Hospitalist programs have been used as a way to more efficiently deliver healthcare in the hospital setting for decades now. But the way an organization deploys personnel in a hospitalist program can ...

More and more medical centers are relying on hospitalists -- hospital-based internal medicine specialists who coordinate the complex care of inpatients. Now, an 18-month study comparing two ...

Every evening, nurse practitioner (NP) Arnold Facklam arrives at South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta, Georgia, an hour before his two physician counterparts. As an NP nocturnist, a hospitalist ...

Hours after being admitted to Sacred Heart Hospital with pneumonia earlier this month, Ken Wnek met the doctor who would oversee his care. “I am a hospitalist,” Dr. Kevin Joyce said, introducing ...