Background: For 6 months in 2018, a major quaternary-care teaching hospital underwent closure of operating rooms (OR) and cardiac catheterization laboratory (CCL) due to flooding/sterilization issues and planned upgrades. Surgery and interventional cardiology trainees were reassigned to other teaching hospital sites of Yale School of Medicine, with the anticipated impact on Medicine/subspecialties not fully known. [...]

Background: The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)’s Quality Improvement (QI) Special Interest Group’s (QI SIG) mission is “to create and maintain a community that promotes QI by connecting QI enthusiasts to each other and the resources necessary to develop and hone QI skills.” During this year, without in-person local or national meetings as opportunities to [...]

Case Presentation: A 52-year-old male with type-2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and tobacco use presented to the emergency department due to chest pain radiating to the left shoulder that began 24-hours prior. Upon arrival, he was afebrile, heart rate was 71 bpm, blood pressure was elevated to 193/117 mm Hg and had a normal oxygen saturation [...]