Hospitalist
A Patient-Centered. Higher-Quality Care. Data-centric, Safer. Experienced.
QMC is committed to the comprehensive care of hospitalized patients from diagnosis to discharge—and beyond.
When you join the QMC Team you become a member of a unified and supportive hospital medicine practice group that prides itself on peer supports, mentor partnerships, and communication.
As a QMC hospitalist, our network reduces your risks as an individual. You become part of our team of groundbreakers in hospital medicine. Our methods produce shorter lengths of stay, lower cost, and encourage better medical outcomes for the acutely ill. We strive to focus on the importance of the hospital process and devote time to improving the overall patient experience and quality of care.
The experienced team and data-centric policies and resources that we share with all QMC hospitalists lead to reliable and consistent top levels of function.
These consistent functions help our team grow and curate the highest-caliber clinicians who consider hospital medicine to be a calling as much as a career.
Responsibilities of our
QMC Hospitalists
- Coordinate all hospital services for each member
- Anticipate
post discharge needs and discharge planning - Conduct AM patient discharges to allow for proper coordination of
post discharge care - Consultative services for surgical and subspecialty patients
- Keen attention to patient care-taker needs
- Collaborate with par specialists and ancillary providers
- Facilitate transitions in care through clear communication
- Help manage large, challenging populations and balance overworked medical staff, making them invaluable within the system
- Reduce readmissions
- Appropriate use of Observations
- Ease the burden on private practice specialists and improve inpatient care
- ER Diversions
- Improve length of stay
- Improve ED throughput
- Improve documentation practices
- Reduce unnecessary consults
- Vested interest
- Effective discharge planning
- Efficiency in patient screenings
- Timeliness of psychiatric consults
- Risk Stratification
- Real-Time coordination with Health Plan Case
- Appropriate utilization of post-acute services
- Arranging physician visits at home where appropriate
The QMC Team of Hospitalist Can Assist with The Following:
- Coordinating all Hospital Services for Each Patient
- Consulting with the Emergency Room Physician
- Expediting Care Management Services
- Placing Discharge Orders
- Placing Transfer Orders to a Skilled Nursing Facility
- Placing Orders for any Ancillary Tests or Services and Including the Applicable Health Plan’s Case Management Staff
- Placing Orders for Any Prescriptions
- Communicating with Health Plan’s Health Care Services/Care Management Teams
- Producing Discharge Summaries