Hospital Medicine Unit

Overview

Massachusetts General Hospital’s Hospital Medicine Unit is a comprehensive Academic Hospital Medicine service with a mission of delivering outstanding inpatient care, while fostering academic advancement and professional growth for its clinicians.

The service leverages a team based model to serve over 150 patients across the hospital in a variety of inpatient care settings, including high acuity, regionalized direct patient care; moderate acuity, non-regionalized direct patient care and residency teaching teams. As it is a hospital-based service, our clinicians do not see outpatients and will instead communicate with outpatient primary care physician(s) throughout patients’ hospital stays and at discharge to ensure collaboration in care.

The service is composed of over 100 outstanding board-certified internal medicine physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, supported by an exceptional administrative team, and is continuously growing. Together, our clinicians are committed to providing round-the-clock high-quality inpatient medical care and education.

What Is Hospital Medicine?

Hospital medicine is a medical specialty dedicated to the delivery of comprehensive medical care to hospitalized patients. Practitioners of hospital medicine include physicians and advanced practice clinicians (“hospitalists”) who engage in clinical care, teaching, research or leadership in the field of general hospital medicine.

Leadership Team

Melissa Mattison, MD
Chief, Hospital Medicine Unit




Warren Chuang, MD
Director, Clinical Staffing




Kerry Maloney, MPH
Sr. Admin Manager




William Hillmann, MD
Director, Quality & Patient Safety




Denisa Gace, DO
Associate Director of Operations




Cindy Yu, MD
Associate Director of Operations




Emily Hughes, MD
Associate Director of Operations




Meghan Meehan, CNP
Advanced Practice Provider Manager




Steven Knuesel, MD
Lead for ED Boarder




Patrick Smithedajkul, MD
Lead for Simulation




Margaret Chapman, MD
Lead for Education




Zachary Ranta, MD
Associate Director of Quality & Patient Safety




Jonathan Wing, MD
Procedure Service Lead




Thomas Heyne, MD
Lead for POCUS



Lauren Van Aken, PA-C
Lead for PA Student Education

Joseph R. Parseghian, PA-C
Lead for APC Onboarding

Teaching and Education

One of the core missions of Hospital Medicine is medical education. Within the Hospital Medicine Unit, we provide direct clinical teaching for medical students, physician assistant students and nurse practitioner students rotating through our medical service lines. In addition, many of our faculty attend on the Bigelow service with internal medicine residents. Our group is consistently recognized for high-quality education and robust learning experiences by our students.

We offer a robust program in faculty development for our physicians and advanced practice providers. Through a weekly lunch-time series, we offer inpatient-focused, highly applicable talks on clinical knowledge and skills from experts throughout Massachusetts General Hospital and beyond. Along with this, we offer a specialized program for new faculty throughout their first year in our group. The Hospital Medicine Unit is dedicated to helping all of our hospitalists explore their career interest through a peer-mentored Career Tracks program.

Recruitment

The Hospital Medicine Unit is continuously growing and seeking exceptional hospitalists to join our team. If you are an advanced practice provider interested in a position with us, please visit the Mass General careers page for the latest availability in positions. Interested physicians should forward their CV and cover letter to hospitalists@mgh.harvard.edu.

Transfer a Patient

If you are an outside clinician looking to transfer your patient to Mass General, please contact the MD Connect Transfer line at 1-877-637-3337 to facilitate the process.

Patient and Family Relations

Patient and Family Relations serves as a liaison between patients and Massachusetts General Hospital in their expressions of praise or concern so that moral, ethical, operational and care standards are upheld on behalf of our patients. Patient advocates look into and help resolve patient and family concerns. Advocates can also answer questions about confidentiality and assist in getting information about your care. If you’d like to connect with a patient advocate, please visit their website or call 617-726-3370.

Request Medical Records

Patients can receive copies of medical records, or request amendments to them, by submitting forms to the Mass General Brigham Medical Records Department.

Partners Central Credentialing Office (CCO)

For credentialing information, email PHSMDStaffSupport@partners.org.

MassHealth Enrollment

For enrollment information, contact David Stevens at DSTEVENS@PARTNERS.ORG.