The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) is a medical society comprised of hospitalists that exists to promote exceptional care for hospitalized patients.
Hospital medicine group leaders play a critical role in the culture, engagement, and overall success of the group. Today’s leaders face a unique set of challenges in an ever-changing healthcare environment with increasing financial pressures and increasingly large teams to manage. SHM’s resources give leaders the tool to advocate on behalf of their groups, effectively manage teams, and adapt and innovate in the complex hospital environment.
Across the country, hospital medicine groups are under increasing pressure to deliver effective and efficient patient care with continuously declining resources. Group leaders can also face heightened expectations from the C-suite to achieve improved clinical and financial outcomes. The SHM Practice Management Committee created Advocating on Behalf of Your Hospital Medicine Group: Elevating Your Group Impact to serve as a guide for group leaders to successfully advocate for their teams on issues such as schedule, workload, support, and well-being.
Defining the value of hospital medicine is an ever-present challenge. As the specialty continues to evolve and change, hospital medicine leaders will be asked to continually demonstrate the value, financial and otherwise, of their groups. This is particularly salient as hospitalists increasingly do activities that may not be reimbursed at sufficient rates or at all by payers. Making the case for the value of hospital medicine practice is crucial when negotiating with hospitals for support for the group.
This original study conducted by SHM members provides insight into the current attitudes and beliefs of hospital executives regarding the value of contributions made by HMGs. Learn what metrics executives value most and the challenges hospitalists face in measuring value financially.
With this extensive look into hospital medicine group configuration and operation nationwide, the State of Hospital Medicine Report contains the data group leaders need to make the best case to hospital leaders about the value of hospital medicine practice.
SHM’s Healthcare Information Technology Special Interest Group identified five areas related to their EMR systems, in which suggested changes could positively impact the daily work of hospitalists. Learn more about their evidence-based recommendations to optimize the user experience.
This resource provides guidance on leadership structures for hospital medicine groups, including a checklist to design a program, roles and responsibilities for leaders, and operations that leadership structures should support.
Convene with top minds in hospital medicine and gain the tools, confidence, and strategies to lead effectively. This dynamic, high-impact event will give you the tools to apply in this complex and ever changing environment.
This webinar series brings together experts from across the country to cover Hospital Medicine’s most pressing operational issues. Topics covered include scheduling and staffing structures, use of AI, mitigating administrative harm, hospitalist wellbeing, and more. SHM members receive free access to recordings of webinars on SHM Learning.
Do you manage multiple hospitalist practice sites within the same health system and want to connect with peers to collaborate on solving the unique challenges you face as a multisite leader? Join SHM for this annual immersive, in-person event that brings together multisite group leaders to learn from each other and address the most-pressing challenges they face today. This meeting is open to anyone who manages multisite practices, including clinical and non-clinical leaders.