Background: Interhospital transfers (IHT) for additional care are a necessary, if high-risk, part of the healthcare system. Return transfers, in which the patient is returned to the referring hospital once higher-level care is no longer needed, are also a part of the healthcare system but are even more varied and less systematized and studied within [...]

Background: Providing patient centered care is a core value of all healthcare systems in our nation. However, having a code status discussion with patients and their families continues to be a challenging endeavor due to multiple factors such as competing priorities and time constraints, especially in the hospital setting. To improve code status discussion and [...]

Background: Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) often face frequent emergency department (ED) visits and hospital readmissions, primarily driven by challenges in pain management, stigma, and system-level barriers. Existing interventions at the CU Division of Hospital Medicine, such as cohorting patients with specific teams, multidisciplinary care conferences, and implementing care plans for high-utilizer patients, have [...]