While hospitalist programs are increasingly popular and can lead to improved outcomes, only half of the approximately 5,000 hospitals in the United States have implemented these programs, according to ...

The chief executive officer of a large hospital system recently told me his hospitalist program was too expensive. He didn’t believe hospitalists’ case loads were sufficient to justify their ...

We demonstrated that variability existed in hospitalist workload at academic PHM programs. We found considerable variation in the workload per hospitalist (large ranges and standard deviations), as ...

Hospitalists are physicians specially trained in the care of hospitalized patients. In critical access hospitals (CAHs), the annual cost of a physician-based hospitalist program is approximately $1M.

Its programs are 30 percent more effective in lowering costs and improving quality than the average results of hospitalist programs, as reported by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

GREENVILLE, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ob Hospitalist Group (OBHG), the nation’s largest and only dedicated provider of customized obstetric (OB) hospitalist programs, is celebrating several major ...

Kohlberg & Co. acquired Ob Hospitalist Group, which provides customized obstetric hospitalist programs, from Gryphon Investors. Ob Hospitalist’s management team will stay with the company and retain a ...

Summit Partners has made a minority equity investment in OB Hospitalist Group Inc., a provider of Ob/Gyn hospitalist services to hospitals across the United States. No financial terms were disclosed.

A little-known program at two Grand Junction hospitals is resulting in some good paybacks. St. Mary's Hospital and Community Hospital each run hospitalist programs. That means a medical doctor is ...