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tered Care
Hospitalist Service
Tyler Weaver, MD
joins our
WPH Hospitalist
team
Kathleen Divincenzo, MD
;
Kim Slight,
MD
;
Greg McCue, MD
; and
Ryan Bower, MD
.
Tyler Weaver, MD
enjoys getting to know patients and their families when they are
dealing with the challenges of hospitalization and critical illness.
“There is a lot of care coordination that goes on behind the scenes in order
to provide the best care possible for our patients at
WPH
. Medicine is not a one
man or woman show, it really does take a team to provide exceptional care.” –
Hospitalist
Kathleen Divincenzo, MD
Our hospitalist offer help to people in life threatening and dangerous situations
and truly make a difference within our facility. Seeing their work and the work of
our care team at
WPH
rapidly improves the lives of our patients in these situations.
Some may wonder why we offer a hospitalist program at
WPH
. There are several
great benefits that a hospitalist program brings to a community. First, it improves
patient care. Hospitalists bring extra experience and accessibility to patients
in the hospital. Hospitalist are much more easily available to take part in the
hospital care team, and to meet with patients and their families throughout the
day because they are not in an outpatient clinic. Hospitalists also bring additional
focused knowledge on common patient-care challenges and ICU level care.
Second, a hospitalist program revitalizes primary care in a community: it takes
the burden off night-time call and rounding in the hospital off of primary care
doctors and allows them to focus on taking care of patients in the clinic. Because
of this, we can improve retention and recruitment of primary care doctors for our
community.
Finally, hospitalists are not just doctors in the hospital, they are doctors for the
hospital. Hospitalist don’t just treat patients, but improve hospital processes. They
are active in improving how the hospital treats patients efficiently and effectively.
In turn, this creates and reinforces processes that result in excellent care.
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