Since 1998, UC Davis Medical Center has had a growing and dynamic hospitalist program whose main goals have been twofold: to ensure the highest quality of care to our hospitalized patients and to serve as primary educators/mentors to medical students and internal medicine residents in the care of the hospitalized adult patient.

Hospitalists are physicians whose primary focus is general medical care of the hospitalized patient. We are freed of many of the constraints that an active outpatient doctor faces, therefore able to dedicate our time and energy to provide comprehensive and efficient inpatient medical care. We provide 24 hour in-hospital care and can respond to out patients and their families promptly. We are familiar with key hospital personnel and can anticipate and facilitate care from admission through discharge; including interfacing with the ER, subspecialty and surgical consultants, discharge planners, social workers, clergy and our ancillary services. We are able to facilitate and improve post-acute care needs for the patient through direct communication with primary care providers as well as coordinating the appropriate post-discharge care services such as home health, specialized rehabilitation, and home IV infusion services.

1. Provide a leadership role in quality assurance and implementation
2. Reduce medical errors and improve patient safety by
   • Decreasing regional variation through the implementation of a shared baseline for the management of various disease processes based on most recent evidence and current best practice
   • Being intimately involved in the development and deployment of an electronic medical record
   • Facilitating and emphasizing communication across a spectrum of environments and health care providers
3. Provide outstanding education/mentoring to medical students and residents on principles of hospital based medicine
4. Develop and implement quality improvement initiatives for the UC Davis Health System

• 24-hour per day availability for evaluation of admissions from emergency room as well as outside referrals of patients
• 24-hour per day in-house availability to address ongoing needs of our patients
• Immediate, easy access to our medical staff and primary care network for hospital referrals
• Participate in both faculty-only services and traditional inpatient teaching medical-ward services
• Familiar and consistent approach to medical care
• Providing continuity of care for hospitalized patient as well as consistent communication to the patient's primary care provider
• Efficient, compassionate, high quality medical care

John MacMillan, M.D. - Section Chief
Ru Cai, M.D.
Christopher Camilleri, D.O.
Willard Ellis, M.D.
Wendy Garbedian, M.D.
Raminder Gill, M.D.
Sarah Gratton, M.D.
Tracie Harris, M.D.
Hershan Johl, M.D.
Karnjit Johl, M.D.
Pouria Kashkouli, M.D.
Elena Kret-Sudjian, M.D.
Grace Ku, M.D.
Joseph Lin, M.D.
Maria Miguel, M.D.
Hien Nguyen, M.D.
Douglas Payne, M.D.
Erika Schwilk, M.D.
Jia Wang, M.D.

Rosanne Aguirre
Hospitalist Office Manager
Tel: (916) 734-7506
Fax: (916) 734-4810
rosanne.aguirre@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu


Hospitalist Schedule