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Your Doctor Is Always In Hospitalists improve patients’ stays THERE WAS A TIME WHEN YOUR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN would be with you for every step of your healthcare needs—even hospitalization. Today, just as you may have several specialists who treat your health needs, there is a new specialist, known as a hospitalist, being selected by more and more primary care physicians to care for you during a hospital stay. With advances in technology and the continuous introduction of new regulatory requirements, hospitals Meet the hospitalists who practice at CTMC: Guido Calderon, M.D. Francisco Hernandez Jr., M.D. Sara Karasch, RN-CNS You can learn more about our hospitalist team by calling (830) 608-3464, e-mailing imp.pa@satx.rr.com or visiting ctmc.org. Hospitalization 101 Preparation simpliﬁes stay Here’s a short list of other items to prepare before hospitalization: 1 Your insurance policy cards, authorization or claim forms, Social Security number, driver’s license or other form of I.D. 1 A list of all medications you are taking, including dosage and frequency. Your list should include prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, and herbal or other supplements. 1 If you have a living will or other advance directive, please bring a copy with you. (If you do not have either of these documents and would like to prepare them during your stay, please be sure to tell your physicians, nurse or other CTMC associate.) 1 Either a prepaid calling card or a phone card to place long-distance calls. 1 A list of all of your physicians with phone numbers and addresses. are becoming highly complex organizations. Hospitalists are specially trained in providing inpatient hospital care in today’s modern medical center. Their highest priority is providing excellent care for their patients. “Hospitalists represent one of the most rapidly growing forms of medical practices in the U.S. today,” says Gary Jepson, Central Texas Medical Center (CTMC) president and CEO. “Our team of hospitalists allows us to provide our patients with a highly specialized and extremely personalized stay.” “Hospitalists are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” says Lana Cameron, CTMC chief nursing o cer and vice president of patient care services. “Because they are ever-present in the hospital, they are more familiar with sta , consulting doctors and testing procedures.” Additionally, since patients admitted to hospitals generally have more complex health concerns these days, experts say their conditions can change from minute to minute, which warrants frequent monitoring. Because they maintain a 24-hour presence, hospitalists are able to provide more timely diagnoses and treatment. Upon your discharge from the hospital, your hospitalist will communicate with your primary care physician to ensure your receipt of timely and appropriate follow-up care. p ON OUR COVER: Jay Seifert, co-founder of LoneStart Wellness, and Jessica Mease, operations coordinator for CTMC’s Institute for Healthy Living, celebrate the success of recent LoneStart Wellness participant, Dee Taylor, CTMC executive assistant. Photo by Don Anders. Bicycle and location provided by Pedal Power. Hill Country Health is a quarterly publication of Central Texas Medical Center, a member of the Adventist Health System. President and CEO: Gary Jepson. Central Texas Medical Center, 1301 Wonder World Drive, San Marcos, TX, 78666, (512) 353-8979. The magazine is produced by CTMC’s PR & Marketing Department: Clay DeStefano: Administrative Director; Kale Bowen: Coordinator; Tabitha Walsh: Coordinator. Copyright © 2010 by McMurry. All rights reserved. Information in this publication is not intended for the purpose of diagnosing or prescribing. Consult your physician before undertaking any form of medical treatment and/or advice contained in this publication. Central Texas Medical Center • www.ctmc.org Now printed on recycled paper! http://www.ctmc.org http://www.ctmc.org

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CTMC Hill Country Health - Spring 2010
New Specialist Improves Hospital Care
Riding High! LoneStart Wellness Challenge Improves Local Woman's Health, Energy, Life
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CTMC Hill Country Health - Spring 2010