About Us...

Your physician has asked our group to care for you during your hospital stay. I will be your primary physician while you are in Swedish Medical Center.

I am a doctor with Inpatient Medicine Service, PC, a group of board-certified Internal Medicine physicians, dedicated to providing state-of-the-art medical care to hospitalized patients. We are members of a medical specialty.

Having a Hospitalist group care for hospitalized patients frees the primary care doctor to be more focused and effective in caring for you as an outpatient, and allows our group to be more efficient and up-to-date in serving you while you are in the hospital. In fact, studies have shown that Hospitalists are able to shorten patients’ hospital stays while providing more effective hospital care.

I might not be the only doctor in our group to provide care for you during your stay in the hospital. Depending upon my schedule, I might ask one of my partners to care for you while I am away from the hospital. Occasionally, depending on the circumstances, you might be cared for by several of my partners. Our group has physicians on-call 24 hours a day to attend to your medical needs in the hospital.

Our group has very close communication with your primary physician. Your doctor (or one of their partners on-call) has been notified of your hospitalization at the time of your admission. We likewise send a summary of your hospital care to your doctor at the time of your discharge. We also, when necessary, maintain telephone contact with your doctor while you are here.

Our group is often called upon to help manage patients’ medical problems after surgery. Even though we might or might not have a professional relationship with your primary care physician, your surgeon trusts us to appropriately address those medical conditions they are not used to managing.

Our group frequently cares for patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Often patients in the ICU have only a vague memory of their stay there, and are often unable to recall all of the numerous physicians and hospital staff that might have cared for them. Every physician in our group writes detailed notes (and often a variety of orders) in the charts of those patients they see in the ICU. If you are unable to recall being treated by one or more of our doctors while you were there, we would be happy to review the visit notes and orders with you if necessary.

We make every effort to keep you and your family regularly informed of your medical condition while you are in the hospital. Because we see patients in the hospital throughout the day, and do not have an outpatient practice, we do not  have an office telephone number where we can be readily reached. The best way to contact us for urgent messages is to call your nursing station (available directly or through the Swedish Medical Center operator) and to have the nursing staff page us to you. We do maintain a business office, and its telephone number is (303) 781-8439.

We hope your stay at Swedish Medical Center is a positive experience, and will do our utmost to provide for your health and comfort while you are here. Here is an introduction to me and my partners in Inpatient Medicine Services.