Our faculty members provide patient care through UNMC's primary clinical partner, Nebraska Medicine.
Our faculty members fulfill several roles in the inpatient medical units that include teaching resident services, attending to non-resident services, and providing medical consultation and surgical co-management to patients on non-medicine services. Additionally, faculty members also staff several service lines with unique characteristics and patient focus areas, such as Point of Care Ultrasound Testing and Perioperative Services.
Additional support provided by our hospitalists includes:
expertise in hospital care
familiarity with hospital resources, services, and departments
help to facilitate post-hospital care when patients are discharged
improved quality, continuity, and efficiency of care
Patient Services
Admit and Triage Service
Perioperative Services
Point of Care Ultrasound
Tower Based Rounds
Our faculty and trainees provide care as hospitalists through the Nebraska Medicine Emergency Department and other ancillary services to adequately distribute patients. Admit and Triage is designed to systematically prioritize patients by using triage acuity methods to improve the quality and efficiency of care.
Hospital Medicine provides perioperative co-management to Orthopedic Surgery, Neurosurgery, and Vascular Surgery patients.
Hospital Medicine physicians staff the preoperative evaluation and care clinic (PECC) Mondays through Fridays alongside Anesthesiology. Physicians and advanced practice providers staff our Surgical Co-Management Service, which provides medical care for patients hospitalized after surgery.
In addition, Hospital Medicine, along with Orthopedic Surgery and Trauma Surgery, employs a formal protocol to care for patients with fragility hip fractures.
One modality enhancing the effectiveness of Nebraska Medicine hospitalists ispoint-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). Approximately 30 hospitalist faculty and 5 APPs have been trained since 2016. Faculty are provided longitudinal support through a combination of workshops, mentored scanning, online learning, high fidelity simulation, and asynchronous image review and feedback. Both traditional cart-based machines and handheld devices are available to maximize availability and portability. POCUS adds another tool the helps our clinicians provide exceptional care to our patients.
Our faculty members, including hospitalists and advanced practice providers, provide Tower Based Rounds in inpatient units through UNMC's primary clinical partner, Nebraska Medicine. Tower Based Rounding is effective because the multi-disciplinary team of hospitalists focuses on geographic assignments, and we offer disease-specific specializations including, oncology, specialty-based, general med-surgery and others.
With Tower Based Rounding, Hospital Medicine achieves better metrics including, early discharge rates and improved patient satisfaction scores.
Patients are discussed in-depth and one by one, with the conversations taking place -outside the patient’s room.
The practice promotes 1:1 resident teachings during rounds.
