Hospital medicine (hospitalist care)

Hospitalists are doctors who focus on the general medical care of patients in the hospital.

During their hospital stay, many patients are referred to a hospitalist by their primary care doctor. When the patients leave the hospital, they return to the care of their primary doctor.

Hospitalists also care for patients in the hospital who have no primary doctor.

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Locations

Allina hospitals

Allina Medical Clinic - Abbott Northwestern Hospitalist Service

Allina Medical Clinic - Unity Hospital Doctors

Cambridge Medical Center: Hospitalist services

Mercy Hospital: Midwest Internal Medicine Hospitalists Group

Mercy Hospital: Pediatric hospitalist service

First published: 04/29/2008
Last updated: 04/29/2008

Reviewed by: Neal Buddensiek, MD, Allina Medical Clinic - Abbott Northwestern Hospitalist Service