The Hospital Medicine program at The Vancouver Clinic is designed to provide high quality around-the-clock care to our hospitalized patients.

Hospital Medicine is the discipline concerned with the general medical care of hospitalized patients. Practitioners whose primary professional focus is hospital medicine are called hospitalists. Their activities may include patient care, teaching, research, and leadership related to hospital care. Hospital medicine, like emergency medicine, is a specialty organized around a site of care (the hospital), rather than an organ (like cardiology), a disease (like oncology), or a patient's age (like pediatrics). However, unlike medical specialists in the emergency department or critical care units, most hospitalists help manage patients throughout the continuum of hospital care, often seeing patients in the emergency department, admitting them to inpatient units, following them as necessary into the critical care unit, and organizing post-acute care