New Internal Medicine Residency Program at a Community Hospital Improves Mortality Without Increasing the Cost or Length of Stay: A Two-Year Follow Up.

Authors

Javad Savoj, HCA Healthcare
Christine Mikhail
Rajesh Gulati, HCA HealthcareFollow
Napatkamon Ayutyanont, HCA HealthcareFollow
Alina Popa, HCA Healthcare

Division

Far West

Hospital

Riverside Community Hospital

Document Type

Poster

Publication Date

3-24-2019

Keywords

residency programs, fellowship and residency, quality of care, efficiency of care, mortality rate, readmission rate, complications

Disciplines

Health Services Administration | Internal Medicine | Medical Education | Medicine and Health Sciences | Therapeutics

Abstract

Opening new residency programs in community hospitals is one strategy to address to address physician shortage. Previous reports have shown better mortality outcomes in university based hospitals. However, less is known about teaching community hospitals. Disrupting well-established workflows in community hospitals is feared to cause an increased cost and possibly a slide in quality of care. Our aim was to assess the impact of starting a new Internal Medicine residency program in a Graduate Medical Education (GME) naive community hospital.

Publisher or Conference

Hospital Medicine Annual Conference 2019

Recommended Citation

Savoj J, Mikhail C, Gulati R, Popa A. New Internal Medicine Residency Program at a Community Hospital Improves Mortality Without Increasing the Cost or Length of Stay: A Two-Year Follow Up. Poster presented at: Hospital Medicine Annual Conference; March 24-27, 2019; National Harbor, MD.