Movers and Shakers in Hospital Medicine, July 2015

The Hospitalist. 2015 July;2015(07):

July 6, 2015 | The Hospitalist

Business Moves

Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. (ApolloMed), a private physician staffing company based in Glendale, Calif., has partnered with the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine to launch the USC Hospitalist Leadership Fellowship Program. The program will be a one-year training and educational program for internal medicine graduates to gain experience in the delivery of hospital medicine.

Hospitalists Now Inc. (HNI) based in Austin, Texas, recently merged with Cambridge Hospitalists of Rancho Mirage, Calif., an acute-care hospitalist staffing company. HNI is a private hospitalist staffing firm serving hospitals in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Rhode Island, and California.

IPC Healthcare recently acquired Accountability Healthcare in Birmingham, Ala., a regional post-acute care practice. IPC is a national physician staffing company providing hospitalist and post-acute care services in over 400 hospitals and 1,700 post-acute facilities across the country.

IPC Healthcare named three of its physicians as 2014 Acute Care Hospitalists of the Year:

Frankie Wendell Erdman, MD, works at Mobile Medical Center in Mobile, Ala., as an IPC practice group leader.

Peter Weitzman, MD, works as an IPC practice group leader at Providence Holy Family Hospital in Spokane, Wash.

Kunal Bhagat, MD, serves as an IPC practice group leader at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Del.