Short Stay Unit
Approximately 2300 patients per year with common, readily diagnosed illnesses, e.g. asthma, bronchiolitis, dehydration, or cellulitis are admitted to the Short Stay Unit. This unique unit uses evidence based clinical path guidelines, bedside charting, collaborative physician-nurse rounds, and supervision by senior Emergency Medicine attending to decrease the length of stay while improving the quality of care for these patients.
The Children's Hospital Inpatient Services (CHIPS)
The Children's Hospital Inpatient Service (CHIPS) was created in 1998 and is one of the oldest pediatric hospitalist programs in the country. CHIPS provides full-time inpatient general pediatric coverage for community physicians who prefer to have a Children's Hospital Boston attending physician care for their patients while they are hospitalized at Children's.
CHIPS is staffed by pediatric hospitalists who provide referring physicians with timely updates on their patients and are available by page to discuss patient issues. Furthermore, all of the pediatric subspecialists at Children's are available for consultations. The CHIPS program is committed to outstanding clinical care of the hospitalized general pediatric patient, education of our housestaff and medical students, performing clinical research in the new field of pediatric hospital medicine and communication with our referring providers. Since its inception, the patient volume on this service has steadily grown, and now accounts for more than 30 percent of the admissions to the Department of Medicine.
Nationally, the CHIPS program is one of the true leaders in the pediatric hospitalist movement as its members are currently in the process of editing the definitive textbook on pediatric hospital medicine as well as holding key leadership positions with the Society of Hospital Medicine, the Ambulatory Pediatric Association and the PRIS (Pediatric Research in the Inpatient Setting) Network. It is also home to the first Fellowship in Pediatric Hospital Medicine in the country. To learn more about CHIPS, please contact Vincent Chiang, MD, Chief of Inpatient Services, at 617-355-7584.
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