Cogent Healthcare Offers Three New Internet Courses for the Practicing Hospitalist.Health/Medical Writers LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--Feb. 14, 2002 Cogent Healthcare, Inc. continues to expand its Continuing Medical Education continuing medical education See CME. (CME CME See: Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME See Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). ) programs for the practicing hospitalist hos·pi·tal·ist n. A physician, usually an internist, who specializes in the care of hospitalized patients. hospitalist clinicians via the Internet with three new courses: "Pain Management for the Hospitalized Patient," "Congestive Heart Failure congestive heart failure, inability of the heart to expel sufficient blood to keep pace with the metabolic demands of the body. In the healthy individual the heart can tolerate large increases of workload for a considerable length of time. in a Hospitalist Model," and "New Strategies for Inpatient and Outpatient Deep Vein Thrombosis A blood clot (thrombos) in a vein deep within the muscle, typically in the thigh or calf. It is caused by disease or the lack of activity such as sitting for hours at a computer screen. Management." These courses are available for physicians, nurses, and pharmacists at www.cogenthealthcare.com. The Postgraduate Institute of Medicine is the accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. CME Provider for these Cogent CME programs. "We are building a curriculum of topics that are of particular interest to physicians caring for patients in the hospital," said Michael Rovzar, M.D., project chair and vice president of physician education for Cogent Healthcare, Inc. "By offering an educational web site that is dedicated to 'raising the bar' of inpatient care delivery, Cogent Healthcare, Inc. hopes to attract clinicians who are interested in making a difference in the hospitalist movement." In the new course, "Pain Management for the Hospitalized Patient," Mark V. Williams, M.D., associate professor of medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, and David Gonzales, M.D., president, Monte Sol Medical Group, and hospitalist program director, St. Vincent Hospital, Santa Fe, New Mexico Santa Fe, more properly Santa Fé, (pronounced [ˈsænə feɪ] by natives, [ˌsænə ˈfeɪ] will explore the neurobiology Neurobiology Study of the development and function of the nervous system, with emphasis on how nerve cells generate and control behavior. The major goal of neurobiology is to explain at the molecular level how nerve cells differentiate and develop their involved in the perception of pain and the management techniques available to treat patients experiencing pain. The course is available for 1.5 hours of CME category 1 credit for physicians, 1.5 contact hours for pharmacists, and 1.7 contact hours for nurses. In "Congestive Heart Failure in a Hospitalist Model," Gregg Fonarow, M.D., associate professor of medicine, division of cardiology director, and cardiomyopathy Cardiomyopathy Definition Cardiomyopathy is a chronic disease of the heart muscle (myocardium), in which the muscle is abnormally enlarged, thickened, and/or stiffened. center director at UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , explores the issues and treatments for congestive heart failure, including the evaluation of patients in heart failure, therapeutic recommendations, and the uses of beta-blockers. The course is available for one hour of CME category 1 credit for physicians, one contact hour for pharmacists, and 1.6 contact hours for nurses. In "New Strategies for Inpatient and Outpatient Deep Vein Thrombosis Management," an updated version of a previous course, Geno Merli, M.D., of Thomas Jefferson University It began as Jefferson Medical College in 1824. On July 1, 1969 the institution officially became Thomas Jefferson University. The university is made up of three colleges:
Harbor-UCLA serves as the Level I Trauma Center for the South Bay area. , Torrance, California, will explore the issues and treatments for deep vein thrombosis, including the safety and efficacy of low molecular weight heparins. The course is available for one hour of CME category 1 credit for physicians, one contact hour for pharmacists, and one contact hour for nurses. These programs are supported by unrestricted educational grants from Purdue Pharma, GlaxoSmithKline, and Aventis Pharmaceuticals. The Cogent Healthcare, Inc. Medical Education Program is fully accredited by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine. Clinicians, including physicians, nurses, and pharmacists, who complete a course and submit the post-test and evaluation will be eligible for continuing education credit. The Cogent Healthcare, Inc. website address is www.cogenthealthcare.com. Cogent Healthcare, Inc. is located at 23282 Mill Creek Road, #300, Laguna Hills, CA, 92653; 949.699.6000. For more information about the CME programs, contact Dr. Michael Rovzar at rovzar.mike@cogenthealthcare.com. About Cogent Healthcare, Inc.: Cogent Healthcare, Inc. (www.cogenthealthcare.com) is a leading provider of services that improve the well being of hospitalized patients while reducing their associated costs through the creation and management of inpatient-based physician networks. Its vision is to improve care and efficiency by reducing variations in care, establishing best practices, identifying and removing barriers to efficient care, and measuring outcomes. To this end, the company provides comprehensive programs in clinical care staffing, communication, and data management that support the hospitalist physician in the delivery of inpatient care. Cogent Healthcare's programs are currently in 11 major markets throughout the United States. The company has contracts with more than 65 facilities including 155 hospitals with 1,300 referring primary care physicians, covering more than 2,000,000 lives. Cogent clients include most of the nation's largest health plans such as United Healthcare, Aetna, BlueCross/BlueShield, Humana, and Kaiser Permanente, plus leading hospitals and hospital systems such as Intermountain Healthcare, Baptist Health Systems in Florida and Texas and St. Vincent's Medical Center See also St. Vincent's Medical Center (Bridgeport) for the identically named hospital in Connecticut St. Vincent's Medical Center is located in Jacksonville, Florida, and follows the mission of the Daughters of Charity in providing for its patients with in Santa Fe. In addition to traditional hospitalist programs, the company has a program with Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, , which has 2.7 million members in Southern California, to provide hospitalists to handle emergency care sought by its members at non-Kaiser hospitals. In May 2000, Cogent Healthcare also launched the first Internet-based continuing medical educational program for hospitalist physicians. Its CME programs for physicians, nurses and pharmacists can be accessed at the company's website, www.cogenthealthcare.com. To extend its successful inpatient management model beyond the hospital walls, Cogent is developing a network of resources to enhance management throughout the continuum of care, addressing home care, sub-acute care, disease management and end-of-life issues. |
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