Executive Briefing: Specialty Hospitalists
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5 Key Ways Specialty Hospitalists Help
Hospital-Physician Relationships
By Anuja Vaidya
H
ospitals are turning toward hospitalists to help them
address physician shortages and ever-growing patient volumes in the inpatient setting. In fact, in 2012,
hospitalists were found to be the second most-placed physician specialty, according to physician search company The
Medicus Firm.
There are a number of reasons for the growing popularity of
hospitalists. According to the Society of Hospital Medicine, hospitalists are physician and non-physician providers who provide
medical care for acutely ill patients in a hospital setting. They
are generally trained in internal medicine, general pediatrics or
family medicine.
Specialty hospitalists, however, are surgical specialists who work
exclusively in the hospital setting, taking care of patients in need
of emergent and urgent care, according to Gene Krumanocker,
COO of Delphi of TeamHealth, a hospitalist physician staffing
firm. Delphi of TeamHealth specializes in hospitalists providing
orthopedics, general surgery and obstetrics and gynecology services. Specialty hospitalists are typically on-call 24 hours a day
and provide emergency department call coverage for their specialty. They also perform surgeries, provide postoperative followup and provide inpatient consults.
For hospitals, Mr. Krumanocker says contracting specialty
hospitalists has obvious advantages, the largest one being in-
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