Emory Hospital Medicine
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9th Annual Southern Hospital Medicine Conference |
Emory Hospital Medicine is the largest academic hospital medicine program in the nation. With more than eighty physicians providing hospital medicine services at seven hospitals in the greater metropolitan Atlanta area, Emory hospitalists account for over 35,000 admissions a year, and total patient encounters exceed 125,000 annually.
Like most hospital medicine programs, we started our program at three hospitals in 1999 with eight physicians. Under the direction of a trail blazing physician director, the Emory Hospital Medicine grew quickly by adding more sites and physicians. Today, the Emory Hospital Medicine is the largest academic Hospital Medicine Program in the nation. The program has grown from three physicians to over 80 physicians.
We currently provide services to seven hospitals:
The hospitals we serve range from 100 beds to over 500 beds. With our daily service size ranging from 30 to over 100 patients at each hospital.
The growth of Hospital Medicine at Emory mirrors national experience as the fastest growing medical specialty in the U.S. However, our consistent pursuit of excellence has helped define our success as one of the best Hospital Medicine programs in the country. The CEO of the Society of Hospital Medicine, Dr. Larry Wellikson said, "Emory is in the top 2-3 programs nationally with only UCSF being ahead of them. The others in contention for the top five programs would be Cleveland Clinic, Harvard, Mayo, and University of Michigan, but Emory and UCSF are head and shoulders ahead of the nearest competitors. Emory has provided national SHM awards of Excellence winners (e.g. Lorenzo DiFrancesco for Excellence in Teaching, Neil Kripilani for Young Investigator) as well as many faculty for our national meeting. Emory's Dan Dressler was one of our senior editors for the just published Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine. Emory hospitalists have played key roles in helping SHM develop grant proposals to the Hartford Foundation, CDC and others to help better define hospital medicine. When SHM looks for talent for our vast number of projects, Emory is one of the first places we look."
To maintain our status as one of the premier Hospital Medicine programs in the country, we need to continue to recruit top talent, maintain the leadership capacity that we have built in our program, mentor younger physicians to help them focus on career interests, create opportunities for growth and development for all our faculty and focus like a laser on our three tier mission of Excellent Patient Care, Excellent Teaching and Cutting Edge Research.
In the Fall of 2005, a Palliative Care Consulting Service was launched at Emory Crawford Long and Emory University Hospitals. Led by Stephanie Grossman, MD, board-certified in Palliative Care, this palliative care initiative adds a new level of caring to the services offered by the Emory Section of Hospital Medicine.
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