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Allina Medical Clinic Abbott Northwestern Hospitalists Service - a physician-referral inpatient care service

The Allina Medical Clinic (AMC) - Abbott Northwestern Hospitalist Service (AHS) is a group composed of internal medicine and pediatric physicians that provide in-hospital care to patients who are referred to us primarily from hospitals and clinics within the Twin Cities metro area, as well as in greater Minnesota and western Wisconsin. An AHS physician is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

The Abbott Northwestern Hospitalist Service provides personal, well-coordinated, quality care to a variety of patients who present with a single problem or with multiple complex medical problems.


About the hospitalists

Our physicians are board-certified with specialized clinical skills specific to the hospitalized patient and are comfortable in the tertiary care setting. They may serve as a patient’s primary attending or as a medical consultant. Regardless, they visit patients daily and are available for patient and family consultation when necessary.

Timely communication

Allina referring physicians are able to follow their patient’s hospital course in the electronic medical record by reviewing daily hospitalist progress notes. They receive telephone communication at the time of discharge and at any critical points that pertain to treatment planning and/or specialty consultations. Discharge summaries are completed the day of discharge.

Effective discharge planning

Case management teams evaluate all patients admitted to the service. They work together with the referring hospitalist physician, specialists involved with the case, and the patient’s loved ones to develop an effective care/discharge plan. They also assist in coordinating the services needed after the patient returns to their home community.

Services we provide

  • Preoperative & postoperative medical consultation
  • Critical care co-management in cardiac, neurosurgical, surgical, and medical intensive care units
  • Care of all patients without a primary care physician admitted through the ED
  • Care of all patients with a primary care physician without ANWH privileges admitted through the ED
  • Direct admission of patients from regional outpatient clinics
  • Direct admission of patients transferred from referring hospitals in and around Minnesota
  • Medical coverage of the ANWH overnight observation unit (CDART)
  • Champion hospital-wide quality/safety initiatives

Contact us

The following is the stepwise process that works best for direct admissions and transfers to our hospitalist service.

For regional outpatient Allina medical clinics

  1. Identify the patient who requires direct admission (vs. patients that would benefit from more timely evaluation through the Emergency Department)
  2. Clinic staff should call the AMC-AHS answering service at 612-863-7560 and provide the following information: patient name, date of birth, primary clinic physician and medical information.
  3. Either our nurse care coordinator of the AMC-AHS service or our chief physician of the day will subsequently receive the patient information from the answering service and forward it on to the physician who will be admitting the patient.
  4. The hospitalist will then call the clinic in order to speak with the clinic physician about the patient’s condition.
  5. Clinic staff should then call patient placement at 612-863-3535 to provide patient information, type of hospital bed required, and the name of the AMC-AHS physician who will admit the patient.

For referring hospitals and non-Allina medical clinics

Call Physician to Physician (P to P) at 612-262-3031 to speak directly with our chief hospitalist physician of the day. The P to P service will assist in making all of the arrangements for the patient’s transfer.

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