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Skilled Doctors Playing an Important Role

At Saint Vincent Hospital, we’re dedicated to providing comprehensive, compassionate care to those in our community. As part of our ongoing commitment to excellence, our Hospitalist Program plays a critical part in providing you with support in getting the care you need. Hospitalists are doctors whose primary focus is providing general medical care for anyone admitted to our hospital.

What Do Saint Vincent Hospitalists Do?

Hospitalists are responsible for many important tasks, including:

 

  • Working in partnership with your primary care doctor to coordinate inpatient care
  • Working closely with nurses, ancillary staff and other specialists involved in your care
  • Being familiar with the hospital’s systems for ordering tests, analyzing results and arranging for treatment
  • Being trained to quickly recognize and respond to changes in the patient’s condition
  • Being available at the hospital 24 hours a day, so they can see patients as frequently as their medical conditions require
  • Promptly providing your doctor with a written report of your hospital visit to facilitate any follow-up care you may need

 

If you do not have a primary care doctor, the Hospitalist team will provide you with a list and arrange your follow-up care.

How Hospitalists Help Primary Care Doctors

Hospitalists practice full-time in the hospital, so they are readily available to help your doctor. When you enter the hospital, a Saint Vincent Hospitalist will immediately begin acting as attending doctor for the length of the hospital stay.

Hospitalists will:

 

  • Provide prompt admission and treatment
  • Oversee your entire hospital stay to provide quality care
  • Communicate ongoing patient status to your primary care doctor on a timely basis

 

Daily activities include:

 

  • Coordinating hospital admissions
  • Arranging diagnostic testing and specialty consultations
  • Explaining findings and discussing recommendations with patients
  • Orchestrating all patient care
  • Providing medical care for patients who need surgical treatment
  • Managing urgent situations that may arise during the hospitalization
  • Reviewing hospital treatment with insurance companies and payers

 

Career Opportunities

If you’re interested in a career as a Hospitalist at Saint Vincent Hospital, call (508) 363-6849 to learn more.

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Six Tips for A Safe Halloween

It seems like Halloween is the one night that signals beginning of the holiday whirlwind. While Halloween can be exciting for kids and adults alike, there are a few extra tips in order to ensure that the fun continues.

  1. Watch out for cars. Did you know that on Halloween, kids are four times more likely to be hit by a car than any other night? Instruct your kids not to walk between cars, to always watch for drivers and to cross at street corners in groups.
  2. Remember candy contains ingredients that cause allergies. Hiding in that delicious candy could be wheat, peanuts or milk — sources of severe allergies for many adults and children. While you’re checking the labels for ingredients, especially when you have a child with allergies, keep an eye out for opened of suspicious candy as well.
  3. Make sure you are visible in the dark. Definitely carry a flashlight or glow sticks. Use reflective tape to increase the visibility of your costume or your child’s. And if they resist, you could always make their treat bag extremely reflective or even attach LED lights.
  4. Make a plan and run through it. If you’re at the point where your kids are exercising their independence take time to talk over a plan of “approved” routes through the neighborhood. Make certain they agree to follow it. Outline what neighborhoods you’ll start with, where you’ll go and which ones to avoid.
  5. Wear comfortable shoes and watch for tripping hazards. This is a pretty obvious one. You’ll be trekking throughout the neighborhood in the dark. Be prepared to deal with curbs, potholes, decorations on the ground and a few miles.
  6. Look for porch lights. It may come as a surprise to your kids, but not everyone wants to participate in Halloween. Remind them to “trick or treat” at well-lit homes with their porch light lit. Teach children that a dark house may mean no one is home, or they’ve gone to bed. And finally, remind your children that the same stranger danger rules apply even on Halloween: never go in a stranger’s house, even if they’re handing out candy.

The main thing is to talk to your kids about safety out of the home and with strangers. Now is also a good time to talk about a diet with balance. (They don’t have to eat all that candy in one sitting!) Set limits like two pieces of candy a night only after dinner, or whatever limits you feel comfortable with.

Have fun!

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