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HOSPITAL MEDICINE

Marcio Rotta Soares, M.D. Interim Division Chief

Clinical

The Division of Hospital Medicine continues to provide exceptional in-patient acute care services to patients at University of Miami Hospital and Clinics (UHealth Tower), Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and Jackson Memorial Hospital. Within the past year, the Division of Hospital Medicine has expanded its team to include 60 faculty and staff who all share the same goal – to provide quality patient care.

The division has adopted several care models to support patient throughput, the most successful being the Nurse Care Model allowing APRNs to work to their full license potential. Most teams are now comprised of a physician along with a collaborating APRN. Currently, each team carries a patient census of 22 patients per day.

The division also adopted the Staff Physician Model. Staff physicians provide expanded hospital coverage while increasing census per provider (increasing caps from 16 to 20) exclusive of nurse practitioner (NP) support. Since we are a completely clinical division, staff physicians play a critical role in providing round-the-clock patient care and reducing the need for moonlighters and locums.

This year welcomed the addition of an Emergency Department (ED) Admitting Team. This team, comprised of an attending physician and three nurse practitioners, focuses on triage and admitting all patients from the ED as well as those patients coming from outside hospitals as transfers. The team not only admits but provides care coordination throughout the day, which allows for our inpatient teams to round and coordinate discharges in a more fluid fashion. The success of this team has allowed for safer and more tailored care delivery in our inpatient units.

Education

Our academic mission focuses primarily on quality and safety, education and the teaching of residents. Due to the success of our teaching services and our faculty’s desire to expand their academic footprint, the Division of Hospital Medicine created a third teaching team comprised of senior faculty members who mentor internal medicine residents through our affiliation with Jackson Memorial Health System. Each teaching service holds a maximum patient census of 16, with a focus on quality education and patient care.

Highlights

As the new Interim Chief, Dr. Marcio Soares’ innovative ideas and years of experience as the Chief of Geriatrics/Palliative Medicine and Associate Chief Medical Officer for University of Miami Hospital and Clinics (UHealth Tower) will undoubtedly transform the division’s clinical and academic footprint. Some of the divisional goals include: to reduce length-of-stay (LOS) and readmission rates and continue to create a more sustainable staff model to efficiently meet the needs of the hospital as well as other divisions and departments at the University of Miami.

Dr. Maria Carolina Delgado-Lelievre, founder/director of the only American Heart Association (AHA) Comprehensive Hypertension Center in Florida, obtained approval to use the newest technology in remote blood pressure monitoring. The University of Miami will be the first university in the U.S. to implement this technology.

Dr. Efren Manjarrez successfully completed his first year on the board of directors for the Society of Hospital Medicine. He is the first University of Miami faculty member ever elected to the board. Dr. Manjarrez also served as course director for the Perioperative and Consultative Medicine Pre-Course at Southern Hospital Medicine Atlanta, where he presented four lectures.

Associate Professor Efren Manjarrez, M.D. Assistant Professors Juan Serralles Allongo, M.D. Candido Anaya, M.D. Alberto R. Arancibia, M.D. Scott Berger, M.D. Aldo Pavon Canseco, M.D. Sharde Chambers, M.D. Tanya Clarke, M.D. Stephanie Chery, M.D. Maria Carolina

Delgado-Lelievre, M.D. Iman Doostan, M.D. Kunal Gawri, M.D. Erica Graff, M.D. Oxana Harlamova, M.D. Armen Henderson, M.D. Devora Kahn, M.D. Joshua Laban, M.D. Ahmed Luqman, M.D. Vijay Mehta, M.D. Maria Antonietta Mosetti, M.D. Deepak Mummidavarapu, M.D. Lubna Osman, M.D. Rafael Enrique

Hernandez Oquet, M.D. Christian Quintana, M.D. Phillip Rubin, M.D. Allan Rubinfeld, M.D. Jonathan Salter, M.D. Olga Tarasova, M.D. Pamela Trotter, M.D. Bruno Urrea, M.D. Avinash Vernekar, M.D. Jessica Zuleta, M.D. Staff Physicians Rafael Garces, M.D. Taaha Mendha, M.D. Jonathan Salter, M.D. Glenda Sosa, M.D. Liana Woodley-Pearson, M.D. Jorge Diaz Valdes, M.D.