The Section of Hospital Medicine strives to create an inpatient system that provides high-quality, efficient, value-based, patient-centric care.
Examples of the clinical services we provide at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist:
- After-Hour Teaching Service (ATS): Responsible for teaching and supervising Internal Medicine residents during the evening and night shifts
Community Hospitalist Rotation (General Medicine High Point III Service): Designed to expose internal medicine residents to the work life of a community hospitalist. Residents work in a week-on/week-off model at High Point Medical Center.- General Medicine Winston II and High Point II: These are traditional teaching teams. Hospitalists are responsible for teaching and supervising internal medicine residents, interns and MS-3 and MS-4 students.
- Hematology/Oncology C Service: Responsible for the care of patients with an active/past diagnosis of a hematological or oncology disorder.
- Hospitalist at Home (H@H): Launched in December 2020, this new service allows for patients to be safely cared for at home with the use of telehealth technology and in-home visits by Wake Forest Baptist Health paramedics.
- Inpatient Rehabilitation Consult Service:Responsible for medicine consultations for those patients admitted to our inpatient rehabilitations unit.
- Intermediate Care Unit: In this step-down unit, a hospitalist is responsible for the care of patients from many areas, including the Emergency Department, Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, Intensive Care Unit and medical-surgical floors.
- Observation Unit: In this unit, a hospitalist is responsible for the care of those patients who meet observational status with the goal of reducing length of stay and improving the quality of care to our patients.
- Perioperative and Inpatient Consult Medicine Service: Responsible for the education of Internal Medicine residents related to perioperative medicine.
- Procedure Rotation: Designed to improve procedural competency of Internal Medicine residents.
- Rounder Service: A standard inpatient service where a hospitalist and an advanced practice provider work as a team to care for patients admitted to the hospital medicine service.
- Swing/Morning Service: Responsible for admitting patients from the Emergency Department and direct transfers from outside medical facilities.
Awards
FY2021
Sarah Kruyer, PA-C (Lexington Medical Center)
Outstanding APP at a Community Hospital
Brittany Habershaw, PA-C (Wilkes Medical Center)
Outstanding APP at a Community Hospital
Randy Conrad, MD (Lexington Medical Center)
Outstanding Physician at a Community Hospital
Jerry Pinkerton Jr, MD (Wilkes Medical Center)
Outstanding Physician at a Community Hospital
Brianna (Pearson) Haller, PA-C (Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center)
Outstanding APP at an Academic Hospital Setting
William Lippert, MD, MPH (Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center)
Outstanding Physician at an Academic Hospital Setting