Welcome to Medicine Firms Faculty, Department of Medicine in the Medical School at the University of Minnesota

Greetings from Jo Ann Wood, MD, MSEd, Lead Hospitalist! Welcome.  We developed this site in an effort to streamline the process of staffing the Medicine Firms.  We’ve included information on this web site that a hospitalist will need to get oriented, to bill and to contact colleagues.

Your feedback about the web site is essential to maintaining its usefulness.  Please direct your suggestions and comments to me by e-mail at joannw@umn.edu or you can reach me by phone at 612-625-9989.

• Schedules
• Staff Directory (Attendings/PCC Call)
• Med and Med/Peds Residency Directory

Firm Policies and Procedures

• Billing, Coding and Documenting
• Computerized Physician Order Entry
• Firm Operations/Policies

• Information for Referring Providers
• Responsibilities and Expectations
• Shared Drive Access
• Hand-Offs and Care Coordination/Sign-Outs
• Consult Documentation Recommendations
• Medicine Firm Overflow Policy
• Job Codes

Fairview Information

• Fairview Orientation/Resources
• UMMC/Riverside Telephone Numbers
• Computer Resources
• Information about your Digital Pager
• Parking Information
• Fairview Intranet
• Physician Resources Home Page

7A Medical Unit - The "Home" Ward

• 7A Medical Unit Policies

Teaching Information

• First Day Recommendations
• Teaching Tips & Didactic Sessions
• Peer Evaluation of Teaching

Primary Care Center Policies and Guidelines

• Complex Scheduling and Referrals
• Critical Lab Values
• Disaster Response
• E-mail Communication with Patients
• Late Arrivals
• Primary Care Center After-Hours Call Schedule
• Primary Care Vision Statement
• Time-Off Policy