Meeting
Abstract Number: 233
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Current staffing models cannot deliver the benefits of hospital medicine to the 1300 critical access hospitals (CAHs) located throughout the rural United States. Staffing each CAH with local hospitalists would require at least 5500 hospitalists (more than 10% of the workforce), to cover less than 2% of the hospitalized population. A “virtual hospitalist” program […]