Hospitalist program

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 locations 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

Tel: 916-734-7506
Fax: 916-734-7924
clcruz@ucdavis.edu