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in Hospital Medicine. This new specialty resulted in the creation of a team of hospitalists - inpatient physicins who care only for patients in the hospital.
Community Medical Center's hospitalist team is available, 24/7 by calling CMC's Transport/Referal Line at 1-888-487-8635.
Primary or specialty care physicians may ask our hospitalist team at any time to assist in caring for patients during a Community Medical Center stay. This will help to ensure that your hospitalized patient recieves the attention of a physician even wven when you as the primary physician cannot be at their bedside.
Community Medical Center's hospitalist program is anchored by six board-certified internal medicine physicians whose specialties are caring for adult hospitalized patients:
- Lawrence Gerstle, MD
- Rebecca Anderson, MD, Chief Hospitalist
CMC's Hospitalist services. physicians work for a private practice (Sound Inpatient Physicians) in partnership with the hospital and have no outpatient reponsibilities. Our team will work to continually communicate with you during your patients hospital stay, from admission through discharge. All patients will be sent back to you, the referring physician.
Physicians wanting to set up a referral relationship with Sound Inpatient Physicians can call (253) 682-1710 to sign up. You can call the CMC toll-free number any time to refer an acute patient; however, a referral agreement provides additional contact and information benefits.
