Hospitalist Roles:

As an independent Hospitalist services, our roles are as follows:

a) Participate with the ER doctor in the decision making process of whether to admit a patient or not via the ED based on Milliman and Robinson or Interqual Criteria for acute inpatient hospitalization. 

b) Should a decision be made, not to admit the patient, this will be captioned as a ED discharge.

c) Actively Triage the patients;

  to the office via the mobile care management team,

  to home care via the Hospital at home group,

 directly to the skilled nursing facilities via the Skill Nursing Home group.

c) Admit patients according to set guidelines and best practices.

d) Manage the patients while hospitalized.

e) Ensure an acceptable length of stay.

f)  Manage the appropriate utilization of consultants physicians based on acceptable guidelines and best practices.

g) Efficiently utilize the hospital resources for excellent patient outcome.

h) Transfer care at discharge via the electronic medical record to the receiving provider at all time.

i) Follow up the result of any test ordered for the ER discharged patient and address any abnormality thereof with the PCP or the patient.

j) Available in our hospitals from 7 am to 12 midnight 7 days a week to actively participate in the care of the patient in the ER.