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RELEASE Peninsula Hospital Center Remains Focused on the Future
with Ground Breaking Hospitalist Program
On April 18, 2007, Peninsula
Hospital Center, affiliate of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, received
approval from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine Educational
Consortium (NCYOMEC), its academic sponsor, to initiate a fellowship in
Hospitalist Medicine. Hospitalist medicine, an emerging specialty, is
the discipline concerned with the general
medical
care of
hospitalized patients and a hospitalist’s primary professional focus is
hospital medicine. This innovative osteopathic graduate medical training
program is the first of its kind in the New York area and indeed, one of the
first in the nation. “This is a wonderful opportunity to place Peninsula
Hospital Center at the forefront of academic medicine”, says Dr. Peter
Galvin, Peninsula Hospital Center’s Chief Medical Officer, who is highly
supportive of this new program.
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Shown in
photo: Valeriy Kayrov, D.O. (left) is shown with Peter A.. Guiney,
D.O., Director, Medical Education and Director, Family Practice
Residency Program at PHC. Dr. Kayrov Dr. Kayrov, a highly regarded
nationally-recognized graduate of PHC’s Family Practice Residency Program,
has been chosen to direct the pioneering Fellowship Program at the Hospital
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The intent of this innovative
educational program is to draw primary care physicians to the Hospital
Center for education while at the same time, improving care for hospitalized
patients. Peninsula Hospital Center instituted its own hospitalist program
in early 2006 – a program which has proven to be very successful - allowing
for all-day medical supervision of patients who either have no doctor, or
whose private doctor has requested that these full time hospitalist
specialists care for their patients. This has resulted in greater attending
physician patient contact, as well as increased supervision of resident
training. In other words, there are Board Certified full-time physicians
“in house every day. Because hospitalist physicians do not leave the
hospital after making rounds, they are available all day to attend to
patients and to participate in the Hospital Center’s newly implemented Rapid
Response Team, a team which facilitates near instant bedside attendance for
medical emergencies. Recent studies have shown that increased response time
produces improvement in hospital patient outcomes. Martin A. Grossman,
M.D., Director of the Department of Medicine since July, 2006,
enthusiastically endorses this new collaborative initiative between the
Department of Medicine and the Family Practice Residency Program. “This
program has been instrumental in improving outcomes, patient satisfaction
and decreasing the time necessary for patients to remain in the hospital”,
states Dr. Grossman. “This, of course, allows our patients to return back
to the community to resume their normal lives after a stay in the
hospital.” The program has doubled in size over the last year to include
the full time employment of four hospitalist physicians with a fifth
position recently approved.
Peninsula Hospital Center has
long recognized the challenges associated with the responsibility of caring
for the disproportionate number of elderly, frail nursing home patients as
well as the underserved population in the area. By meeting this challenge
pro-actively and adding full time board-certified hospitalists who are
concerned only with the challenging care of these patients, the Hospital
Center expects to see improvements in many of the indicators cited in
recently published 2005 data surveys. With their special training in quality
measures, these doctors on a daily basis are addressing many of the very
issues evaluated by such research surveys. “As hospital medicine becomes
more and more complex with the advances in technology and medical
breakthroughs, specialized training programs will become integral to
physician education. Greater scrutiny by regulatory agencies and higher
standards of care will require more hospitals to follow Peninsula Hospital
Center’s lead and actively embrace such hospitalist programs,” states Peter
A. Guiney, DO, Director, Family Practice Residency Program. The recent
recognition of PHC as a leader in the “Hospitalist movement” by the New York
College of Osteopathic Medicine is further assurance that the Hospital
Center is meeting today’s healthcare challenges – and those of tomorrow.
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In
an effort to better train the physicians of tomorrow and bring you the best
in quality health care, Peninsula Hospital Center serves as a training site
for numerous medical schools. Your physician may serve as a
mentor/instructor to a medical student, supervising this education process.
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