IPC The Hospitalist Company Partners with UCSF

IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. IPCM, a leading national hospitalist physician group practice company, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Division of Hospital Medicine and its Center for the Health Professions to develop a leadership training program for dozens of IPC's key physician managers. Graduates of this fellowship program, the first of its kind in hospital medicine, will be equipped with the skills to lead change, both within and outside their organization – a skill set that is essential to meeting healthcare's challenges in an era of reform and breathtaking change. Adam Singer, MD, Chairman and CEO of IPC The Hospitalist Company, commented, "This partnership with one of the nation's leading academic programs in hospital medicine puts IPC squarely in the forefront of clinical leadership education for hospitalists. Training is the key to creating true alignment between physicians and hospitals, and together with our UCSF partners, we have developed the best leadership training program available to hospitalist leaders. This endeavor is very much in keeping with an entrepreneurial spirit that gives an outsourced practice solution such as IPC a competitive edge in providing leadership to the hospital community in the field of hospital medicine."