IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. (Nasdaq:IPCM), a leading national
hospitalist physician practice company, announced today that the third
cohort of its Practice Group Leaders have successfully completed the
Fellowship in Hospitalist Leadership from the University of California,
San Francisco (UCSF) Division of Hospital Medicine. A new group of 40
IPC physicians also started in the Fellowship program. Anticipated
graduation for this class is November 2014, at which time there will be
approximately 150 graduates of the IPC-UCSF Fellowship in a clinical
leadership position in the company.
The Fellowship, a unique partnership between IPC and UCSF, is an
intensive one-year training and education program designed to develop
hospitalist leadership skills, with the goal of improving the quality of
patient care and the efficiency of the healthcare delivery system.
Graduating Fellows participated in a variety of learning modalities,
including core program seminars, executive coaching sessions, webinars
and on-site meetings.
Adam Singer, MD, Chairman and CEO of IPC The Hospitalist Company, said,
“Graduates of this Fellowship program are equipped with the skills to
lead change, both within and outside their organization. By partnering
with their facilities to target clinical outcomes and enhance the
patient experience, these graduates are providing the physician
leadership that is so urgently needed in this era of healthcare reform.”
An important feature of the program is the mentored implementation
project. Fellows select a key area in their own facility and, working
with UCSF program faculty and their facility stakeholders, develop and
execute a plan for improvement with measurable results. Topics addressed
by graduating Fellows this year include reducing readmissions,
decreasing polypharmacy, optimizing glycemic control, enhancing patient
satisfaction, establishing an accredited Chest Pain Center, improving
length of stay and optimizing ER throughput.
Robert Wachter, M.D., who coined the term ‘hospitalist’ in the New
England Journal of Medicine in 1996 and is the Chief of UCSF’s
Division of Hospital Medicine, added, “The world of healthcare is
rapidly moving to one driven by value: quality divided by cost. Seeing
the projects that our graduating Fellows have taken on is both
gratifying and impressive – a clear demonstration that they have
developed the knowledge and skills to improve the quality of care at
their facilities. We believe our graduating Fellows are in a position to
lead efforts at their facilities to improve value and to inspire others
to do the same.” Wachter helped launch the Fellowship four years ago,
along with fellow UCSF hospitalists Arpana Vidyarthi, M.D. and Niraj
Sehgal, M.D., MPH. Dr. Sehgal now directs the program.
About IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc.
IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. (Nasdaq:IPCM) is a leading physician
group practice company focused on the delivery of hospitalist medicine
and related facility-based services. IPC’s physicians and affiliated
providers practice in over 350 hospitals and 800 post-acute care
facilities in 28 states. The Company offers its 1,500 dedicated
clinicians the comprehensive training, information technology, and
management support systems necessary to improve the quality and reduce
the cost of patient care in the facilities it serves. For more
information, visit the IPC website at www.hospitalist.com.
About the UCSF Center for the Health Professions
The mission of the UCSF Center for the Health Professions is to
transform health care through workforce research and leadership
development. Since 1992, the Center has offered solutions-driven
approaches to the toughest health care challenges through three areas of
focus: Leadership Programs, to empower change agents at every level and
within all sectors of the health care system; Research, to understand
today’s workforce issues and design actionable strategies to solve them;
and Consulting Services, to creatively and collaboratively address
individual and organizational needs. Learn more about the Center at http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/.
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