Overview
Greenwich Hospital is among the growing number of hospitals nationwide offering a hospitalist program to ensure patients receive the highest caliber of care during their hospital stay.

What is a hospitalist?
A hospitalist is a physician who specializes in the care of hospitalized patients. Greenwich Hospital's hospitalist services feature a team of full-time internal medicine physicians. They work closely with the patient's primary care physician to make sure patients receive the best possible care during their hospital stay.

What are the benefits to patients?

• The hospitalist's unique focus on inpatient and acute care is designed to reduce medical complications, hasten recovery, shorten hospital stays, and achieve better overall outcomes.
• Hospitalists are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to care for patients and answer questions about the care plan. They can respond to emergencies and quickly address a patient's changing medical needs. Because they are hospital-based, they can promptly follow-up on results and adjust the treatment plan when necessary.
• Hospitalists coordinate all aspects of patient care during hospitalization. They schedule tests, prescribe medications and arrange for consultations with specialists. As part of an interdisciplinary team, they work with physical therapists, case managers, respiratory therapists, dieticians, nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Why do hospitalists, instead of private physicians, care for patients?

• A hospitalist may manage the care of a patient at the request of the patient's primary care physician. Physicians specializing in internal medicine and cardiology have contracted with Greenwich Hospital for hospitalist services.
• Hospitalists also may care for patients who either do not have a private physician, or whose private physician is not affiliated with Greenwich Hospital.

What happens when hospitalist patients leave the hospital?
Upon discharge from the hospital, the hospitalist will contact the patient's primary care physician to discuss further treatment and arrange for follow-up care. Primary care physicians receive a detailed report with the patient's hospital records and medications. Hospitalists also help patients who do not have a private doctor to arrange for follow-up care with a primary care physician.

Our Hospitalists

Greenwich Hospital Hospitalist Services Phone: (203) 863-3685