Have you met a Hospitalist – Meet Dr. Franklin Loria
With the development of new cures and treatment in medicine, you didn’t think that the delivery of health care was going to remain unchanged did you? Whether by necessity, insurance company mandates or the sheer lack of time, delivery of care to a hospitalized patient has shifted in many places from the primary care physician to a new group of internal medical doctors, also known as Hospitalists. As the name implies, these doctors practice where there are hospitalized patients. Because family doctors are forced to see more patients than ever, their time is so limited that to be effective, they arrange for these in hospital professionals to oversee the needs and treatment of their patients. And the system works. It is becoming more and more adopted across the country.
Dr. Franklin Loria is Director of Hospitalists at Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, CT. Having been an internist in private practice, he saw the need for this class of doctors years before many of these programs were launched. His description of the hospitalist, health care delivery and careers in medicine are both informative and refreshing. 04/10/11
RESEARCH AND READINGS ON HOSPITALISTS
Patient Satisfaction: the Hospitalist’s Role
What is a Hospitalist?: Who is the doctor? Why isn’t my physician coming to see me in the hospital?
9/4/10 Medical Myths That Can Kill You
Some myths are harmless. But some can kill you if you don’t get the facts from a doctor. In this Lifescript exclusive, NBC News medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman debunks the most dangerous health misconceptions – and shares secrets that could save your life. Plus, test your women’s health IQ…
8/08/10 Medical Identity Theft
Not as widely known as your run of the mill Identity Theft, Medical Identity Theft can have a far more dangerous impact on a person. While it involves finances, it has the ability to undermine someones ability to get medical care, insurance and even a job. While the threat is known, means to thwart it are still being developed. The public knowledge of this is still relatively small. Katalin Goencz of MedBillAssist in Stamford, CT discusses how this affects each of us and what we can do to protect ourselves.
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Articles
Identity Theft Programs Are Vital for Compliance and Sound Business
http://www.aishealth.com/Bnow/hbd080210.html
Medical Identity Theft – Facts for Consumers
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/idtheft/idt10.shtm
Medical Identity Theft
http://www.voluntarybenefitsmagazine.com/article-detail.php?issue=issue14&article=medical-identity
8/01/2010 Nurse Navigators – A New Patients Advocate
Navigating through the emotional, medical, social and financial process after being diagnosed with a serious disease is completely foreign to most people. The feeling of being alone, scared and confused is typical. Realizing just how intimidating this is, hospitals have started patient advocacy programs that enable patients with experts to navigate them from diagnosis to treatment and hopefully a cure.
7/04/10 – Wellness – Center for Healthy Living-Donna Guadisio Zeale
The enactment of the recent health reform act may be the just the catalyst needed to move Americans in the direction of taking personal responsibility for wellness. While it seems that Washington may have just discovered this approach to better utilization of health care services, hospitals like Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut, long ago realized this and launched very successful programs. Working with individuals and corporate employers in the area, they have helped to bring health awareness and proactive health care to a group of people not previously in the system. Donna Guadisio Zeale, Director of the Center for Healthy Living discusses their approach and plans for the future.
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Aftercare Tips for Patients Checking Out of the Hospital
“Hospitals tend to focus their efforts on the admissions process, because that’s when the patient is most sick,” said Dr. Mark V. Williams, one of the authors of the study. “The discharge process can be just as important but rarely gets the same level of attention.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/health/19patient.html
Patient Satisfaction: the Hospitalist's Role
Patient satisfaction is a highly desirable outcome of clinical care in the hospital and may even be an element of health status itself (1). A patient’s expression of satisfaction or dissatisfaction is a judgment on the quality of hospital care in all of its aspects. Whatever its strengths and limitations, patient satisfaction is an indicator that should be indispensable to the assessment of the quality of care in hospitals.
Outcomes of Care by Hospitalists, General Internists, and Family Physicians
The hospitalist model is rapidly altering the landscape for inpatient care in the United States, yet evidence about the clinical and economic outcomes of care by hospitalists is derived from a small number of single-hospital studies examining the practices of a few physicians.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/25/2589
Tests Show More Swine Flu Immunity in Older Folks
Tests Show More Swine Flu Immunity in Older Folks: New test results show what scientists have suspected — people in their 60′s and older have signs of greater immunity to the new swine flu virus.
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Bumpy Ride from Hospital to Home
Bumpy Ride from Hospital to Home – How many people know what to expect when they transition from the hospital to rehab or rehab to home? Filling a void, an advocate for the patients has teamed to create a new website that addresses these issues.
