Shm Staff

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2016 Pediatric Hospital Medicine Awards, who were recently recognized at the 2016 Pediatric Hospital Medicine meeting in Chicago. The awards are presented to pediatric hospitalists who make exemplary contributions to hospital medicine, quality improvement, and patient care.

The awards are presented in four categories:

Safety and Quality Improvement

Recipient: Kavita Parikh, MD, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Parikh is a member of the Value in Inpatient Pediatrics Network and has worked with the group to improve the care of community-acquired pneumonia. The group has enrolled more than 50 hospitals around the country and one international site to standardize care so that all children hospitalized with pneumonia can receive the same high-quality care, including the use of narrow-spectrum antibiotics.

Educational Achievement and Innovation

Recipient: H. Barrett Fromme, MD, University of Chicago

Dr. Fromme is well known as a leader in pediatric medical education and was instrumental in establishing the Pediatric National Nighttime Curriculum, which includes approximately 75 percent of all residency programs across the U.S. She also led the Advancing Pediatric Educator Excellence Teaching Program for hospitalists, which helps develop their teaching skills. Dr. Fromme has also been named a Master Educator at the University of Chicago Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators.

Research Excellence

Recipient: Derek Williams, MD, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville

Dr. Williams is a pediatric hospitalist whose research activities have focused on respiratory infections in hospitalized children. He has received multiple grants and awards from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and has served as the lead investigator at his institution for the CDC-sponsored study entitled Etiology of Pneumonia in the Community (EPIC), which has generated several publications, including in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Lifetime Achievement

Recipient: Ken Roberts, MD, chairman emeritus, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

While he is now retired, Dr. Roberts has served as a mentor to many pediatric hospitalists throughout his storied career and has more than 200 publications, including one in Pediatrics called “A Hospitalist Movement? Where to?”

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2016 Pediatric Hospital Medicine Awards, who were recently recognized at the 2016 Pediatric Hospital Medicine meeting in Chicago. The awards are presented to pediatric hospitalists who make exemplary contributions to hospital medicine, quality improvement, and patient care.

The awards are presented in four categories:

Safety and Quality Improvement

Recipient: Kavita Parikh, MD, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Parikh is a member of the Value in Inpatient Pediatrics Network and has worked with the group to improve the care of community-acquired pneumonia. The group has enrolled more than 50 hospitals around the country and one international site to standardize care so that all children hospitalized with pneumonia can receive the same high-quality care, including the use of narrow-spectrum antibiotics.

Educational Achievement and Innovation

Recipient: H. Barrett Fromme, MD, University of Chicago

Dr. Fromme is well known as a leader in pediatric medical education and was instrumental in establishing the Pediatric National Nighttime Curriculum, which includes approximately 75 percent of all residency programs across the U.S. She also led the Advancing Pediatric Educator Excellence Teaching Program for hospitalists, which helps develop their teaching skills. Dr. Fromme has also been named a Master Educator at the University of Chicago Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators.

Research Excellence

Recipient: Derek Williams, MD, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville

Dr. Williams is a pediatric hospitalist whose research activities have focused on respiratory infections in hospitalized children. He has received multiple grants and awards from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and has served as the lead investigator at his institution for the CDC-sponsored study entitled Etiology of Pneumonia in the Community (EPIC), which has generated several publications, including in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Lifetime Achievement

Recipient: Ken Roberts, MD, chairman emeritus, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

While he is now retired, Dr. Roberts has served as a mentor to many pediatric hospitalists throughout his storied career and has more than 200 publications, including one in Pediatrics called “A Hospitalist Movement? Where to?”

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2016 Pediatric Hospital Medicine Awards, who were recently recognized at the 2016 Pediatric Hospital Medicine meeting in Chicago. The awards are presented to pediatric hospitalists who make exemplary contributions to hospital medicine, quality improvement, and patient care.

The awards are presented in four categories:

Safety and Quality Improvement

Recipient: Kavita Parikh, MD, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Parikh is a member of the Value in Inpatient Pediatrics Network and has worked with the group to improve the care of community-acquired pneumonia. The group has enrolled more than 50 hospitals around the country and one international site to standardize care so that all children hospitalized with pneumonia can receive the same high-quality care, including the use of narrow-spectrum antibiotics.

Educational Achievement and Innovation

Recipient: H. Barrett Fromme, MD, University of Chicago

Dr. Fromme is well known as a leader in pediatric medical education and was instrumental in establishing the Pediatric National Nighttime Curriculum, which includes approximately 75 percent of all residency programs across the U.S. She also led the Advancing Pediatric Educator Excellence Teaching Program for hospitalists, which helps develop their teaching skills. Dr. Fromme has also been named a Master Educator at the University of Chicago Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators.

Research Excellence

Recipient: Derek Williams, MD, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville

Dr. Williams is a pediatric hospitalist whose research activities have focused on respiratory infections in hospitalized children. He has received multiple grants and awards from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and has served as the lead investigator at his institution for the CDC-sponsored study entitled Etiology of Pneumonia in the Community (EPIC), which has generated several publications, including in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Lifetime Achievement

Recipient: Ken Roberts, MD, chairman emeritus, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

While he is now retired, Dr. Roberts has served as a mentor to many pediatric hospitalists throughout his storied career and has more than 200 publications, including one in Pediatrics called “A Hospitalist Movement? Where to?”

In their landmark decision in the Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt case that challenged abortion restrictions put into place in the state of Texas, U.S. Supreme Court justices specifically cited an amicus brief submitted by the Society of Hospital Medicine.

Getting cited is a pretty big deal! It means that justices not only used what SHM wrote to inform their opinion, but also shows they gave it particular weight.

On June 27 in a 5-3 vote, the Court struck down both the admitting privileges and ambulatory surgical center requirements of the Texas law, finding that neither of these requirements provided sufficient medical benefits to justify the burdens imposed.

The brief, submitted by SHM in conjunction with the Society of OB/GYN Hospitalists last January, provided the Court with material to clarify obsolete impressions about how inpatient care currently transpires, how provider-to-provider transitions occur, and how admitting privileges work in real life.

Texas partially justified their law on views about site-to-site patient handoffs as unsafe and not in keeping with current care standards. However, as geographically based providers (hospitalists) know, care no longer arises in that manner and handoffs are not just the norm, but customary and safe.

SHM, however, did not weigh in on Constitutional questions, and did not take any stance on moral or ethical matters. SHM’s membership has diverse beliefs, and a position on this topic would be inappropriate.

In part, the SHM brief noted that:

“Admitting privileges are appropriate for physicians who regularly admit patients. But requiring physicians who specialize in outpatient procedures with low incidence of post-procedure complications, whether that specialty is podiatry or gynecology, to maintain privileges serves no medical purpose, is inconsistent with modern medicine, and is unnecessary to ensure continuity of care. Having a hospitalist serve as the admitting or attending physician does not deprive patients of quality inpatient or outpatient services.”

SHM’s amicus brief provides procedural clarification and informs the Court of how hospitalists function, but SHM emphasizes that it has not taken an ideological or ethical stance regarding the issue. SHM applauds the diversity of its membership, in background and in belief.

Regardless of procedure, modern medicine now has a presence in multiple locations with varied disciplines coordinating care. Hospitalists and other providers know handoffs are safe with outcomes equivalent to, or exceeding, prior norms. SHM felt duty-bound to correct the record for future reference and the purpose of precedent.

In their landmark decision in the Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt case that challenged abortion restrictions put into place in the state of Texas, U.S. Supreme Court justices specifically cited an amicus brief submitted by the Society of Hospital Medicine.

Getting cited is a pretty big deal! It means that justices not only used what SHM wrote to inform their opinion, but also shows they gave it particular weight.

On June 27 in a 5-3 vote, the Court struck down both the admitting privileges and ambulatory surgical center requirements of the Texas law, finding that neither of these requirements provided sufficient medical benefits to justify the burdens imposed.

The brief, submitted by SHM in conjunction with the Society of OB/GYN Hospitalists last January, provided the Court with material to clarify obsolete impressions about how inpatient care currently transpires, how provider-to-provider transitions occur, and how admitting privileges work in real life.

Texas partially justified their law on views about site-to-site patient handoffs as unsafe and not in keeping with current care standards. However, as geographically based providers (hospitalists) know, care no longer arises in that manner and handoffs are not just the norm, but customary and safe.

SHM, however, did not weigh in on Constitutional questions, and did not take any stance on moral or ethical matters. SHM’s membership has diverse beliefs, and a position on this topic would be inappropriate.

In part, the SHM brief noted that:

“Admitting privileges are appropriate for physicians who regularly admit patients. But requiring physicians who specialize in outpatient procedures with low incidence of post-procedure complications, whether that specialty is podiatry or gynecology, to maintain privileges serves no medical purpose, is inconsistent with modern medicine, and is unnecessary to ensure continuity of care. Having a hospitalist serve as the admitting or attending physician does not deprive patients of quality inpatient or outpatient services.”

SHM’s amicus brief provides procedural clarification and informs the Court of how hospitalists function, but SHM emphasizes that it has not taken an ideological or ethical stance regarding the issue. SHM applauds the diversity of its membership, in background and in belief.

Regardless of procedure, modern medicine now has a presence in multiple locations with varied disciplines coordinating care. Hospitalists and other providers know handoffs are safe with outcomes equivalent to, or exceeding, prior norms. SHM felt duty-bound to correct the record for future reference and the purpose of precedent.

In their landmark decision in the Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt case that challenged abortion restrictions put into place in the state of Texas, U.S. Supreme Court justices specifically cited an amicus brief submitted by the Society of Hospital Medicine.

Getting cited is a pretty big deal! It means that justices not only used what SHM wrote to inform their opinion, but also shows they gave it particular weight.

On June 27 in a 5-3 vote, the Court struck down both the admitting privileges and ambulatory surgical center requirements of the Texas law, finding that neither of these requirements provided sufficient medical benefits to justify the burdens imposed.

The brief, submitted by SHM in conjunction with the Society of OB/GYN Hospitalists last January, provided the Court with material to clarify obsolete impressions about how inpatient care currently transpires, how provider-to-provider transitions occur, and how admitting privileges work in real life.

Texas partially justified their law on views about site-to-site patient handoffs as unsafe and not in keeping with current care standards. However, as geographically based providers (hospitalists) know, care no longer arises in that manner and handoffs are not just the norm, but customary and safe.

SHM, however, did not weigh in on Constitutional questions, and did not take any stance on moral or ethical matters. SHM’s membership has diverse beliefs, and a position on this topic would be inappropriate.

In part, the SHM brief noted that:

“Admitting privileges are appropriate for physicians who regularly admit patients. But requiring physicians who specialize in outpatient procedures with low incidence of post-procedure complications, whether that specialty is podiatry or gynecology, to maintain privileges serves no medical purpose, is inconsistent with modern medicine, and is unnecessary to ensure continuity of care. Having a hospitalist serve as the admitting or attending physician does not deprive patients of quality inpatient or outpatient services.”

SHM’s amicus brief provides procedural clarification and informs the Court of how hospitalists function, but SHM emphasizes that it has not taken an ideological or ethical stance regarding the issue. SHM applauds the diversity of its membership, in background and in belief.

Regardless of procedure, modern medicine now has a presence in multiple locations with varied disciplines coordinating care. Hospitalists and other providers know handoffs are safe with outcomes equivalent to, or exceeding, prior norms. SHM felt duty-bound to correct the record for future reference and the purpose of precedent.