Each year the Division provides inpatient care to more than 4,000 patients.  While Division physicians offer comprehensive patient care, the division focuses efforts with special expertise in the following areas: 

• Inpatient Medicine. Currently the eight (four teaching and four nonteaching) general medicine services are staffed by the Division of  General Internal Medicine, the Division of Hospital Medicine, and the Department of Primary Care. The hospitalist program, originally started in 2000 under the leadership of  division faculty,  continues to foment  the evidence-based quality care of complex inpatients with the safe and responsible utilization of resources.  The nonteaching services are staffed by physicians whose concentration is hospital medicine and now from the Division of Hospital Medicine.  
• Peri-operative Medicine. Improvement in the peri-operative care of medically complex patients remains a priority of the division. Through the co-management and consultative services, since 2005 the general internal medicine faculty with additional proficiencies in perioperative and consultative medicine provide medical risk assessment and care to surgical and rehabilitation medicine patients helping manage their complicated medical problems.  These programs are expanding yearly.
• Access to Care.  These clinics, staffed by primary care physicians as well as some subspecialists from multiple departments, provide care to the underserved and uninsured.  From the division, Dr Matthew Fitz contributes his time to this effort.
• Expertise in medical ethics and palliative care and hospice are provided by Dr. Theresa Kristopaitis.  Since July 2011 faculty from both the Division of  General Internal Medicine and Hospital Medicine participate in the newly reorganized and expanded Palliative Care service providing support to LUMC patients and their physicians.
• Transition of care. The transition clinic was developed in 2003 with the goals of streamlining  the transition of patient care to the outpatient setting after hospitalization,  and improving post hospitalization outcomes, in particular for those complex patients vulnerable to readmission. 

 QUALITY INITIATIVES

In keeping with the institution’s priority of providing safe, cost-effective, evidence-based medical diagnosis and treatment, the Division of General Medicine has been instrumental in the development and follow-through of major quality improvement initiatives including:

Contact Us
To schedule an appointment, please contact Loyola Central Scheduling at (708) 216-8563. To contact the Division of General Internal Medicine administration, please call (708) 216-8602. A list of our physicians can be found here.