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Author: tcousounis
Date: Feb 24, 2008 4:33 pm
As the PCLC faculty state, a medical director is not required, but an inpatient consult program will increase its chances for success by having a physician champion. Inpatient consult programs that start as "community service" programs (without a physician champion and without a dedicated source of patient service revenue) frequently fail to "mature" - eventually the hospital finds alternative means to deliver better end-of-life care (such as making use of hospitalists already on staff) that demand less "financial sponsorship".
Tim Cousounis, Mdvantage Palliative Care Group.
www.palliativecarebilling.com
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+ Re:Re:In-patient Palliative Care Program (by slmare on 02/28/2008)
Tim; Regarding your comment "making use of hospitalists already on staff" - has there been any successful hospitalist groups that specialize in Palliative Medicine. The reason I ask, is within our org. we have had a few hospitalists interested in joining our pall med service part time. What is your thought on the possibility of hospitalists having either their own palliative medicine physician within their group or maybe starting pall med hospitalist group (sorta like the upcoming "proceduralists, surgicalists, etc. etc.). May that be the wave of the future?

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