Specializing in the management of hospitalized patients, a Hospitalist is an acute care physician who focuses on a patient’s hospital care from admission until discharge.  During that time the Hospitalist supervises a plan of coordinated care among physicians, nurses and support staff.  Hospitalists spend most of their professional time in the hospital and are well […]

Dr. Thoppil is a New Orleans native who graduated college from the University of New Orleans.  To pursue future mission work, he completed his medical degree from the Medical University of Lublin in Poland with his clinical rotations in New York. Following graduation, he returned to his home to help rebuild after Hurricane Katrina and complete his […]

Oscar Okyere, MD,  completed his internal medicine residency at Howard University. Dr. Okyere is part of the South Central Hospitalists team at South Central Regional Medical Center in Laurel.