| Local Physicians Earn Senior Fellow in
Hospital Medicine Designation
June 17, 2010, Muskegon, MI - The Society of Hospital Medicine has announced that Rolf Hissom, M.D. and Joan Nagelkirk, M.D. of Specialists in Hospital Medicine, are among the more than 150 hospitalists nationwide who have earned the first-ever Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine (SFHM) designation.
As hospitalists, Drs. Hissom and Nagelkirk are physicians whose practices are devoted to treating patients in hospital settings, primarily at Mercy Health Partners’ inpatient settings. Along with other honors, Drs. Hissom and Nagelkirk have now earned the right to add “SFHM” to their credentials.
The inaugural class of SFHM designees represents hospital medicine’s experienced leaders. To be designated as a Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine, an applicant must:
- Serve as a hospitalist for at least five years,
- Be a member of Society of Hospital Medicine for at least five years, and
- Demonstrate their dedication to quality and process improvement, commitment to organizational teamwork and leadership, as well as lifelong learning and education.
“We are not aware of any other facility in the nation that has more than one Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine. To have both of these dedicated and excellent physicians in our community is truly an honor,” shares Roger Spoelman, President and CEO, Mercy Health Partners.
“Our new SFHM designees combine the innovation and experience that make hospital medicine such a vital and visionary medical specialty,” said SHM’s CEO, Larry Wellikson, MD, SFHM. “We hope that hospitals and communities will join us in congratulating these individuals in their leadership, experience and service to improving patient care in the hospital.”
Hissom and Nagelkirk were inducted into the inaugural class of Senior Fellows at SHM annual’s meeting in Washington, DC on April 10, 2010. The inaugural class of Master Fellows in Hospital Medicine (MHM) and second class of Fellows in Hospital Medicine (FHM) joined them.
ABOUT the SOCIETY OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE
The Society of Hospital Medicine is the national organization for hospitalists. They are leading the transformation and improvement of care for the hospitalized patient through innovation, collaboration, and action. Over the past decade, studies have shown that hospitalists decrease patient lengths of stay, reduce hospital costs and readmission rates, all while increasing patient satisfaction. Hospital medicine is the fastest-growing specialty in modern healthcare, with over 31,000 hospitalists currently practicing and an upward growth trajectory in full force. For more information about SHM, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org. For information about the Society of Hospital Medicine’s Fellows program, visit www.hospitalmedicine.org/fellow.
About Specialists in Hospital Medicine
Specialists in Hospital Medicine (SHM) is a practice of several physicians and physicians’ assistants specializing in internal medicine (also known as hospitalists) in West Michigan. These providers are based at healthcare facilities where they partner with primary care physicians to provide care in the in-patient setting.
About Mercy Health Partners
Mercy Health Partners is a teaching hospital and the second largest health system in West Michigan with more than 4,000 associates, and some 21,000 inpatient discharges and 137,000 emergency/urgent care visits annually. The system has four hospitals and 375 physicians and offers a number of exclusive specialty physician care services for the region.
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