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ROBERT FERBER, MD EARNS SENIOR FELLOW IN HOSPITAL MEDICINE DESIGNATION
Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) has announced that Robert Ferber, MD, SFHM, of Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, is among the more than 150 hospitalists nationwide who have earned the first-ever Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine (SFHM) designation.
Along with other honors, he has earned the right to add “SFHM” to his credentials, such as “MD” or “DO”.
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 SHM 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.
“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.”
Dr. Ferber will be inducted in the inaugural class of Senior Fellows at SHM annual’s meeting in Washington, DC on April 10, 2010. They will be joined by the inaugural class of Master Fellows in Hospital Medicine (MHM) and second class of Fellows in Hospital Medicine (FHM).
SHM is the national organization for hospitalists. 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.
Dr. Ferber has served as the founding Medical Director of Nanticoke Memorial Hospital’s Hospitalist Program, which started in 2004. Nanticoke’s Hospitalist Program now comprises five hospitalist physicians and two nurse practitioners. This group of doctors currently serves about 60% of all of the medical patients currently admitted to Nanticoke Memorial Hospital. At least one of the hospitalists is present at the hospital 24 hours per day, taking care of patients admitted to the hospital and also serving as key members of special medical teams such as the “Rapid Response” and “Stroke Teams”, rapidly bringing a physician to the bedside in an emergency situation. Nanticoke Memorial’s hospitalist team now has a new director, Dr. Abimbolo Olowo, who joined the program in 2009, after completing his training at Christiana Medical Center and working as a hospitalist in Georgia. Meanwhile Dr. Ferber, while continuing to work as a hospitalist, has also taken on new responsibilities as Hospital Information Officer, acting as lead physician for a hospital-wide updates to Nanticoke Memorial Hospital’s electronic medical record system. The updated system will place Nanticoke amongst the most computerized hospitals in America and is considered the hospital’s most significant quality improvement project of the next two years.
Nanticoke Memorial Hospital now has over 100 members on its active medical staff, representing 37 specialties. To find out more, call Nanticoke’s Physician Referral Services at 1-877-NHS-4DOCS or visit the website at www.nanticoke.org.
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