Salem Hospital Announces Changes to Hospitalist Program

The changes come from recommendations made by a consulting firm, according to Norman Gruber, president and CEO
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April 12, 2011 – Salem Hospital has implemented changes to its hospitalist program based on recommendations from a consulting firm that’s been advising the hospital on how to restructure its Willamette Health Partners (WHP) program.
 
Norman Gruber, president and CEO, announced the following changes:
 
  • The WHP hospitalists will no longer be part of Willamette Health Partners, instead the program will be part of Salem Hospital.
  • The WHP hospitalists will be re-named Salem Health Hospitalists
  • The Salem Health hospitalists will be under the guidance of Chief Nursing Officer, Marty Enriquez, instead of Dr. Judy Marvin. Dr. Ismeth Abbas and Dr. Mathew Miller will continue in the leadership role as medical director and associate medical director, respectively.
  • The program manager position will be replaced by two positions – an RN clinical coordinator and an administrative assistant. The RN clinical coordinator will support the hospitalist program related to patient care and the administrative assistant will support the hospitalist program in their non-clinical needs.
 
“We plan to maintain the program goals, and there will be ongoing communication with various departments to have explicit documentation on the hospitalists role in patient care in various scenarios of admission and consultative management,” according to the announcement from Gruber.

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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 10:03.

Yikes, if i worked there I would run like the wind. Doctors reporting to a nurse. No way.

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 23:59.

I can see at least two very good reasons for this approach from the hospital's POV.

1. RNs are cheaper.
2. Hospitals don't want administrators who sympathize too much with the physicians.

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 17:19.

OK. The hospitalists (MD) are going to be "guided" by the CNO.

I predict a very rocky time.

And well it should be.

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 15:03.

so the physicians will have to be subservient to a nurse. No thanks.

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