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Hospitalist Services
The Hospitalist Program at Columbia Memorial Hospital is designed to optimize patient care and provide for smooth transitions into and out of the hospital. A hospitalist is a physician who assists your doctor when you require admission. He or she is part of your patient-care team while you are at Columbia Memorial.
If you come to the Emergency Department, for example, you will be stabilized and the hospitalists will be called for the admission. They immediately will get in touch with your
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primary care physician for any pre-arranged instructions regarding your care and any medical information necessary to treat you. The hospitalist will also keep your physician up-to-date on your progress.
Our hospital case manager will work with your physician's office to plan appropriate follow up, provide needed education and engage community services for you, if necessary. For specialty consultations we will establish a list of your physician's preferences in order to maintain the relationships that you have already established with your doctor.
At discharge we will provide your physician a detailed summary of the hospitalization, as well as all appropriate test results and consultation reports for his or her files. We will make sure that these are in your doctor's office before you see him or her for follow up visits.
Meet your hospitalists...
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Dmitri Belov, MD is board certified in internal medicine and practices with the Columbia Memorial Hospitalist Program. His medical degree is from the I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical College. He was a post-doctoral research fellow at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgons in New York. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. |
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Arthur Chandler, MD works in the Columbia Memorial Hospitalist Program. He is board certified in family medicine. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina with a Master in Science degree. He completed his Doctor of Medicine degree from SUNY Health Sciences Center in Brooklyn an did his residency in family medicine at the University of California, Davis Medical Center. |
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Peter Franklin, DO, is a hospitalist at Columbia Memorial. A magna cum laude graduate in biology from SUNY New Paltz, Dr. Franklin received his doctorate of osteopathic medicine from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury. Prior to joining Columbia Memorial, he completed his residency at Northshore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York. |
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Monica Reed, MD has joined
Columbia Memorial Hospital from her previous
practice at Delta County Medical
Hospital in Delta, CO where she was ICU
Director. She completed her residency in
internal medicine at The Stamford Hospital
Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons in Stamford, CT. Dr. Reed did
her undergraduate work in our region
at Columbia-Greene Community College,
SUNY Albany (biology), and SUNY Oswego
(zoology). |
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Franck Tirgari, MD, is a hospitalist working at Columbia Memorial Hospital. Dr. Tirgari is a graduate of the University of Nantes, France in biology and received his medical doctor degree from Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University in Hungary, graduating cum laude. He was the neurological house physician at St. Vincent Catholic Medical Center Hospital in New York where he also did his residency. He completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at North-Shore Long Island Jewish Health System before coming to work in Hudson in 2006. |
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Douglas Wickman, MD, is a hospitalist at Columbia Memorial.
Previously, Dr. Wickman worked as an intensive care hospitalist at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, Oregon. He also held a position as hospitalist with McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in Oregon.
He received his doctor of medicine degree from the Robert Wood Johnson University of Medicine and Dentistry and completed his internal medicine residency at the Medical University of South Carolina.
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Christine Byrnes, NP works in the Columbia Memorial Hospitalist Program. Previously she was a Nurse Practitioner at Adirondack Nephrology in Glens Falls, NY. She was also a critical care nurse at Sharon Hospital in Sharon CT. Her NP Degree is from the Sage Graduate School. Her BS, RN is from The Sage Colleges. |
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