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Hospitalist Service
Contact: Namita Lakhia (860) 224-5661 #3
New Britain General campus
Hospitalists are attending physicians board-certified in internal medicine who specialize in treating hospitalized patients. Hospitalists transfer care to patients' primary care providers after discharge.
Many community physicians trust The Hospital of Central Connecticut's hospitalists to provide excellent care for their patients at the New Britain General and Bradley Memorial campuses.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut's hospitalists work on the medical floors, covering days, evenings and weekends. Seven serve as the principal physician educators of residents in the University of Connecticut Primary Care Residency Program.
How the service works
If you use the Hospitalist Service, one of our hospitalists will care for your patients. If you do not have admitting privileges at the hospital, your patient will automatically be cared for by the Hospitalist Service.
Your patient's hospitalist will communicate regularly with you about the patient's condition and treatment. You will be notified of your patient's discharge and given information he/she needs for follow-up care.
What we offer:
- High-quality, compassionate inpatient care at both campuses
- Comprehensive coverage of hospitalized patients, 24/7
- Complete admission, follow-up and discharge services
- Perioperative medicine consultation on patients undergoing surgery at HCC
- Attending MD available to be at the bedside 8 a.m.-10 p.m., multiple times if needed
- Close coordination with nurses, midlevel practitioners, care coordinators, and University of Connecticut School of Medicine residents
- Personal notification of primary care physician on change in patient status (critically ill, major surgery, death) and on admission or discharge, when appropriate
Recent improvements:
- >90% performance on core measures for MI, pneumonia and CHF
- >90% compliance with medication reconciliation
- Improved training and performance in patient satisfaction
- Information systems upgrades to correctly identify attending MD on each patient 24/7
- Automatic notification of primary care physician on day of admission.
- Discharge summary and/or discharge fax sent within 24 hours.
- Continued hospitalist program growth, with 48 primary care physicians as of spring 2008.
- Optional weekend coverage of admissions.
- Text paging capability to communicate with hospitalists.
Coming soon:
- Discharge summaries faxed within 24 hours (September 2008 with nuance voice recognition system)
- History and physicals dictated and faxed within 24 hours (January 2009)
- Intensive training of midlevel practitioners under direct hospitalist supervision
- Unit-based MD-RN multidisciplinary leadership teams (July 2008)
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