The Hospitalist Patient Navigation® Model

Salient MD has developed, we believe, a unique response and approach to industry trends and challenges: the Hospitalist Patient Navigation® Model

In unprecedented fashion, this model (1) aligns hospital and hospitalist incentives (2) positions a hospital/health system for success with  population health management and VBP initiatives...

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Hospitalists and the Decline of Comprehensive Care

In response to an on-line article entitled "Hospitalists and the Decline of Comprehensive Care",  by Richard Gunderman, MD, Ph.D., published on 08/10/16 by the New England Journal of Medicine; we offer the following: 

The emergence of hospitalist medicine is attributable to the (1) growing complexity of operating...

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The Hospitalist Value Paradox

Hospitalist Programs are growing in cost and impact.  Hospitals are increasingly dependant on their Hospitalist Program. But executives face a legitimate “value paradox”; 1) Certain they can’t afford an unstable program, yet 2) Uncertain if they can afford a stable one!

The Salient Hospitalist Model is...

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Performance Metrics

“While the mania to measure health care outcomes and processes has produced some successes, a hospital medicine leader argues that the "measurement fad has spun out of control." In an opinion piece in the New York Times, UCSF's Robert Wachter, MD, details the unintended...

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