About Us
The Leader in urban, rural and CAH Hospitalist Programs.
Hospital Care Group is leading the way in providing innovative hospital medicine solutions to urban, rural, and critical access hospitals. Established in 2012, Hospital Care Group has moved quickly to become a premier provider of hospital medicine services. HCG is physician-owned, physician-led, and physician-run. At the core of our company culture is a philosophy of "the less bureaucracy, the better". We are large enough to serve any size hospital, yet small and nimble enough to act fast and move fast.
Mission
Our Mission
To bring high-quality, cost-effective hospital medicine solutions to urban, rural, and critical access hospitals.
Our Vision
To transform the way hospitals deliver inpatient care to their patients.
Our Core Values
- Outstanding Quality.
- Remarkable Service.
- Sustained Excellence.
- Constant Innovation.
- Exceptional Teamwork.
History
A Market Leader Established in 2012.
Dr. Khurrum Shaikh becomes Hospitalist Program Medical Director for the Parkview Health System, the leading hospital system in Fort Wayne, Indiana. At Parkview, Dr. Shaikh takes the hospitalist program from startup and builds it into a significant hospitalist service, treating over 120 inpatients per day at two large hospitals.
Dr. Shaikh sees that although hospitalist programs were successful and prevalent in large hospitals and urban areas, smaller community hospitals, and critical access hospitals were in dire need of finding solutions.
Dr. Shaikh teams up with Mark Drapala, a hospital executive who also saw, from the first-hand experience, the difficulty smaller hospitals had implementing high-quality, cost-effective hospitalist programs.
Together, Dr. Shaikh and Mr. Drapala launched the Hospital Care Group, P.C. (HCG), with the mission of providing high-quality, high-value hospital medicine solutions to hospitals in need. Almost immediately, Hospital Care Group contracts with its first client — Cameron Memorial Community Hospital in Angola, Indiana, and Community Memorial Hospital in Hicksville, Ohio. At Cameron, HCG pioneers a tiered-pricing payment structure.
HCG pioneers a Transitional Hospitalist Program at Mercy Defiance Clinic in Defiance, Ohio.
HCG pioneers a Joint Hospitalist Program with Fulton County Hospital in Wauseon, Ohio.
HCG contracts with its first urban hospital, Dupont Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, part of the Lutheran Health Network.
HCG establishes a Joint Hospitalist Program with Van Wert County Hospital in Van Wert, Ohio.
HCG implements Ingenious Med's mobile charge capture system to create a seamless billing system from the bedside to the payor.
HCG contracts with Mercer Health in Coldwater, Ohio, to establish Mercer's first hospitalist program.
HCG contracts with St. Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana. St. Joe's will be HCG's largest program, with the hospitalist program seeing over 30 patients per day.
HCG contracts with Adams Memorial Hospital in Decatur, Indiana.
Wood County Hospital becomes HCG's tenth hospitalist program in Bowling Green, Ohio.
HCG contracts with Bluffton Regional Medical Center in Bluffton, Indiana.
HCG and Wayne HealthCare in Greenville, OH agree to have HCG take over their hospitalist program starting October 1, 2017.
HCG assumes responsibility for the adult inpatient psychiatric service and Generations inpatient unit at St. Joseph Hospital, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
HCG employs two inpatient Psychiatrists to provide services at St. Joseph Hospital's Adult Psychiatric Unit.
HCG adds a nighttime NP service to Fulton County Hospital in Wauseon, OH.
HCG provides nighttime Psych NP support to Parkview Behavioral Health (PBH).
HCG moves into its new corporate office in Fort Wayne, IN.
HCG goes live with its state-of-the-art billing system, partnering with Athena Health.
HCG starts an Inpatient Psychiatric Consult service with Lutheran Health.
HCG partners with Lutheran Health and provides outpatient clinic space for LHN's primary care physician office.
HCG partners with Acadia Health to provide medical and psychiatric professional staff at Acadia's new 125-bed Maple Heights Behavioral Health Hospital in Fort Wayne, IN.
HCG takes over the Hospitalist service at Wilson Health in Sidney, Ohio.
Our Leadership
Committed & Passionate Experts.
Khurrum Shaikh, M.D.
President and Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Shaikh is the former Medical Director of the Parkview Regional Medical Center's Hospitalist Program in Fort Wayne, IN. Dr. Shaikh started the Parkview Program in 2007 and was the key driver in building it into a major hospitalist service seeing over 120 patients per day at two large hospitals. Dr. Shaikh is board-certified in Internal Medicine and completed his residency at the Medical College of Ohio. Dr. Shaikh holds a firm belief that high-quality, comprehensive hospital medicine should not be exclusive to large hospitals and tertiary centers.
Mark Drapala, MHSA
Chief Executive Officer
Mark Drapala has over 35 years of executive leadership experience at hospitals in both the Midwest and West Coast. He has been administratively responsible for hospitalist programs since 2007 and has implemented programs for both large and small hospitals. Mark received his Master's degree from the University of Michigan. Mark knows it takes real "value-based" innovation to meet the unique needs of hospitals and provide effective inpatient programs in a cost-effective way.
Administrative Team
HCG Clients
Current Hospital Clients