The Doctors Company Hosts Hospitalist Leaders for Critical Industry-First Hospitalist Advisory Board
Hospitalist and Patient Safety Leaders Provide Vision for Hospitalists
Napa, California—July 13, 2010—The Doctors Company, the largest national insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability, launched its first-in-industry Hospitalist Advisory Board on June 17 and 18.
The Doctors Company’s mission is to relentlessly protect physicians who advance the practice of good medicine. At the inaugural hospitalist advisory board meeting, thought leaders and practitioners from around the country joined patient safety, claims, and underwriting leaders from The Doctors Company to discuss key issues specific to hospitalists, including the critical areas of patient handoffs and communication, preventing readmissions, medication management, and patient follow-up.
“This forum demonstrates our vision and our commitment to hospitalists, who are rapidly becoming the lynchpin in acute patient care,” said Robin Diamond, MSN, JD, RN, AHA Fellow, senior vice president, Patient Safety at The Doctors Company. “As leaders in patient safety, our enduring goal is to provide our members with tools and answers to their most pressing patient safety questions.”
“I enjoyed participating and learned a lot from The Doctors Company Hospitalist Advisory Board meeting,” said Robert M. Wachter, M.D., Professor and Associate Chairman, Department of Medicine Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF. “I hope this is the forerunner of a wide-ranging set of activities by the company to ensure patient safety and promote best practices for hospitalists across the industry.”
Featured presenters included Robert M. Wachter, MD, father of the hospitalist field and Laurence Wellikson, MD, FHM, CEO of the Society of Hospital Medicine.
About The Doctors Company
Founded by doctors for doctors in 1976, The Doctors Company (www.thedoctors.com) is relentlessly committed to advancing, protecting, and rewarding the practice of good medicine. The Doctors Company is the largest national insurer of physician and surgeon medical liability with 46,000 member physicians, $3 billion in assets, an A rating by Fitch Ratings, and an A- rating by A.M. Best Company.