Cogent’s leaders have helped shape the specialty of hospital medicine over the past 15 years and continue to shape health policy in Washington today.

As evidenced by the roles they play with the Society of Hospital Medicine and other professional societies, our leaders are widely recognized and respected as industry thought leaders and visionaries. Their engagement at such a prominent level provides Cogent and our hospital partners with a solid foundation for continuous improvement and innovation.

Perhaps more importantly, on a practical level, we expect every Cogent employee and physician to possess and display solid organizational and clinical leadership skills. But we don’t expect them to do it alone. That is why every Cogent employee has access to rigorous, ongoing training at our dedicated educational facility Cogent Academy.

We bring to our hospital partners a system to deliver excellent patient care, to offer the most valuable inpatient management services in the industry and to continually innovate in all we do.

We understand deploying a hospital medicine program is an extremely complex process, and that no two hospitals have the same inpatient management needs. For that reason, we strive to become a true partner with our hospital clients. We listen, we ask questions and we tailor our services to match your specific needs, so that the solution we find is, in fact, your solution.

Our national footprint allows us to locally pilot new service lines, new methods and implement new clinical evidence. From this base of creativity and improvement, we can spread success across the country and shamelessly steal our own ideas.

The ability to meet patient care needs, provide safe and effective care, and ensure the most appropriate use of resources drives Cogent’s relentless focus on efficiency.

From the outset of every partnership, we carefully align our services with each hospital’s clinical, quality, financial and regulatory goals. We believe so strongly in this alignment that much of Cogent’s compensation is based on our ability to incrementally achieve these goals.  To measure our collaborative success, we continuously capture and analyze more than 40 real-time data sources, giving us the ability to assess performance and fine-tune our program based on each hospital’s specific needs.