Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Hospitalist Service
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| Michelle Mourad, MD Medical Director of CHF Hospitalist Service |
The CHF Hospitalist Service is a collaborative service involving the Division of Hospital Medicine and the Division of Cardiology at UCSF. The service is responsible for providing the inpatient care for patients with complex heart failure, heart transplants, and pulmonary hypertension. The patients cared for are those who are seen as part of the UCSF Division of Cardiology Heart Failure Evaluation and Treatment Center.
Created in July 2007, the CHF Hospitalist Service is staffed with a unique hybrid model involving collaborative care provided by both hospitalists and cardiology faculty specializing in heart failure. The hospitalists on the CHF Service are physicians trained in Internal Medicine who manage the day-to-day care of the patients while the cardiology physicians provide the necessary specialized care. The service manages patients both outside and inside the Coronary Care Unit (an “open” ICU model).
The service is dedicated to providing the highest quality and safest care to a complex group of patients while hospitalized. The inpatient care involves robust coordination among physicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, and care coordination.
Questions about the CHF Hospitalist Service can be directed to Michelle Mourad at michelle.mourad@ucsf.edu.