Night Hospitalist Service (NHS)

Esther Hsiang, MD, MBA
Medical Director of Night Hospitalist Services

The Night Hospitalist Service (NHS) provides direct care to patients and supervises the patient care of internal medicine resident physicians overnight primarily at the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center on the Parnassus Heights Campus.

Four night hospitalists are in-house with specified roles and responsibilities related to Hospital Medicine patients, including: triaging new admissions requests, admitting and cross-covering hospitalized patients, providing medicine consults to patients on other clinical services, and supervising patients cared for by the internal medicine resident physicians. The hospitalists provide clinical care for 12-hour shifts overnight and sign out to the daytime direct care hospitalist teams and resident physician teams in the morning. 

In addition to the NHS hospitalists, the night team at Parnassus Moffitt-Long Hospital consists of resident physicians and subspecialty night hospitalists (e.g. Cardiac Hospitalist Services hospitalists, Heme-BMT hospitalists). NHS hospitalists may also work nocturnal shifts on the Mount Zion Medical Service, the Mission Bay Medical Service, and the St. Mary’s Medical Service.

Please contact Esther Hsiang at [email protected] for any questions.