Hospitalist-Acute Care Specialists

Hospitalist-Acute Care Specialists is the discipline concerned with the medical care of acutely ill hospitalized patients. Physicians whose primary professional focus is hospital medicine are called hospitalists; this type of medical practice has extended beyond the US into Canada. The practical effect of the hospitalist is to act as transition coordinator and case manager, due to the tremendous growth in medical knowledge and resultant number of medical specialists.

The term hospitalist was first coined by Robert Wachter and Lee Goldman in a 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article. Hospitalist activities may include patient care, teaching, research, and leadership related to hospital care. Hospital medicine, like emergency medicine, is a specialty organized around a site of care (the hospital).

SIPP Hospitalists:

Shye Wortman, MD - Director of In-Patient Medicine
Louis Emmer, MD - Associate Director/RUMC
Nirupama Parikh, MD - Associate Director/SIUH
Akiva Bergman, MD
Eliyahu Kopstick, DO
Harold Milstein, MD
Neven Nassif, MD
Alla Plotkina, MD