Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., has launched a program to use surgical hospitalists, or surgicalists, to help serve the surgical needs of its emergency department, according to a report in the Nashville Business Journal.
Surgicalists are general surgeons that are available on-site during the hospital’s daytime hours and are on-call for night and weekend hours, according to the report. Baptist officials say that the surgicalists help to reduce wait times between consultation and a procedure, and they follow patients from the operating room to inpatient care to discharge.
Read the Business Journal’s report on Baptist Hospital’s surgicalist program.
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