Doctors, Physician Assistants, and Nurse Practitioners from the Division of Hospital Medicine provide around-the-clock, evidence based and person-centered care for hospitalized internal medicine patients here at Johns Hopkins Bayview. Our hospitalists provide leadership in hospital operations, quality and patient safety, and transitioning patients safely through multiple levels of care. We have the flexibility to respond to emerging medical conditions, and were instrumental in developing processes of care for COVID-19 patients.

Patient services provided by hospitalists at Johns Hopkins Bayview include:

• General medicine: Admits patients from the Emergency Department or directly from the community to the medicine service. Medical care is progressed efficiently and equitably during the hospitalization. When patients are ready to move out of the hospital, the hospitalists will work on making the discharge safe and patient centered.
• Medicine triage : Assign patients to the appropriate teams and level of care. This hospitalist is the first contact that a patient has with a medicine provider. They ensure that the patient's needs are best served as an inpatient. There are times when it is safest for a patient to be managed in the ambulatory setting.
• Intermediate Medical Service (IMC): Our hospitalists provide state-of-the-art clinical care to those patients who need closer monitoring than they would get on a general medicine floor but are not too sick to require intensive care.
• Addiction medicine: We partner with addiction medicine specialists to provide evidence-based treatment and links to community resources.
• Medicine consult: The hospitalists provide consults for patients with complex medical needs on other services such as surgery and psychiatry.
• Procedure Service: Staffed by experienced hospitalists, this team ensures expedient progression of care by performing bedside procedures including lumbar punctures, paracentesis, and placing dobhoff’s.
• Point of care ultrasound: The hospitalists will provide certain bedside ultrasound imaging studies to support clinical decision making for patients when deemed necessary.