Overview

The Division of Hospital Medicine provides superior quality care to hospitalized patients with integrity, while maintaining compassion for and trust with the communities we serve.

Our team is focused on fostering accountability, while providing education and mentoring to our medical students, residents and colleagues. We continue to strive to be one of the nation’s best academic centers by focusing on quality improvement initiatives, patient safety and research.

The division's aim is to become a national influencer in:

  • The improvement of standardized patient care.
  • The optimization of patient safety and clinical research, promoting efficient and cost-effective ways to refine the patient experience.
  • The innovation of health care, bettering the care of the communities we serve.
Nilda Franco, MD
Nilda Franco, MD
Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine