The hospitalist program at OSU started July 2003, in response to patient care needs created by the new work hours restrictions for house staff.  By FY05 (July 2004-June 2005) the nascent Division of Hospital Medicine cared for 17% of all Department of Internal Medicine admissions, and it is projected that the number has increased to ~25% of all IM admissions to University Hospital, the Ross Heart Hospital and the James Cancer Hospital this year. 

The Division of Hospital Medicine is dedicated to the health and well-being of the patients for whom we care, our Division team members, and the Ohio State University Medical Center community.

Our mission is to improve the lives of our patients, by providing personalized, patient-centered, evidence-based medical care of the highest quality.

Our goal is to continually upgrade the services we provide to our patients and medical center community, by expanding and enhancing the services we provide and incorporating a thorough quality improvement program.

Our vision is to create the future of hospital medicine to contribute to the health of our society, by producing research that furthers the field of hospital medicine and clinical practice which meets the most rigorous standards of scholarship, and by our roles as educators and mentors to the next generation of physicians.