PUBLIC POLICY

Capitol Investment

SHM finds legislators receptive, ready for healthcare reform

By Jane Jerrard

Members of SHM's Public Policy Committee (PPC) traveled to Capitol Hill for their fourth annual legislative visit last week and they found congressional representatives and staff more eager than ever to listen.

"With healthcare at the forefront of what's happening [in Congress] right now, the members of congress and their staffs were particularly interested in what we had to say," says committee member Felix Aguirre, MD, vice president of medical affairs for IPC: The Hospitalist Company in San Antonio.

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CAREER

Team Effort to Combat Fractures

Minnesota venture to improve outcomes pairs hospitalist, orthopedic surgeon

By Richard Quinn

A joint venture between a hospitalist and an orthopedist in rural Minnesota is targeting geriatric fracture patients, and aims to reduce lengths of stay and morbidity.

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