Background: During the initial COVID-19 surge in the Spring of 2020, adequate inpatient bed availability was a key factor in determining the quality of the care provided to our patients. Timely and efficient daily discharges were vital to creating bed capacity and decompressing access points. At our institution, an 800-bed tertiary care medical center outside [...]

Background: Hospitalists today are tasked with maintaining quality care while also lowering health care costs. Length of stay and excess day reduction are surrogate markers of the efficiency of a hospitalist group by measuring lower utilization of resources. Despite this metric being attributed to hospitalists, there are many other departments that have key roles in [...]