Hospitalist Medicine
Katinka Kersten, MD Physician, Hospitalist
Sayonara Mato, MD Physician, Hospitalist
Rashmi Srivastava, MD Physician, Hospitalist
Carla Dyer, MD Physician, Hospitalist
Stephanie Yoakum Staff (573) 882-6544
    After hours, please call (573) 882-4141 and ask for the physician or the physician on call to be paged.

Hospitalists are doctors whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients.  Their activities include patient care, teaching, research and leadership related to hospital care.  Hospital medicine is a specialty organized around a site of care (the hospital) rather than an organ (like cardiology), a disease (like oncology), or a patient's age (like pediatrics).  However, unlike medical specialists in the emergency department or critical care units, hospitalists help manage patients through the continuum of hospital care.