Program Administration

Co-Management is the shared responsibility, authority and accountability for the care of hospitalized patients. 

Hospitalists today serve in a variety of Co-Management capacities with many other hospital-based specialties, including critical care, cardiology, GI and liver disease, oncology, palliative care and neurology. When it comes to successfully co-managing patients, it is crucial that groups develop a comprehensive plan that accounts for the needs and capacities of all parties. 

5 Principles of Co-Management

1. Defined roles, lines of authority, responsibilities, and boundaries
2. Collaborative professional relationships with rules for managing conflict   
3. Equal standing and mutual respect between clinicians
4. Non-retaliatory open communication among all parties involved
5. Set metrics for review and evaluation

Member Resources On Co-Management

• Webinar: Co-Management on Trial: An Open Debate on Value in a post COVID World
• Co-Management White Paper
• The Role of the Medical Consultant Online Module

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The leadership of a hospitalist group plays a critical role in the culture, engagement, and overall success of the group.  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. 

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Since the COVID-19 incidents of violence against healthcare workers have increased, and yet many cases still go unreported.  Violence in healthcare may be the result of complex interactions between psychological, physiological and organizational determinants.  In this resource, SHM has compiled from hospital leaders across the country a range of interventions and steps to address violence prevention, response, support, and monitoring and continuous improvement. 

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Webinar: An Integrated Approach to Workplace Violence in Hospitals
Recorded in January 2024, this webinar shares one group’s emerging model for reducing, managing, and responding to violence against healthcare workers.

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Webinar: Mitigating Workplace Violence by Implementing a Patient Behavior Agreements Program
Recorded in December 2023, this webinar reviews risk factors for workplace violence and shares how patient behavior agreements can be one strategy to mitigate them.

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Webinar: Partnering with Patients, Families, and Your Hospital to Manage and Decrease Challenging Patient Encounters
Recorded in February 2023, this webinar discussion is led by a psychiatrist and a hospitalist who share a variety of individual provider and institutional strategies to decrease challenging patient encounters.

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Hospitalists use telemedicine to find innovative solutions to meet the complex staffing, coverage and patient care challenges in their communities. From coverage in low-volume facilities to expanding the reach of nocturnists, hospital medicine has been at the forefront of finding new ways to use technology to care for patients. In the current climate of rapidly changing reimbursement models, telemedicine can be an important tool for hospitalist groups to meet the needs of their providers and communities. SHM's resources are designed to help leaders plan and deploy telemedicine in their facilities. 

Member Resources On Telemedicine

• Medicare Reimbursement for Telehealth Services
• Telemedicine 101 for Hospital Medicine
• Telemedicine White Paper

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.

Collaboration, Not Calculation: A Qualitative Study of How Hospital Executives Value Hospital Medicine Groups

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.

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The State of Hospital Medicine Report

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.

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More Caring, Less Clicking

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.

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