Division of Hospital Medicine Service Lines
The faculty of the Division of Hospital Medicine work across four service lines at OHSU Hospital, Hillsboro Medical Center and the Portland VA Medical Center. We provide direct patient care, teaching and research to improve care for hospitalized patients.
Our service lines include:
Medicine Teaching Service
The Medicine Teaching Service works with residents, medical students, advanced practice providers, physician assistant students and our own faculty to ensure our trainees become the best physicians and physician assistants possible.
The MTS includes:
- Systems, Practice and Rapid Improvement in Knowledge (SPARK) Rounds, a quality improvement program that gives teams personalized practice data to help them understand cases and improve their skills and the quality of care they provide.
- Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Rounds, where our POCUS faculty review clinical cases of POCUS use and teach our teams how to best use the technology. The review includes feedback on the images collected and how to apply the images to clinical cases.
MTS training programs
We train internal medicine residents, medical students and physician associates through our six patient care teams. These include an attending physician, resident, intern and one to two students.
Each team cares for 10 patients. Faculty guide learners in ways appropriate for their education level to help them become competent, independent physicians.
Medicine Teaching Service leadership
Bailey Pope, M.D., is the medical director of the Medicine Training Service. She is also an OASIS academic adviser and the internal medicine residency director of learning and remediation. Her teaching interests include mentoring and developing compassionate, thoughtful physicians.
Clinical Hospitalist Service
The Clinical Hospitalist Service (CHS) is the direct care service for the Division of Hospital Medicine. Attending and advanced practice CHS providers offer leading-edge clinical care for OHSU's hospitalized patients.
CHS clinical care
Our faculty care for general medicine patients and patients with:
- Advanced heart failure, including those with a left ventricular assist device, heart transplant or other advanced cardiac therapy
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Orthopedic hip and upper extremity fractures
- Solid tumor cancers (including those involving inpatient chemotherapy)
Our faculty have specialized knowledge of the medications and other treatments these patients require. We collaborate with disciplines across the School of Medicine, including through supporting clinical trials for these co-management populations.
Clinical Hospitalist Service education
CHS faculty actively engage in educating and mentoring medical students completing sub-internships and physician associate students during their clinical training. Faculty provide hands-on teaching in inpatient medicine, supervise patient care activities and support learners in developing clinical reasoning, diagnostic and communication skills within a hospital setting.
Program leadership
Angela E. Alday, M.D., is the section chief and oversees the Clinical Hospitalist Service. Her academic interests include hospitalist and hospital system operations, capacity management, faculty mentorship and quality improvement.
Oncology Hospitalist Service
The Oncology Hospitalist Service cares for lymphoma and myeloma patients hospitalized for medical complications linked to their diagnosis or scheduled chemotherapy.
Oncology Hospitalist Service clinical care
We manage care for these patients through a team-based approach with oncologists and a social worker, case manager and oncology pharmacist. Our work expands oncology services for the state and region because our hospitalists help to manage inpatient care.
We use the latest standards in caring for oncology patients. Many members of our team participate in nationwide interest groups of hospitalists learning oncology patient care.
Oncology Hospitalist Service leadership
Angela E. Alday, M.D., is the section chief and oversees the Oncology Hospitalist Service. Her academic interests include hospitalist and hospital system operations, capacity management, faculty mentorship and quality improvement.
Intake Hospitalist Service
The Intake Hospitalist Service oversees the transfer of patients into the OHSU Hospital system, as well as among hospitals within the system. Intake hospitalists ensure that patients are transferred appropriately, safely and expediently. We aim to transfer the right patient, to the right hospital and ward at the right time to provide the best care possible.
The Intake Hospitalist Service yields numerous benefits to the OHSU health system as well. They help to ensure patients in need of advanced OHSU services can access them in a timely fashion through inter-system triage. They also remove transfer call duties from physicians who are on clinical shifts, allowing them to focus exclusively on bedside care and the hands-on instruction of our students and residents.
Improved care with the Intake Hospitalist Service
Since the service began in 2021, patients are much more likely to:
- Be transferred to OHSU when they most need care
- Arrive when OHSU has the capacity to provide that care
- Be transferred with all needed documentation
- Be transferred safely
The service has also significantly decreased the number of patients transferred unnecessarily.
Program faculty and leadership
Michael Hendricks, M.D. is the medical director of the Intake Hospitalist Service and the interim chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine.
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Questions?
- Email dhm@ohsu.edu
- 503 494-1164
"Seeing how well our patients are cared for by every member of the interdisciplinary team reinforces my belief that this is how medicine should be practiced: thoughtfully, collaboratively and with the patient at the center of everything we do."
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