Hospitalist Program Clinical Services
Ward Teams
Resident Teams
Hospitalist Teams
The Observation Medicine Team
The Advanced Heart Failure Team
Transplant Team Service
Admitting Medical Officers
Admitting Medical Officers (AMOs) are Hospitalists who provide 24/7 high-level, high-acuity care at Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin. The AMO role at Froedtert Hospital was developed to serve several vital functions within our hospital.
- AMOs triage patients coming from all entry points including the Emergency Department, inter-hospital and intra-hospital transfers to appropriate services and level of care based on patient’s acuity. This includes requests for patient transfer to the Internal Medicine inpatient service from other services within our hospital, hospital Emergency Departments or inpatient services, direct admissions from MCW/Froedtert outpatient clinics. The AMOs serve a communication channel for the flow of patient care within this role.
- AMOs are the primary provider responders with the Rapid Response Team (RRT). The RRT responds to emergency calls across our campus, on inpatient and outpatient basis. During 2021, these calls included >3000 RRTs.
- AMOs function as a support and supervisory role 24/7 to our Internal Medicine residents working after hours as well as our cadre of Advanced Practice Providers working at Froedtert Hospital.
- The nocturnist AMO is part of the team that consists of physicians and advanced practice providers who provider inpatient care after hours. This team collaborates with Emergency Medicine, the Access Center, and specialty teams to triage and care for medical inpatients overnight. This includes cross coverage of an average >200 hospitalized patients, admissions to the medicine wards and perioperative consultation.
Procedure Service
The Procedure Medicine Service is committed to providing the highest quality and safest bedside procedures to adult inpatients at Froedtert Hospital. In addition, the service offers comprehensive teaching on safe and appropriate procedural assessment and technique. The service, started in 2015 by Drs. Franco-Sadud and Umpierrez, was one of the first in the country devoted to providing bedside procedural care in a teaching environment. In this model, hospitalists with procedural training and experience directly provide supervision to Internal Medicine Residents in ultrasound evaluation and guidance in performing Lumbar Puncture (diagnostic and with Intrathecal chemotherapy), paracentesis, thoracentesis, non-tunneled small-bore chest tubes, non-tunneled dialysis/apheresis catheters, central lines, arterial lines, bone marrow aspirate and biopsy, incision and drainage of non-cavitary abscess, and arthrocentesis (large joints). Dr. Umpierrez and his team also demonstrated that our service model was associated with high levels of patient and provider satisfaction with inpatient bedside procedures.
The Procedure Medicine program is matrixed across all major business processes and, since inception, the standardized protocols and processes have increased hospital efficiency, and with a similar safety profile to interventional radiology.