Hospitalists

A team of physicians known as “hospitalists” now offer round-the-clock care to SVH patients whose primary care providers request the service. This is part of a national trend to have these specialists providing acute care to hospital patients.

Working in conjunction with a patient’s primary care physician, hospitalists use their training and experience to enhance the quality and efficiency of inpatients care. A hospitalist is a doctor who specializes in the care of patients who are in the hospital. Often internal medicine physicians, they are highly skilled in taking care of those patients who are most ill and require acute care in a hospital. As needed, the hospitalist will order tests, prescribe medications and recommend special therapies for you.

After discharge, the patient returns to their primary care physician for follow-up visits and care.
 

Meet the hospitalists:

Bonita K. Baker, MD, is the Medical Director of the Hospitalist Program at Skagit Valley Hospital. She is a graduate of Creighton University School of Medicine and served her residency and a Fellowship at University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Dr. Baker is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care.

 

Damanjeet Chugh, MD, is a graduate of Punjabi University in India. He served his internal medicine residency and a fellowship in geriatric medicine at Detroit Medical Center.

Dmitry Feldman, DO, joined the team of hospitalists caring for patients at Skagit Valley Hospital in September 2009. A native of Lynnwood, Dr. Feldman graduated from the University of Washington and Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in California. He performed an osteopathic residency in internal medicine at Valley Hospital Medical Center in Las Vegas.

Dr. Malik F. Fuimaono, M.D., was born in California. He graduated from St. George's University School of Medicine in West Indies. He completed his residency at St. Michael's Hospital at Seton Hall University.

Halim Hanna, MD, is a graduate of Damascus University in Syria and served his residency at Chicago Medical School and Fellowship at University of Virginia School Medicine. He is board certified in the specialty of Pulmonary Disease.

David Hoeft MD, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Medical School. He served his residency at Blodgett Memorial Medical Center and St. Mary’s Medical Center in Grand Rapids, Mich. He practiced Internal Medicine in Minnesota and Alaska for 18 years and previously served as a hospitalist at Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee.

Ajith Kumar, MD, is a graduate of Mysore Medical College in India and served his residency at Carney Hospital in New England and a Fellowship at Rhode Island Hospital. Dr. Kumar partners with Dr. Onder Orgul to provide nephrology services at the Kidney & Hypertension Clinic in Mount Vernon.

Onder Orgul, MD, is a graduate of Hacettepe University in Turkey. He served his residency at State University of New York at Buffalo and a Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Orgul partners with Dr. Ajith J. Kumar to provide nephrology services at the Kidney & Hypertension Clinic in Mount Vernon.

Randall S. Randhawa, MD, is board certified in Internal Medicine and has been a full time hospitalist since January 1, 2009. He moved to Washington from Ann Arbor Michigan. He completed his Internal Medicine training at Saint Joseph Mercy hospital in Ann Arbor where he was selected to be a chief resident. His interests are in critical care hospital medicine and endocrinology.

Geoffrey Spielmann MD, completed his residency in internal medicine at Mulmonider Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1986 and practiced at North Cascade Internal Medicine, a division of the Skagit Valley Medical Center, before becoming a full-time hospitalist. He has a special interest in endocrinology.

Tianna Tsitsis, MD, is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. She served her residency in internal medicine at McGraw Medical Center at Northwestern University in Chicago. Dr. Tsitsis previously worked as an internal medicine physician with Skagit Valley Medical Center before becoming a hospitalist.