Hospitalists are operating in nearly all markets

Excerpts from recent "Help Wanted" ads from across the nation:

Northern California: [Large HMO] seeking hospitalists for multiple sites in the San Francisco Bay, Silicon Valley, and Sacramento areas...Candidates must be BC/BE in IM or FP...

Nevada: One of the largest managed-care organizations in America now has opportunities that are 100 hospital-based. Opportunities also available in South Florida, Kansas City, MO, Louisville, KY and Sarasota, FL...

Northeast Texas: The largest integrated phsyician network in the area is seeking additional hosptialists to help build new inpatient service ...

Maine: HMO Penetration: 23.4%: Hospitalis position in desirable small city...exciting opportunity for BC/BE internist. Emphasis on continuity of care ...

Mid-Atlantic: Internists/Intensivists/Family Practitioners ...one of the nation's leading inpatient hospitalist physician groups has unique orrportunities for BC/BE physicians ..

Kentucky: ...regional referral center seeks BC/BE Hospitalist Team Leader for recently established inpatient service...

Wisconsin: A 90+, physician-owned clinic seeking additional BC/BE internistst to staff the hospitalists program of system partner Hospital...

Source: The Interstudy Competitive Edge, 8.1 (june 1998); National Association of Inpatient Physicians; Classified Section, The Hospitalist 1,3 (fall 1997); CIC Analysis.
Year Est. Number of Hospitalists in US
1993 100-200
1994 300-400
1995 400-700
1996 700-1200
1997 1500-1750
1998 2000+


 

1999 HOSPITALIST MEMBERSHIP IN NAIP -
The National Association of Inpatient Physicians

California 458
New York 144
Texas 139
Florida 125
Massachusetts 121
Pennsylvania 115
Illinois 112
Colorado 101
North Carolina 96
Michigan 83
Ohio 77
Washington 75
Minnesota 70
Missouri 63
Arizona 61
Maryland 57
Wisconsin 56
Connecticut 50
Georgia 49
Tennessee 48
Oregon 47
Virginia 42
Louisiana 36
Indiana 34
New Jersey 33
 
New Mexico 32
Utah 32
Hawaii 29
Oklahoma 23
South Carolina 23
District of Columbia 19
Iowa 17
Mississippi 17
Alabama 15
Nevada 15
Maine 13
Rhode Island 13
West Virginia 12
Delaware 10
Kentucky 10
New Hampshire 10
Nebraska 9
Vermont 9
Arkansas 7
North Dakota 6
Montana 3
Idaho 2
South Dakota 1
Alaska 0
Wyoming 0
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