff services professionals
- Medical staff leaders
- CEOs
- Vice president of medical affairs
- Nurse managers
- Directors of hospitalist programs
- Hospitalists
- Chiefs of staff
- Risk managers
- Quality control staff
Featured Speakers:
Jeffrey R. Dichter, MD, FACP, is currently the immediate past-president of the Society of Hospital Medicine and the director of the hospitalist program at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Indiana. He is both a practicing hospitalist and intensivist, having done his internal medicine residency at Los Angeles County General Hospital and critical care medicine fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He is an expert in the field of hospital medicine, and focuses on the culture of teamwork in the hospital setting.
Jonathan H. Burroughs, MD, FACEP, FAAFP, is currently president of the medical staff at Memorial Hospital; a small community based healthcare system located in the heart of the White Mountains in North Conway, New Hampshire. As a part of this position, he chairs the medical executive committee and sits on the: Board of Trustees and the Joint Conference, Performance Improvement, Medical Staff Development, Strategic Planning, Improving Medication Safety, and Root Cause Analysis Committees.
Todd Sagin, MD, JD, (Moderator). His expertise includes quality and performance management, credentialing and privileging, and medical staff affairs. Dr. Sagin is a physician executive with broad experience in the healthcare marketplace.
Program Materials:
Program materials will be provided with PDF links.
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