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 ...

David Kendrick, PA-C, MPAS, is a Physician Assistant at the University of Utah Hospital. As a Hospitalist Physician Assistant, his clinical interest include that of caring for a variety of ...

Canton, Ohio-based Emergency Medicine Physicians is teaming up with New York City-based healthcare investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe to establish US Acute Care Solutions, a majority ...

Working alongside physicians, Bill Mahaffy has harvested arteries and treated patients in cardiac-care units, but he's not a physician; he's a physician assistant (PA), an occupation that is expected ...

There is unprecedented demand for physician assistants as insurance payment and the Affordable Care Act encourage a team-based approach to managing the care of patient populations. A snapshot of this ...

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 ...