How has the healthcare industry accepted hospitalists?
The acceptance of hospital medicine was initially slow in some parts of the country but is now growing rapidly nationwide. Virtually all of the country’s leading hospitals – from the Mayo and Cleveland Clinics, Harvard’s Brigham and Beth Israel Hospitals and the hospitals of the Universities of California, Emory, Chicago, Pennsylvania and Michigan – have developed hospital medicine programs. Currently, most hospitals and medical groups are starting new programs or growing their current hospital medicine groups as they try to address the challenges of inpatient care and patient safety while enhancing quality and service to patients. Many of the nation’s largest managed care programs – including Humana, Kaiser, Aetna, PacifiCare, Cigna and others – have voluntary hospital medicine programs in place.
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