At last! Everything you need to manage an effective hospitalist program is right where it belongs in one easy-to-access book and CD-ROM set!Hospitals and physician practices across the country have turned to hospitalists to combat mounting financial pressures, increasing patient flow problems, and rising malpractice suits.
Unfortunately, finding the tools and resources to manage a program effectively can be a struggle. Until now . . .
A complete soup-to-nuts guide, Tools and Strategies for an Effective Hospitalist Program provides proven forms, schedules, and tools you need to effectively and efficiently run your hospitalist program. This is the resource you need for:
 - Best practice advice from all types of hospitalist programs including academic medical centers, large community hospitals, and small rural facilities - Field-tested procedures to help new hospitalist programs get started and help established programs improve current methods - Easy-to-implement tools on CD-ROM that you can adapt and tailor to any new or existing hospitalist program - Successful strategies to determine what types of operational data you need to manage a hospitalist program, which metrics should be captured, and more - Sample schedules that can be tailored for any number of hospitalists at any facility - Expert tips on how to assess the effectiveness of your hospitalist program through referring provider/specialist surveys - Wide-ranging benchmarks to establish and run a successful hospitalist program - Winning strategies for recruiting and retaining top hospitalists in a job-seekers' market - And so much more!
A look inside . . .
30 TOOLS you can modify to meet your facility's needs! Below is a sample list.
 - Implementing an electronic solution to schedule 24/7 shifts - Four-hospitalist provider rotating call schedule [2 samples to compare!] - Four-hospitalist provider block schedule - Five-hospitalist block schedule [2 samples to compare!] - Five-hospitalist seven days on/seven days off schedule - Six-hospitalist seven days on/seven days off schedule - Protocol for determining need for on-call backup - New physician retention interview - Orientation day-one and day-four checklists - Hospitalist job description at a non-teaching hospital - Hospitalist job description at an academic medical center with residents - Referring physician satisfaction survey [3 samples to compare!] - Nurse satisfaction survey [2 samples to compare!] - Draft communication plan for developing a hospitalist program - Letter to referring physicians announcing a new hospitalist program - Draft communication plan for expanding a hospitalist program - Letter to referring physician announcing the expansion of hospitalist program - Patient satisfaction survey [2 samples to compare!] - Patient-targeted hospitalist program brochure - Departmental guidelines for hospitalist evaluation - Hospitalist employee performance evaluation [2 samples to compare!]
Table of Contents at a Glance . . .
11 Critical TOPICS covered to help you develop the most effective hospitalist program!
 - Expectations for Hospitalists - Staffing, Scheduling, and Planning - Recruitment - Retention and Orientation - The Referring Provider's Perspective - Communication with Healthcare Practitioners - Communication with Patients - Hospitalist Performance Reviews - Quality Improvement and Data Collection - Preprinted Ordersets - Coding and Compliance for the Inpatient Physician

Tools and Strategies for an Effective Hospitalist Program

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HCPro Inc.

Jeffrey R. Dichter MD FACP

Kenneth G. Simone DO

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Challenged to build and manage a hospitalist program? Overcome the challenge with the latest hospitalist program management techniques from 19 experts in the field: Jeffrey R. Dichter, MD, FACP; Kenneth G. Simone, DO; Mark Ault, MD ; Yanick Beaulieu, MD, FRCPC; Martin B. Buser, MPH, FACHE; Mary Dallas, MD; Robbin Dick, MD, FACP; Leslie A. Flores, MHA ; Patricia M. Gorman, RN, MSM, CPHQ; Aaron Gottesman, MD, FACP ; Amir Jaffer, MD; Donald Krause, MD; Ajay Kumar, MD; John Nelson, MD, FACP; Philip Ng, MD; Charlene Porter, BS, MA, CPC; Bradley T. Rosen, MD, MBA; Geoff Teed; Wayne O. Winney These experts are in-the-trenches hospitalists, hospitalist program directors, chief executive officers, coding experts, chiefs of medicine, and critical care specialists. They'll help you: - Use a step-by-step approach to evaluate the need for a hospitalist program - Ensure proper communication between hospitalists, primary care physicians, and other staff - Optimize hospitalist performance - Define goals and specific performance benchmarks - Grow the hospitalist program and streamline staff - Recruit and retain effective hospitalists - Create mentoring programs, call schedules, and more - Achieve balanced workloads and successful coding practices Over the years, hospitalists' roles and responsibilities have extended far beyond what many programs originally intended. As a result, hospitals today must invest even more resources and time to create, monitor, and assess the value of a hospitalist program. For both new and existing programs, organization leaders need to ensure that the investment is worthwhile, cost-effective, of high quality, and benefits all parties the hospital, the hospitalist, and the patient. The Hospitalist Program Management Guide, Second Edition, will show you how to: - Establish a new or fledgling hospitalist program - Avoid the common mistakes made when launching a program - Monitor and improve a program once it is established This resource is completely updated with information from industry experts to help you meet evolving hospitalist program management challenges. New chapters include: Hospitalist program data: Tools to develop a program scorecard, guidelines for reviewing scorecard data, and strategies for using data to improve care and program processes. Benchmarks and evaluation: Strategies for using performance data in financial support negotiations with sponsoring organizations, physician incentive compensation plans, managed care contract negotiations, and program marketing. Tips for selecting metrics and analytical approaches to monitor performance and creating the hospitalist dashboard. Informatics specialist: Approaches for extracting performance metrics from typical information systems and navigating clinical and financial information systems. Return on investment: Tips for establishing, demonstrating, monitoring, and reporting the value of your hospitalists program to organization leadership and financial sponsors. Hospitalist culture and leadership development: Learn how to create a hospitalist culture that encourages participation, ownership, and leadership. Tips for encouraging open exchange of ideas, ensuring a reasonable workload, supporting hospitalists' individual interests and ambitions, and developing the next generation of leaders. The Hospitalist Program Management Guide, Second Edition, will serve as a resource and guide on the path to excellence.

The Hospitalist Program Management Guide, Second Edition

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