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TeamHealth Hospital Medicine
Overview
Long before the term "hospitalist" was coined, we developed our hospital medicine services in response to requests from our emergency department hospital clients who needed a solution for providing full-time, consistent care for their admitted patients. Today we are one of the nation's leading providers of hospitalist and intensivist services.
Corporate Profile
Hospital medicine has attracted much attention in recent years as the fastest growing specialty. Some of the documented benefits of incorporating hospitalists and a hospital medicine program into your hospital include:
- Lower costs, shorter lengths of stay and better medical outcomes, including higher survival rates
- A solution for the care of unassigned patients
- More frequent physician communication with patients and their families
- Higher patient satisfaction levels
- Greater experience and higher expertise in the care of acutely ill patients
- Ability to recognize patients who require special attention, anticipate problems and rapidly respond to crises and changes in a patient's condition
- Streamlined and expedited care, including coordination with medical and surgical consultants, discharge planners, primary care physicians and post-hospital care providers
- Improved communication between day and night shifts
- Better continuity of patient care