Hospitalist Program

Founded in 1998, the UC Irvine School of Medicine's Hospitalist Program is one of nation's first. It focuses on clinical care, education, improvement in quality of care and patient safety in the hospital environment.

Included in the UC Irvine program are doctors who specialize in internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, geriatrics, infectious diseases, palliative care, perioperative medicine, preventive medicine, pediatric infectious diseases and pulmonary/critical care medicine at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange.

The program is well known for its innovative approaches to quality-of-care improvement and patient safety, two areas in which UC Irvine Medical Center rates among the best in the country.