Society of Hospital Medicine
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| Non-profit organization | |
| Industry | Hospital Medicine, Hospitalists, Internal Medicine |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
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Key people
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Laurence Wellikson, MD, SFHM (CEO); Burke T. Kealey, MD, SFHM (Current President) |
| Services | Education, Practice Management, Careers, Advocacy, Community |
| Website | www.hospitalmedicine.org |
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) is an American membership society for hospitalists, that is, physicians and other caregivers who practice the specialty of hospital medicine.
SHM is focused on supporting the hospital medicine industry and individual hospitalists. SHM provides continuing education and industry updates for hospitalists in its monthly publication, The Hospitalist, and peer-reviewed journal for hospital medicine, the Journal of Hospital Medicine. In addition to its publications, SHM conducts surveys, prepares written analyses and offers discussion forums that aid in the overall development of the specialty of hospital medicine.
SHM is focused on providing resources, programs and mentoring for quality improvement program for reducing readmissions and hospital acquired diseases while optimizing transitions of care, glycemic control and overall patient care. An integral role of SHM has been the development of policy and position statements to address the concerns and issues of hospitalists and advocating on behalf of hospitalists before government and regulatory agencies.
Founded in 1997 by Internists John Nelson, MD, MHM, of Bellevue, Washington and Winthrop Whitcomb, MD, MHM, of Springfield, Massachusetts, SHM was originally known as the National Association of Inpatient Physicians (NAIP). SHM’s goals include promoting high-quality care for hospitalized patients; advancing education and research in hospital medicine; enhancing medical teamwork to achieve the best care for hospitalized patients; supporting career paths to attract and retain high quality hospitalists; defining competencies, activities and needs of the hospitalist community; and advocating, proposing, and promoting changes to the healthcare system that lead to better care by hospitalists.
A History of SHM, and in many ways the Hospital Medicine Movement:
The Hospitalist news magazine reports on issues and trends in hospital medicine. It reaches more than 25,000 hospitalists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, residents, and medical administrators interested in the practice and business of hospital medicine.
The Journal of Hospital Medicine (JHM) is the peer-reviewed journal in the field of hospital medicine. JHM focuses on pressing medical issues and healthcare trends that affect hospital medicine and patient care while providing extensive research articles and evidence-based reviews.
The specialty of hospital medicine is made up of a varied constituency with both overlapping and discrete educational needs. These constituencies include academic hospitalists, clinicians-internists,family physicians, pediatricians, hospital medicine group leaders, researchers, clinical educators, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, hospital administrators, and pharmacists.
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