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“Her car was at the local pharmacy, not too far from the hospital. When it came time for her to be discharged, she needed a way to get to her car. She was reluctant for her family members to help. We tried a couple of taxicab options, but they were unwilling to take her, which I understand. So I thought, well, you know, I\u2019ve been in the room with her every day that she\u2019s been here, so I\u2019ll just put on the protective gear and drive her myself. I drove her to her car, and she was able to drive home. She was very appreciative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although Robison might shrug at the retelling of the specific story, it accurately speaks to his ability to recognize needs and his willingness to meet those needs. In fact, Robison\u2019s role as a hospitalist came as a result of his ability to see a greater need within the local medical profession sphere. He shared, \u201cWhen I came to Tullahoma [in 1988], at that time, there was really no such thing as a hospitalist. So when we [other medical professionals in the community] would admit patients to the hospital, who did not have a primary physician (or at least not in our community), we had to use a call system in which we took turns caring for those patients. I personally thought that we had grown to the point that we needed a full-time hospitalist, and I believed the evidence supported that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore, Robison petitioned for the local hospital to add the hospitalist program. A hospitalist, by definition, is \u201ca doctor who provides care for patients at a hospital. They have the same education and training as a primary care doctor but specialize in providing hospital care.\u201d Robison was foundational in helping get the program started here in Tullahoma. He became Harton Hospital\u2019s first hospitalist in 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since that time, the hospital has only grown its team of hospitalists. Robison shared, \u201cWe\u2019ve added team members since then, and now we have two teams of three physicians. One team is present in the hospital around the clock.\u201d Robison continued, \u201cPrimarily, the growth was because more and more office physicians became under increasing stress trying to manage their office and take care of their hospital patients, all on the same day. So, to date, almost all primary care physicians who have outpatient offices have their hospital work done by a team of hospitalists.\u201d Adding a hospitalist program to the hospital improves our local healthcare system significantly. Thank you, Keith Robison, for your visionary mind and daily answering the call to serve. GN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Keith Robison shows why adding a hospitalist program to the hospital improves our local healthcare system significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n