Alaska Native Medical Center Vision ANMC hospitalists partner with our patients and their families to deliver Ambassador Drive Tudor Centre Drive Hospital the safest, highest quality and most innovative care. Grounded in values and guidance, we work to achieve the vision that Alaska Native people are the Medicine healthiest people in the world. ANMC Mission Service Providing the highest quality health care Diplomacy Drive services in partnership with our people and the Alaska Tribal Health System. Elmore Road Elmore Tudor Road Alaska Native Medical Center Internal Medicine Hospitalist Department 4315 Diplomacy Drive Anchorage, AK 99508 Phone: (907) 729-2188 | Fax: (907) 729-2019 Updated December 2013 by ANTHC Marketing and Communications anmc.org Who we are • Hospitalists communicate with Hospitalists are physicians who specialize in primary care providers and provide the practice of hospital medicine, a medical updates on any significant changes specialty dedicated to the delivery of in condition. comprehensive medical care to hospitalized • Hospitalists help coordinate your patients. discharge and prescribe medications that will need to be taken once you A primary care provider, an emergency leave the hospital. doctor or another specialist will recommend • Your hospitalist will send a summary admission to the hospital. A hospitalist report of the hospitalization to your will supervise your care for the duration primary care provider’s clinic. of your hospital stay at ANMC. During your • You should expect to need a primary hospital stay you may have more than one care appointment soon after leaving the hospitalist, but you will always be provided hospital. Either the appointment can the continuity of care that you deserve. be made prior to leaving the hospital or it can be made at your discretion. Our services Hospitalists do not have any outpatient • An assigned hospitalist is available clinics. Discharge care coordination on-site 24 hours a day, seven days ANMC Discharge Care Coordination a week, to answer your questions will work with you, your family and and respond to your medical needs. multidisciplinary teams at ANMC to Because hospitalists work in shifts, this maintain a seamless transition from can sometimes mean that the same inpatient hospital care to an outpatient doctor will not be working every day. primary care setting. Depending on your length of stay in the hospital, this may mean that you Contact information may see two or more hospitalists while • To speak with a hospitalist while in the admitted. hospital, ask your primary nurse to page • Hospitalists work with primary care the doctor. If your assigned hospitalist is providers, surgeons, specialists, nurses not on duty, then another hospitalist will and other medical professionals in visit with you. managing your hospital care. • You may contact a hospitalist after having • Hospitalists work at the hospital full- returned home if you have any questions time to provide your care, seeing you about your hospital stay. Call (907) 729- daily to direct treatment and to attend 2188 and ask to speak to a hospitalist. to any emergencies that may arise..