National Hospitalist Day honors hospitalists. This year's feature focuses on hospitalists' diverse contributions to healthcare, showcasing varied career paths in hospital medicine.

Sometimes that may mean carving out an hour here or there during the day and, sometimes, it may mean working on a day off.

Several local hospitals are moving forward on the hospitalist bandwagon, focusing on full-time doctors who work solely within the hospital, rather than private physicians who come by in the evening to ...

JHM’s Leadership and Professional Development series offers practical guidance to hospitalists navigating professional challenges, focusing on growth beyond traditional career milestones.

Many hospitals are establishing hospitalist programs to provide more focused care to hospitalized patients and to help reduce length of stay and readmissions. In late August, for instance, St. John’s ...

New data suggests dedicated OB hospitalists can reduce complications and improve access, but for CMOs, the bigger question is ...

Highlights of a recent Ob Hospitalist Group report include 1,608 infant deaths avoided, 1,036 preterm births avoided, and a C-section rate that was significantly below the national average.

As healthcare systems grow increasingly complex, hospitalists have become central to modern inpatient care. A hospitalist is ...

A growing number of in-demand physicians are seeing patients without appointments, checking up on them multiple times a day and providing comprehensive care. But there’s a catch: You shouldn’t aspire ...

The following findings are based on 816 respondents who participated in a 2009 Press Ganey survey. 1. Satisfaction with the variety of clinical problems presented by your patients — 82.3 2.

Calling all jugglers, multitaskers, directors, and problem-solvers, aka hospitalists. Hospital medicine is one of the fastest growing and evolving pathways in medicine. Unlike some other specialties ...

Leon Vangerud breathed deeply as the doctor pressed the stethoscope against his 83-year-old chest and back. "You're not getting dizzy anymore?" Dr. Muhammed Shaikh asked. "Once in a while. Not bad," ...