Rising inpatient volume and occupancy exposed admission-triage bottlenecks at a large multisite academic medical center. The ...

Hospitalists are taking increasingly central roles in interfacility triage, transfer management, and capacity coordination.

Pediatric hospital medicine evolved from a staffing model focused on physician availability into a broad specialty shaped by ...

Pediatric sepsis remains a significant cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. Recent guidance emphasizes bundled care, ...

Founded in summer 2025, SHM’s Geriatrics Special Interest Group brings hospitalists together to advance age-friendly care for ...

SHM’s Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter supports hospitalists through professional networking, education, mentorship, ...

The 2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock represent the first major update since 2021 and incorporate new evidence across sepsis recognition ...

Hospitalists continue to grapple with the best multimodal way to control patient pain while maximizing the use of medications and other available choices. “Pain is uniquely personal and requires ...

As a quaternary academic referral center, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) is heavily reliant on transfers from referring hospitals and experiences a high volume of such ...

Over the past three decades, hospital medicine has evolved from a pragmatic response to system inefficiencies into one of the most influential and foundational domains in healthcare delivery. First ...

Hospitalists who entered the field of hospital medicine two or three decades ago may not have anticipated how their careers and the specialty would evolve over time. They have witnessed the expansion ...

In partnership with our members and SHM’s Board of Directors, we are exploring ways SHM can support the hospital medicine community as we collectively monitor the key factors outlined above and how ...