Core of Acute Inpatient Medicine Group in Denver Joins IPC -- The Hospitalist Company.Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers DENVER--(BW HealthWire)--May 9, 2001 Nine of the ten healthcare professionals affiliated with Denver's Acute Inpatient inpatient /in·pa·tient/ (in´pa-shent) a patient who comes to a hospital or other health care facility for diagnosis or treatment that requires an overnight stay. in·pa·tient n. Medicine (AIM) Group have joined IPC (1) (InterProcess Communication) The exchange of data between one program and another either within the same computer or over a network. It implies a protocol that guarantees a response to a request. -- The Hospitalist hos·pi·tal·ist n. A physician, usually an internist, who specializes in the care of hospitalized patients. hospitalist Company, effective immediately. Joining the IPC team are four full-time full-time adj. Employed for or involving a standard number of hours of working time: a full-time administrative assistant. full physicians, three full-time nurse practitioners nurse practitioner n. Abbr. NP A registered nurse with special training for providing primary health care, including many tasks customarily performed by a physician. and two part-time physicians, all of who provide hospitalist services at Porter Adventist Hospital and Littleton Hospital in Littleton. Hospitalists are acute-care specialists who focus on a patient's hospital care from time of admission to discharge. These doctors work in close consultation with the primary care physician to manage the entire inpatient episode of care. Advantages to the patient of having a hospitalist include better coordination of care, on-site availability of the physician and the physician's deep understanding and practice of inpatient medicine. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Michael McMillan, M.D., one of the founding partners of AIM and currently the chief of the medical staff at Porter and Littleton Hospitals, one of the things that most attracted him and his colleagues to IPC was the "beautiful marriage of well-known physicians in the area with IPC's incredible technology. "Being part of IPC and having their well-respected infrastructure and technology to support us allows me to spend more time doing what I should do -- attending to patients," he said. "Through the IPC-Link(R) technology we will be able to communicate frequently, quickly and effectively with the patient's primary care physician. IPC also has a host of well-tested systems and resources in place which benefit both the patient and the physician, such as their team of nurses who provide phone follow-up follow-up, n the process of monitoring the progress of a patient after a period of active treatment. follow-up subsequent. follow-up plan to discharged patients." IPC has been active in the Denver market since August 2000. In addition, the company has practices locations in Chicago, Houston, Dallas/Ft. Worth, St. Louis, Phoenix and Tucson. Collectively, these practices admit over 10,000 new patients a month and manage more than $1 billion of healthcare expenditures annually. IPC currently employs more than 150 physicians and works with more than 4,000 referring physicians and over 1,000 health plans nationwide. IPC's home office is located in North Hollywood, Calif. Information may be obtained at www.ipcm.com. |
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