Patient 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 is point-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.