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:
- Academic Nocturnist 1: Responsible for teaching and supervising Internal Medicine residents during the evening and night shifts
- General Medicine Winston II, High Point II and Nephrology: 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.
- Intermediate Care Unit: In this step-down unit, a hospitalist is responsible for the care of patients requiring a higher level of care outside of our closed intensive care unit.
- 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/AN2 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
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