Project BOOST Underway and Accepting Applications

Project BOOST (Better Outcomes for Older adults through Safe Transitions), is now accepting applications to receive a year of mentoring and coaching from national experts to redesign your discharge process and improve patient safety and outcomes.

By improving discharge processes, Project BOOST aims to reduce 30-day readmission rates for general medicine patients, with particular focus on older adults. It is advised by a board recognized leaders in hospital medicine, care transitions, payers and regulatory agencies. The board is Chaired by Eric Coleman, MD and includes representatives from organizations...(cont.)

SHM is proud to introduce the launch of the newest blog –
Hospital Medicine Quick Hits by Dr. Danielle Scheurer, SHM's Web Editor

Endocarditis Update
Here are some interesting tidbits recently published from the largest prospective cohort of infective endocarditis ever collected (abstract). Causative organisms were Gram positive in 81-88% of cases (3-4% Gram negative, 1-2% fungi or yeast, and 8-13% other / culture negative). MSSA accounted for almost 1/3 of cases, and MRSA accounted for 36% of cases in those...(cont.)

Coming Soon – SHM’s Practice Management Blog!

SHM invites you to learn what some of our specialty’s best known and most respected experts have to say about practice management issues – and to join in the dialogue – via our new practice management blog, “The Hospitalist Leader: Perspectives on How to Administer a Successful Group.”

Bloggers will include: Rob Bessler, MD (Sound Inpatient Physicians), Robert Chang, MD (University of Michigan), Rusty Holman, MD (Cogent Healthcare) and John Nelson, MD (Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, WA/Nelson Flores Hospital Medicine Consultants).

Look for the new blog, coming later this month to the SHM website.